Life on ice and bioalbedo

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:

About lindsey

Environmental scientist. I am glaciologist specialising in glacier-climate interactions to better understand the climate system. The point of this is to understand how glaciated envionments might change in the future - how the glaciers will respond and what the impact on associated water resources and hazard potential will be.
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