On 24th May I spoke to the Biodiversity Festival - it was moderated over a Zoom call and live streamed to Youtube. You can watch HERE. I was talking about an often overlooked aspect of glacier melting that ties in very tightly with the theme of biodiversity. Here's a transcript: We do not usually think … Continue reading Biodiversity Day Talk: Ice Alive
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Glacier retreat and Meta-communities
Cryoconite has been studied intensively, but we have only touched upon the redeposition of incumbent microbes to other glacial zones - something we expect to happen more as the climate continues to warm. Whether microbes that fix and respire carbon on glacier surfaces continue to do so when they are washed elsewhere has been pondered but … Continue reading Glacier retreat and Meta-communities
To The Poles 