Links of interest:

2005 Summer Teachers Seminar http://360.yahoo.com/profile-ktdF2NQ8b696tlCJCaqhsd8l

The HaloEd Project: http://zdna2.umbi.umd.edu/~haloed/

Halophile genomes: http://zdna2.umbi.umd.edu/~haloweb/

California's Pink Salt Lakes: http://waynesword.palomar.edu/plsept98.htm

The salt industry: http://www.saltinstitute.org/3.html#

Oldest Living Microbes: http://www.microbe.org/microbes/oldest.asp