Subglacial lakes and their changing role in a warming climate

SJ Livingstone, Y Li, A Rutishauser… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Subglacial lakes are repositories of ancient climate conditions, provide habitats for life and
modulate ice flow, basal hydrology, biogeochemical fluxes and geomorphic activity. In this …

Biosignature preservation and detection in Mars analog environments

LE Hays, HV Graham, DJ Des Marais, EM Hausrath… - Astrobiology, 2017 - liebertpub.com
This review of material relevant to the Conference on Biosignature Preservation and
Detection in Mars Analog Environments summarizes the meeting materials and discussions …

Geological and geochemical controls on subsurface microbial life in the Samail Ophiolite, Oman

KR Rempfert, HM Miller, N Bompard, D Nothaft… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Microbial abundance and diversity in deep subsurface environments is dependent upon the
availability of energy and carbon. However, supplies of oxidants and reductants capable of …

Organic matter stability and lability in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems: a chemical and microbial perspective

V Verrone, A Gupta, AE Laloo, RK Dubey… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems have specific carbon fingerprints and sequestration
potential, due to the intrinsic properties of the organic matter (OM), mineral content …

Microbial ecology of the deep terrestrial subsurface

RC Beaver, JD Neufeld - The ISME Journal, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The terrestrial subsurface hosts microbial communities that, collectively, are predicted to
comprise as many microbial cells as global surface soils. Although initially thought to be …

High prevalence of antibiotic-resistant and metal-tolerant cultivable bacteria in remote glacier environment

W Sajjad, B Ali, H Niu, N Ilahi, M Rafiq, A Bahadur… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Studies of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) have mainly originated from anthropic-
influenced environments, with limited information from pristine environments. Remote cold …

Antarctic geothermal heat flow and its implications for tectonics and ice sheets

AM Reading, T Stål, JA Halpin, M Lösing… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Geothermal heat flow (GHF) is an elusive physical property, yet it can reveal past and
present plate tectonic processes. In Antarctica, GHF has further consequences in predicting …

Exploration of deep terrestrial subsurface microbiome in Late Cretaceous Deccan traps and underlying Archean basement, India

A Dutta, S Dutta Gupta, A Gupta, J Sarkar, S Roy… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Scientific deep drilling at Koyna, western India provides a unique opportunity to explore
microbial life within deep biosphere hosted by~ 65 Myr old Deccan basalt and Archaean …

Isolation and Characterization of Electrochemically Active Subsurface Delftia and Azonexus Species

Y Jangir, S French, LM Momper, DP Moser… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Continental subsurface environments can present significant energetic challenges to the
resident microorganisms. While these environments are geologically diverse, potentially …

Low energy subsurface environments as extraterrestrial analogs

RM Jones, JM Goordial, BN Orcutt - Frontiers in microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Earth's subsurface is often isolated from phototrophic energy sources and characterized by
chemotrophic modes of life. These environments are often oligotrophic and limited in …