Ground-penetrating radar observations of enhanced biological activity in a sandbox reactor

Funding for this project was through the National Science Foundation CAREER grant 0134545 awarded to J.F. Devlin and NSF EAR/IF-0345445 for acquisition of GPR instrumentation awarded to G. Tsoflias. The opinions, findings, and recommendations of this study are the views the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the National Science Foundation. We would like to thank Mike McGlashan, Kwan Yee Cheng, Kelly Peterson, Lindsay Mayer, and Breanna Huff for assistance with this project. We also thank two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments that led to the improvement of this manuscript.

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