New paper on controls of microbial assemblages in Greenland glacial meltwaters

New paper on controls of microbial assemblages in Greenland glacial meltwaters

Glacial meltwater drains into proglacial rivers where it interacts with the surrounding landscape, collecting microbial cells as it travels downstream. Characterizing the composition of the…

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Philip Pika joins CryoEco

Philip Pika joins CryoEco

We are happy to announce Philip Pika is joining our team to work on the project MARCH4G as a postdoctoral research assistant. Philip did his…

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2022 field work is done

2022 field work is done

This summer we travelled to Greenland to finish the first phase of the MARCH4G project. We returned to Upernavik in NW Greenland to visit sites…

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Postdoc position in glacial biogeochemical modelling

Postdoc position in glacial biogeochemical modelling

is available from July 2022 in our team at the Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Czechia. We are seeking a…

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New hypothesis paper proposing glacial habitats as a plant terrestrialisation cradle

New hypothesis paper proposing glacial habitats as a plant terrestrialisation cradle

In a new hypothesis paper published in Frontiers in Plant Science Jakub Žárský and his coauthors use current glacial ecology knowledge to tackle the puzzle…

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New paper reveals biogeochemical legacy of Arctic subglacial sediments exposed by glacier retreat

New paper reveals biogeochemical legacy of Arctic subglacial sediments exposed by glacier retreat

In a new paper published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles and led by Petra Vinšová, we reveal the biogeochemical legacy of subglacial sediments exposed by retreating…

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PhD and postdoc positions available at Charles University in Prague

PhD and postdoc positions available at Charles University in Prague

Tyler Kohler, a former member of CryoEco and currently a Postdoc at EPFL in Switzerland, has recently been awarded a grant from the Primus Research…

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2021 field work is done

2021 field work is done

After the 2020 covid break, we travelled to Greenland again in 2021 to conduct field work for two projects: GrISMEME and MARCH4G. In July, the…

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New paper on the role of glaciers in silicon cycling

New paper on the role of glaciers in silicon cycling

A new paper, led by Jade Hatton, has been published in Geochemical Perspectives Letters, detailing how physical crushing could be key to explain subglacial silicon…

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New paper on mercury export from the Greenland ice sheet

New paper on mercury export from the Greenland ice sheet

A new paper, led by Jon Hawkings from Florida State University and published in Nature Geoscience, shows very high concentrations of the toxic element mercury…

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