Colors of Life

Yellowstone

This project is about the colorful thermophilic bacteria and algae living in the water of the hot springs and geysers in Yellowstone National Park. The park's thermal features lie in the only undisturbed geyser basins left in the world. Nowhere else can you find the array or number of geysers, hot springs, mud pots, and fumaroles found in Yellowstone. More than 75% of the world's geysers, including the largest, are there in seven major basins.