150 years of Yellowstone hot spring research: Biogeosciences and the past, present, and future of studying ‘warm little ponds’

Jeff R Havig1, Martin Julian Van Kranendonk2, Kathleen Campbell3, Trinity L Hamilton4, Tara Djokic5, Andrew Gangidine1, David Deamer6 and Bruce Frederick Damer7, (1)University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati, OH, United States, (2)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (3)University of Auckland, School of Environment, Auckland, New Zealand, (4)The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, United States, (5)Australian Centre for Astrobiology, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia, (6)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (7)University of California Santa Cruz, Boulder Creek, CA, United States