Birgit Sattler is a biologist here in Innsbruck studying the microbial life of Alpine glaciers with her team in a project called Black Ice. I’m trying to help them out a bit by running our massive freezer room for some experiments on the growth of algae in the Hintertux glacier show caves … but so far the pesky device has failed us and cooked the samples instead. Anyway here is their teaser for the Black Ice project:
Microbial life on glaciers is a pretty hot topic these days with numerous activities on Greenland such as the Black and Bloom project and well-publicized work by researchers such as Arwyn Edwards and Joseph Cook and colleagues.
Here is Joseph Cooks video about his work as a Rolex Award for Enterprise Laureate: