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    Sea Ice Microbial Communities (SIMCO) refer to groups of microorganisms living within and at the interfaces of sea ice at the poles. The ice matrix they...
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    carbon. Sea ice microbial communities (SIMCO) refer to groups of microorganisms living within and at the interfaces of sea ice at the poles. The ice matrix...
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    to grab for any person who falls through. Polar ice cap Sea ice Sea ice microbial communities Frazil ice Cooper, Donald C. (2005). Fundamentals of Search...
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  • Ice algae are any of the various types of algal communities found in annual and multi-year sea, and terrestrial lake ice or glacier ice. On sea ice in...
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  • Riff Raff (rapper) (born Horst Simco; 1982), American rapper Sea ice microbial communities (SIMCO) Simco, a European real estate company acquired by Gecina...
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    Earth hypothesis) was entirely frozen over. Ice-covered oceans might have been the only refugium for microbial ecosystems when the Earth apparently was covered...
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    bacterioplankton community. Microbial communities in these systems are shaped by deterministic processes, enhancing host function, while free-living communities are...
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  • as historical events that can leave lasting signatures on microbial communities. Microbial biogeographic patterns are often similar to those of macro-organisms...
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    defined more precisely in 1988 by Whipps et al. as "a characteristic microbial community occupying a reasonably well-defined habitat which has distinct physio-chemical...
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    commonly found below polar sea ice and in the deep ocean. This below-sea ice forms through a process called brine rejection. For deep-sea brine pools, salt is...
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    Airborne microbial communities play significant roles in public health and meteorological processes, so it is important to understand how these communities are...
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    United States Antarctic Program (USAP) field team leader for Sea Ice Microbial Communities (SIMCO) studies in McMurdo Sound, 1980–86, 1988, 1989; chief...
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  • temperature change, which means that microbial life within brine pockets must be flexible to environmental change. As sea ice forms, the water freezes into a...
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    the sea floor. Putative "burrows" dating as far back as 1,100 million years may have been made by animals that fed on the undersides of microbial mats...
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    growth processes – Sea ice microbial communities – Groups of microorganisms living within and at the interfaces of sea ice Sea ice thickness – Stamukha...
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    October 2023). "Methylotrophic Communities Associated with a Greenland Ice Sheet Methane Release Hotspot". Microbial Ecology. 86 (4): 3057–3067. Bibcode:2023MicEc...
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    the existence of uniquely adapted microbial communities, high rates of biogeochemical and physical weathering in ice sheets, and storage and cycling of...
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  • figure. Sea ice Sea ice microbial communities Sea ice emissivity modeling Sea ice growth processes Sea ice concentration Sea ice thickness Sea ice physics...
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  • where Ediacaran organisms were preserved as casts on the surface of microbial mats. All but the smallest fraction of the fossil record consists of the...
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    Arctic has contributed to thawing permafrost, retreat of glaciers and sea ice decline. Higher temperatures are also causing more intense storms, droughts...
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    Psychrophile (category Microbial growth and nutrition)
    polar ice, glaciers, snowfields and deep ocean waters. These organisms can also be found in pockets of sea ice with high salinity content. Microbial activity...
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  • deeper water did not have suitable physical conditions for diverse microbial communities. The bathypelagic zone receives inputs of organic material and POM...
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    with water within the sea bed subject to temperature and pressure. In 2008, research on Antarctic Vostok Station and EPICA Dome C ice cores revealed that...
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    aggregate-enriched biofilm environment with distinct microbial communities. Because of its unique position at the air-sea interface, the SML is central to a range...
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    significant portions of microbial communities can be transported over large distances in these dust storms. These microbial communities are highly stress-resistant...
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    have found microbial communities apparently based on the products of reactions between water and the constituents of rocks. These communities have not been...
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    abundant in the coastal regions during the summer. Even sea ice can harbour unique ecological communities, as it expels all salt from the water when it freezes...
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  • researcher, 1981-87, investigated sea ice microbial communities in the fast ice of McMurdo Sound, as well as krill associated with ice edge zones in Bellingshausen...
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    other planets constitute potential refugia for extraterrestrial microbial communities. The term "endolith", which defines an organism that colonizes the...
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    under the surface of the central East Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is at 3,488 m (11,444 ft) above mean sea level. The surface of this fresh water lake is...
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