We are investigating how dark particles (black) and microbial processes (Bloom) drive the melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Our new paper in The Cryosphere presents a model for predicting the spectral albedo reduction resulting from biological growth on snow or ice. The biomass concentration and pigmentation of cells, … Continue Reading TCD Paper: Bioalbedo model and critique of empirical methods
Online Early version here (copyedited version soon). The ‘bioalbedo effect’ is the enhanced melting of snow and ice due to living organisms growing on it. Life can change the colour of the … Continue Reading JGR Paper: Modelling bioalbedo of snow
November saw an exchange visit to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab for Joe, the Work Package 3 post-doc. After joining us in the field in summer 2016, JPL postdoc Johan Nilsson … Continue Reading WP3 JPL visit
It was Johan who first noticed, during a patrol of our Ice Surface Observatory, a tall jet of water bursting from the ice surface several kilometers to the West, punctuating … Continue Reading The Mystery Moulin…
Black and Bloom science, and several Black and Bloom researchers, feature in this article “The Tiny World of Glacier Microbes Has an Outsized Impact on Global Climate” in Smithsonian Magazine. … Continue Reading Smithsonian Magazine Article
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