Culturable Bacterial Diversity from the Basaltic Subsurface of the Young Volcanic Island of Surtsey, Iceland

The drilling operation was funded by International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) through the Surtsey Underwater volcanic System for Thermophiles, Alteration processes and INnovative Concretes (SUSTAIN) project (led by M.D. Jackson). This research was funded by the Icelandic Research Fund (IRF, RANNÍS) through the grant of excellence IceSUSTAIN, number 163083-051 (led by M.T. Gudmundsson and V.Þ. Marteinsson), and the doctoral student grant ELiBSS, number 206582-051 (led by P. Bergsten).Peer reviewe