About the Authors

Carole L. Palmer

Affiliation The Information School, University of Washington, Mary Gates Hall, Suite. 370 Seattle, Washington United States of America

Andrea K. Thomer

thomer2@illinois.edu

Affiliation School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois United States of America

Karen S. Baker

Affiliation School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois United States of America

Karen M. Wickett

Affiliation School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, 1616 Guadalupe Suite #5.202, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Christie L. Hendrix

Affiliation Yellowstone Center for Resources, Yellowstone National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming United States of America

Ann Rodman

Affiliation Yellowstone Center for Resources, Yellowstone National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming United States of America

Stacey Sigler

Affiliation Yellowstone Center for Resources, Yellowstone National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming United States of America

Bruce W. Fouke

Affiliations Department of Geology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 601 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, Illinois United States of America, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1206 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, Illinois United States of America, Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2613 Institute for Genomic Biology, 1206 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, Illinois United States of America, Thermal Biology Institute, Montana State University, Leon Johnson Hall, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CLP BWF AKT KSB KMW AR. Data curation: AKT KSB KMW. Formal analysis: CLP AKT KSB KMW CLH AR SS BWF. Funding acquisition: CLP AR BWF. Investigation: CLP AKT KSB KMW BWF. Methodology: AKT CLP KSB KMW. Project administration: AKT CLP BWF. Resources: BWF SS CLH AR CLP. Supervision: CLP BWF. Visualization: AKT KMW. Writing – original draft: AKT CLP BWF. Writing – review & editing: AKT CLP KMW.