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A Pb isotope tracer of ocean-ice sheet interaction: the record from the NE Atlantic during the Last Glacial/Interglacial cycle

scholarly article

A Two-Component Mixing Model for Predicting Regional Episodic Acidification of Surface Waters During Spring Snowmelt Periods

article

A laboratory investigation of the leaching of solute from snowpack by rainfall

A microbial driver of chemical weathering in glaciated systems

article

A predictive model for the spectral “bioalbedo” of snow

article

Abrasion of sedimentary rocks as a source of hydrogen peroxide and nutrients to subglacial ecosystems

scientific article published in 2023

Algae Drive Enhanced Darkening of Bare Ice on the Greenland Ice Sheet

scholarly article by Marek Stibal et al published 18 November 2017 in Geophysical Research Letters

Ancient organics reign on glaciers

Antarctic ice sheet fertilises the Southern Ocean

scientific article published in 2014

Bacterial Dynamics in Supraglacial Habitats of the Greenland Ice Sheet

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

Bioavailable iron in the Southern Ocean: the significance of the iceberg conveyor belt

scientific article (publication date: 30 May 2008)

Biogeochemical evolution of cryoconite holes on Canada Glacier, Taylor Valley, Antarctica

scholarly article

Biogeochemical weathering under ice: Size matters

article published in 2010

Biogeochemistry: Microbes eat rock under ice.

scientific article

Biolabile ferrous iron bearing nanoparticles in glacial sediments ⬇️

scholarly article by Jon R. Hawkings et al published July 2018 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Biological impact on Greenland's albedo

article

Black acidic snow in the remote Scottish Highlands

scientific article published in Nature

Chemical sensors for in situ data collection in the cryosphere

Clean access, measurement, and sampling of Ellsworth Subglacial Lake: A method for exploring deep Antarctic subglacial lake environments

article

Clean subglacial access: prospects for future deep hot-water drilling

scientific article

Comment on “The Episodic Acidification of Adirondack Lakes During Snowmelt” by Douglas A. Schaefer et al

article

Comparison of episodic acidification in Canada, Europe and the United States

article

Continental weathering fluxes during the last glacial/interglacial cycle: insights from the marine sedimentary Pb isotope record at Orphan Knoll, NW Atlantic

scientific article

Contributions from glacially derived sediment to the global iron (oxyhydr)oxide cycle: Implications for iron delivery to the oceans

scholarly article

Controls on the autochthonous production and respiration of organic matter in cryoconite holes on high Arctic glaciers

scholarly article

Cryospheric ecosystems: a synthesis of snowpack and glacial research

article published in 2015

Dark ice dynamics of the south-west Greenland Ice Sheet

scholarly article by Andrew J. Tedstone et al published 19 May 2017 in The Cryosphere discussions TCD

Dark ice dynamics of the south-west Greenland Ice Sheet

scholarly article by Andrew J. Tedstone et al published 3 November 2017 in The Cryosphere

Dark ice in a warming world: advances and challenges in the study of Greenland Ice Sheet's biological darkening

scientific article published in 2022

Darkening of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Fungal Abundance and Diversity Are Associated With Algal Bloom

scientific article published on 21 March 2019

Determination of dissolved oxygen in the cryosphere: a comprehensive laboratory and field evaluation of fiber optic sensors

scientific article published on 01 December 2010

Direct effect of ice sheets on terrestrial bicarbonate, sulphate and base cation fluxes during the last glacial cycle: minimal impact on atmospheric CO2 concentrations

scholarly article

Dissolved oxygen variations in alpine glacial meltwaters

scientific article published in 1994

Distribution and Transport of Chemical Constituents in the Clyde Estuary

scientific article published in 1994

Do Cryoconite Holes have the Potential to be Significant Sources of C, N, and P to Downstream Depauperate Ecosystems of Taylor Valley, Antarctica?

scientific article published in 2013

Drainage-system development in consecutive melt seasons at a polythermal, Arctic glacier, evaluated by flow-recession analysis and linear-reservoir simulation

scientific article published on 26 July 2013

Dynamic behaviour of supraglacial lakes on cold polar glaciers: Canada Glacier, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

article

Enhancement of glacial solute fluxes in the proglacial zone of a polythermal glacier

scholarly article

Environmental factors influencing diatom communities in Antarctic cryoconite holes

Episodic acidification of freshwater systems in Canada ? Physical and geochemical processes

article

Estuarine mixing of clay minerals in the Solent region, southern England

Evidence for seasonal subglacial outburst events at a polythermal glacier, Finsterwalderbreen, Svalbard

article

Evidence for widespread anoxia in the proglacial zone of an Arctic glacier

scholarly article

Evolution of cryoconite holes and their contribution to meltwater runoff from glaciers in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

scholarly article

Experimental evidence that microbial activity lowers the albedo of glaciers

article

Exploration of Ellsworth Subglacial Lake: a concept paper on the development, organisation and execution of an experiment to explore, measure and sample the environment of a West Antarctic subglacial lake

article

Extreme hydrochemical conditions in natural microcosms entombed within Antarctic ice

GLACIAL ECOSYSTEMS

scientific article published in 2008

Geochemical weathering at the bed of Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland?a new model

article

Geomicrobiology of an Antarctic subglacial brine: A plausible Martian ecosystem

scholarly article

Glacial flours as a potential source of Fe(II) and Fe(III) to polar waters

Glacier Biogeochemistry

Grand challenge for low temperature and pressure geochemistry—sparks in the dark, on Earth, Mars, and throughout the Galaxy

scholarly article by Martyn Tranter published 5 November 2015 in Frontiers in Earth Science

Greenland Ice Sheet exports labile organic carbon to the Arctic oceans

scholarly article by E. C. Lawson et al published 31 July 2014 in Biogeosciences

Groundwater hydrochemistry in the active layer of the proglacial zone, Finsterwalderbreen, Svalbard

Heavily-contaminated snowfalls in the remote Scottish Highlands: A consequence of regional-scale mixing and transport

article

High-resolution monitoring reveals dissolved oxygen dynamics in an Antarctic cryoconite hole

Hydro-biogeochemical coupling beneath a large polythermal Arctic glacier: Implications for subice sheet biogeochemistry

scholarly article

Hydrochemistry of ice stream beds—evaporitic or microbial effects?

Hydrological controls on microbial communities in subglacial environments

article published in 2005

Ice algal bloom development on the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

scientific article published on 10 February 2018

Ice sheets as a missing source of silica to the polar oceans ⬇️

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

Ice sheets as a significant source of highly reactive nanoparticulate iron to the oceans ⬇️

scientific article

Identification and analysis of low molecular weight dissolved organic carbon in subglacial basal ice ecosystems by ion chromatography

Identification and analysis of low-molecular-weight dissolved organic carbon in subglacial basal ice ecosystems by ion chromatography

scientific article published in 2016

Impact of post-mixing chemical reactions on the major ion chemistry of bulk meltwaters draining the haut glacier d'arolla, valais, Switzerland

article

Inputs of glacially derived dissolved and colloidal iron to the coastal ocean and implications for primary productivity

Interannual variability in the spatial distribution of winter accumulation at a high-Arctic glacier (Finsterwalderbreen, Svalbard), and its relationship with topography

article

Introduction to special section on Microcosms in Ice: The Biogeochemistry of Cryoconite Holes

scholarly article

Is Vostok lake in steady state?

article

Kinetic isotopic fractionation during carbonate dissolution in laboratory experiments: Implications for detection of microbial CO2 signatures using δ13C-DIC

scholarly article

Laboratory investigation of inorganic carbon uptake by cryoconite debris from Werenskioldbreen, Svalbard

scholarly article

Limitations to a microbial iron cycle on Mars

Limnological conditions in Subglacial Lake Vostok, Antarctica

article

Location for direct access to subglacial Lake Ellsworth: An assessment of geophysical data and modeling

article

Measuring rates of gross photosynthesis and net community production in cryoconite holes: a comparison of field methods

scholarly article by Jon Telling et al published 2010 in Annals of Glaciology

Metagenomic insights into diazotrophic communities across Arctic glacier forefields ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Methanogenic potential of Arctic and Antarctic subglacial environments with contrasting organic carbon sources

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Microbial dynamics in a High Arctic glacier forefield: a combined field, laboratory, and modelling approach ⬇️

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Microbial dynamics in a High-Arctic glacier forefield: a combined field, laboratory, and modelling approach

Microbial nitrogen cycling on the Greenland Ice Sheet

scholarly article by Jon Telling et al published 5 July 2012 in Biogeosciences

Microbial primary production on an Arctic glacier is insignificant in comparison with allochthonous organic carbon input

scientific article published on 21 April 2008

Microbially driven export of labile organic carbon from the Greenland ice sheet

scholarly article by Michaela Musilova et al published 3 April 2017 in Nature Geoscience

Microbiology of Subglacial Environments

Microbiology: lessons from a first attempt at Lake Ellsworth

scientific article

Mineral phosphorus drives glacier algal blooms on the Greenland Ice Sheet

scientific article published on 25 January 2021

Modelled glacial and non-glacial HCO3−, Si and Ge fluxes since the LGM: little potential for impact on atmospheric CO2 concentrations and a potential proxy of continental chemical erosion, the marine Ge/Si ratio

scientific article

Monitoring a changing Arctic: Recent advancements in the study of sea ice microbial communities

Multi-element geochemical analysis of snow samples: Use of discriminant analysis in interpreting the results

scientific article published on September 1993

Nanoparticulate bioavailable iron minerals in icebergs and glaciers

Nineteenth century black Scottish showers

article

Nitrogen fixation on Arctic glaciers, Svalbard

scholarly article

Observations of the preferential loss of major ions from melting snow and laboratory ice

Phosphatase activity and organic phosphorus turnover on a high Arctic glacier

article by Marek Stibal et al published 27 May 2009 in Biogeosciences

Photophysiology and albedo-changing potential of the ice algal community on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet

scientific article

Physical, chemical and biological processes in Lake Vostok and other Antarctic subglacial lakes ⬇️

scientific article published on December 6, 2001

Potential methane reservoirs beneath Antarctica.

scientific article

Potentially bioavailable iron delivery by iceberg-hosted sediments and atmospheric dust to the polar oceans ⬇️

article

Processes controlling carbon cycling in Antarctic glacier surface ecosystems

Quantifying bioalbedo: A new physically-based model and critique of empirical methods for characterizing biological influence on ice and snow albedo

article published in 2017

Quantifying bioalbedo: a new physically based model and discussion of empirical methods for characterising biological influence on ice and snow albedo

scientific article

Rapid development of anoxic niches in supraglacial ecosystems

article

Response of Antarctic cryoconite microbial communities to light

scientific article published on 18 April 2016

Rock comminution as a source of hydrogen for subglacial ecosystems

Sampling strategy to describe the temporal hydrochemical characteristics of an alpine proglacial stream

article by A. M. Gurnell et al published January 1994 in Hydrological Processes

Schwertmannite in wet, acid, and oxic microenvironments beneath polar and polythermal glaciers

scholarly article

Source of Lake Vostok Cations Constrained with Strontium Isotopes

article

Sources, cycling and export of nitrogen on the Greenland Ice Sheet

scholarly article by Jemma Louise Wadham et al published 25 November 2016 in Biogeosciences

Spatial Variability of Antarctic Surface Snow Bacterial Communities

scientific article published on 26 March 2019

Spatial variability in the chemical composition of snowcover in a small, remote, scottish catchment

article

Speciation, phase association and potential bioavailability of phosphorus on a Svalbard glacier

Spring thaw ionic pulses boost nutrient availability and microbial growth in entombed Antarctic Dry Valley cryoconite holes

scientific article published on 11 December 2014

Stable isotope evidence for microbial sulphate reduction at the bed of a polythermal high Arctic glacier

scholarly article

Stable microbial community composition on the Greenland Ice Sheet

scientific article

Subglacial Lake Whillans microbial biogeochemistry: a synthesis of current knowledge

scientific article published on January 2016

Subglacial methanogenesis: A potential climatic amplifier?

Sulphide oxidation under partially anoxic conditions at the bed of the Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland

article

Suspended sediment fluxes in a high-Arctic glacierised catchment: implications for fluvial sediment storage

Temporal variations in physical and chemical features of cryoconite holes on Canada Glacier, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

scholarly article

The Biodiversity and Biogeochemistry of Cryoconite Holes from McMurdo Dry Valley Glaciers, Antarctica

scientific article published in 2004

The Geochemistry of Supraglacial Streams of Canada Glacier, Taylor Valley (Antarctica), and their Evolution into Proglacial Waters

article

The character and causes of a pronounced snowmelt-induced ‘acidic episode’ in a stream in a Scottish subarctic catchment

article

The characteristics and formation of a high‐arctic proglacial icing

The chemical composition of snow at a rural upland site in mid-wales

article

The composition of acidic meltwaters during snowmelt in the Scottish Highlands

article

The composition of snowfall, snowpack and meltwater in the Scottish highlands-evidence for preferential elution

article

The effect of warming climate on nutrient and solute export from the Greenland Ice Sheet

article

The hydrochemistry of Bayelva, a high Arctic proglacial stream in Svalbard

The hydrochemistry of Lake Vostok and the potential for life in Antarctic subglacial lakes

article

The hydrology of the proglacial zone of a high-Arctic glacier (Finsterwalderbreen, Svalbard): Atmospheric and surface water fluxes

scholarly article by Richard Hodgkins et al published November 2009 in Journal of Hydrology

The hydrology of the proglacial zone of a high-Arctic glacier(Finsterwalderbreen, Svalbard): Sub-surface water fluxes and complete water budget

scholarly article by Richard Cooper et al published August 2011 in Journal of Hydrology

The impact of a single black snowfall on streamwater chemistry in the Scottish Highlands

scientific article published in Nature

The loss of halide and sulphate ions from melting ice

The potential role of the Antarctic Ice Sheet in global biogeochemical cycles

The silicon cycle impacted by past ice sheets ⬇️

scientific article published in Nature Communications

The solute and particulate chemistry of background versus a polluted, black snowfall on the Cairngorm mountains, Scotland

article by Sheldon Landsberger et al published January 1989 in Atmospheric Environment

The trace element composition of stream- and melt-waters at times of the spring-thaw in the Scottish Highlands

scientific article published on December 1988

The weathering of aeolian dusts in alpine snows

Theoretical framework and diagnostic criteria for the identification of palaeo-subglacial lakes

scholarly article

Trace elements in snow samples from the Scottish Highlands: Sources and dissolved/particulate distributions

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Trace-element studies in a remote scottish upland catchment

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Trickle or treat: The dynamics of nutrient export from polar glaciers

Use of factor analysis to investigate processes controlling the chemical composition of four streams in the Adirondack Mountains, New York

article

Viral impacts on bacterial communities in Arctic cryoconite

What Darkens the Greenland Ice Sheet?

scholarly article by Marco Tedesco et al published 17 September 2015 in Eos

Widespread bacterial populations at glacier beds and their relationship to rock weathering and carbon cycling

scholarly article

‘Acidic episodes’ in surface waters in Europe

article by T.D. Davies et al published March 1992 in Journal of Hydrology

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