Sentences with phrase «lake ice microbial»
Lake ice microbial communities, called LIMCOs as a counterpart to the already well described sea ice microbial communities (SIMCOs), are highly active and live within alternating layers of slush and white ice.
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But the team hopes the Lake Whillans microbial community can help it understand so - called extremophile organisms that can exist in the extreme dark and cold, and how such microbes might also be affecting the chemistry of the ice itself.
This scientific trip will lead us to the Canadian High Arctic and North Pole, to study (lake) ice microbial communities in high arctic lakes and ice fields.
In 1996, right at the end of my PhD, I was invited by John C. Priscu of Montana State University in Bozeman MSU to participate in his project studying ice microbial communities in antarctic lakes.
«If there is microbial life in these lakes, it has been under ice for a very long time, so it must have evolved in isolation.
It's dark, it's cold, it's largely cut off from the outside world, but the lake water under a half - mile of ice in Antarctica is teeming with microbial life.
But a lake 800 meters below the West Antarctic ice sheet is brimming with microbial life.