Hello Seoul! Make sure to meet Cryomics postdoc Anne-Lise Ducluzeau at poster #109A in Session PS23 – Biodiversity, adaptation and interactions in extreme environments. Also don’t miss Jeff Bowman‘s talk on Friday at 2:30 in CS40: Biodiversity, adaptation and interactions in extreme — “Increased rates of horizontal gene transfer in psychrophilic genomes and potential links […]

Click through to check out my latest adventure: the Greenland Ice Microbiome Project!

This video shows the disturbing truth hidden in the data, which is that while Arctic sea ice extent (the area of ocean covered by ice) has been declining at 13% per decade (in summer, 3% in winter), the volume and age of the ice have been declining more rapidly. Whereas in 1987 there were extensive […]

Barrow, Alaska January 17, 2014 -34°C (-30°F), clear, no wind WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM AKST SATURDAY… A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR WIND CHILL AND LOCAL BLIZZARD CONDITIONS REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 6 PM AKST SATURDAY. * WIND CHILL…TO 65 BELOW. […]

Barrow, Alaska January 16, 2014 -32°C (-26°F), clear, light wind Sometimes it seems like 90% of my job is waiting for ice to melt. And the other 10% is me taking selfies of my epic beard-cicles. We measured the temperature of this ice every 10 cm (4 in) in the field and then cut it […]