I am extremely grateful to Angelo Camerlenghi, Peter Barker, and the Scientific Party of Leg 178 for their enthusiastic support of the Palmer Deep objectives. I also wish to thank the Bremen Core Repository staff and the sampling party including Tobias Moerz, Lisa Osterman, Jennifer Pike, Rob Dunbar, Amy Leventer, Fiona Taylor, Charlotte Sjunneskog, and Stefanie Brachfeld. This research used samples and/or data provided by the ODP. ODP is sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and participating countries under management of Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI), Inc. Funding for this research was provided by a JOI/USSSP postcruise award to Hamilton College and a National Science Foundation award OPP-9615053.