(MSc, BSc University of South Bohemia; PhD University of Bristol)

I am interested in the microbial ecology and biogeochemistry of cryospheric ecosystems (glaciers and ice sheets in particular), with an emphasis on carbon and nutrient cycling, diversity, distribution and dispersal of microorganisms, and large scale effects of microbial communities on glacial systems.

You can email me at marek.stibal@natur.cuni.cz.

Selected Publications

Hatton JE, Stehrer-Polášková A, Píka PA, Garnett MH, Klímová P, Wentzel LCP, Žárský JD, Trubač J, Arndt S, Hubbard A, Yde JC, Hawkings JR, Doting EL, Murphy JG, Lamarche-Gagnon G, Wadham JL, Sapper SE, Christiansen JR, Jorgensen CJ, Stibal M (2026) Mid-Holocene retreat of the Greenland Ice Sheet indicated by subglacial methane release Nature Geoscience 19:699–705 doi:10.1038/s41561-026-01976-5

Hawkings JR, Bradley JA, Doting EL, Hassan N, Hendry KR, Holt AD, Hood E, Spencer RGM, Stibal M, Tranter M, Venturelli RA, Wadham JL, Bhatia MP (2026) Glacier biogeochemical cycling and downstream impacts. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 7:124–143 doi:10.1038/s43017-025-00751-1

Stibal M, Bradley JA, Edwards A, Hotaling S, Zawierucha K, Rosvold J, Lutz S, Cameron KA, Mikucki JA, Kohler TJ, Šabacká M, Anesio AM (2020) Glacial ecosystems are essential to understanding biodiversity responses to glacier retreat. Nature Ecology and Evolution 4:686–687 doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1163-0

Lamarche-Gagnon G, Wadham JL, Sherwood Lollar B, Arndt S, Fietzek P, Beaton AD, Tedstone AJ, Telling J, Bagshaw EA, Hawkings JR, Kohler TJ, Zarsky JD, Mowlem MC, Anesio AM, Stibal M (2019) Greenland melt drives continuous export of methane from the ice-sheet bed. Nature 565:73–77 doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0800-0

Full list of publications here.