{"id":115684,"date":"2025-11-19T11:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=115684"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:30:22","slug":"lunchtime-discovery-intraterrestrials-discovering-the-strangest-life-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/lunchtime-discovery-intraterrestrials-discovering-the-strangest-life-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunchtime Discovery: Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-115685 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Email-Header_Dec.-3.jpg\" alt=\"graphic with text &quot;Lunchtime Discovery Series&quot; title on top with four photos below of Karen G. LLoyd, a photo of a woman standing on a snow covered landscape with snowmobiles, a book cover titled Intraterrestrials, and a photo of a submersible named Alvin on a boat\" width=\"1847\" height=\"1008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Email-Header_Dec.-3.jpg 1847w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Email-Header_Dec.-3-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Email-Header_Dec.-3-1024x559.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Email-Header_Dec.-3-500x273.jpg 500w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Email-Header_Dec.-3-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Email-Header_Dec.-3-1536x838.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1847px) 100vw, 1847px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/live\/9NENl6ykHhw?feature=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the livestream on YouTube Live<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Life thrives in the deepest, darkest recesses of Earth&#8217;s crust-from methane seeps in the ocean floor to the highest reaches of Arctic permafrost-and it is unlike anything seen on the surface. Karen Lloyd shares what scientists are learning about these strange types of microbial life-and how research expeditions to some of the most extreme locales on the planet can tell us about the prospects for finding life on other planets-and the future of life on our own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Karen G. Lloyd, Wrigley Professor of Earth Sciences, and Marine and Environmental Biology, University of Southern California<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Live Presentation hosted by NC Museum of Natural Sciences\u2019 SECU Daily Planet Curator Chris Smith and the NC Department of Environmental Quality Office of Environmental Education and Public Affairs staff. Brought to you by the NC DEQ Office of Environmental Education and Public Affairs and the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe class=\"embed-responsive-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9NENl6ykHhw?si=xHZuAM2VuSRqfyQt\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the livestream on YouTube Live. Life thrives in the deepest, darkest recesses of Earth&#8217;s crust-from methane seeps in the ocean floor to the highest reaches of Arctic permafrost-and it is unlike anything seen on the surface. Karen Lloyd shares what scientists are learning about these strange types of microbial life-and how research expeditions to&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/lunchtime-discovery-intraterrestrials-discovering-the-strangest-life-on-earth\/\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[3,13,6,14,7,15,170,8,173],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/115684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/115684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115689,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/115684\/revisions\/115689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115684"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=115684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}