Oregon State University – Cascades’ Science Pubs are where you’ll meet OSU’s leading researchers and delve into their fascinating worlds. In recent decades researchers have discovered an underworld teeming with life deep beneath the surface of the Earth. Join OSU professor and microbiologist Frederick “Rick” Colwell when he sheds light on microbes – many of them zombie-like in appearance — that live hundreds of meters below our feet, and the role they play in the underground biosphere