Glacial Biology Links

General Glacial Biology

• Glacial biology@ Tokyo Institute of Technology [Dr. Kohshima lab]
• The Tiny Universe on the Surface of Alaska Glaciers@Alaska Science Forum
• Antarctic Icy Biology@Priscu Research Group
• McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER
• "Life in Extreme Environments" (LExEn)@NSF
• Glacier biology by Paula L. Hartzell
• Mars Gullies Could Harbor Martian Biology@Space.com
• Definition of Psychrophile@wordiQ
• University of Innsbruck, Institute of Zoology and Limnology

Cryoconite hole

• Cryoconite hole project@University of Sheffield, UK
• Cryoconite hole project@Portland State University
• Bacteria in Cryoconite holes of Alps@Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 53 (2003)
• Cryoconite for Astrobiology: Search for life on Mars will start in Siberia@NASA
• Cryoconite hole in French word@Glossarie glaciologique

Snow algae

• Snow Algae Shade Most (Not All) Colored Snow@National Geographic News 6/7/2005
• Biology of snow: Algae@Pluse of the Planet, USA
• Watermelon Snow@Wayne's Word
• Snow algae
• Snow algae@Australian Antarctic Division
• Snow algae in New Zealand
• Snow algae@National Institute of Polar Research, Japan [Japanese]
• Raspberry ripple snow, Antarctica
• Life in Extreme Environments- Snow Algae@Wake Forest University
• Red snow, Green snow - snow algae on Science news
• Snow algae Absorb Greenhouse Gas@Scientific American 1/7/2003
• Pink snow could fight global warming@United press international 1/6/2003
• Conference: Algae and Extreme Environments Ecology and Physiology, 11-16 September 2000 TeboÀ, South Bohemia
• The color of snow
• Algae create blushing snow@The Olympian 6/25/2002
• ErzsÈbet Kol@Phycological News Letter [Research History of Snow algae]
• ErzsÈbet Kol@Hungary
• Kol's snow algae collection@Humgary
• The Green Snow of Yellowstone National Park@Kol, American Journal of Botany, 28, 3, March, 1941

Animals

• "Sounds, Copepods, and Himalayas" by a musician, Akira Sakata [Japanese]
• Snow flea@Study of Northern Virginia Ecology
• Snow flea@Yard&Garden line news 3/1/2003
• Ice worm hunting in Alaska@USATODAY 2002
• Ice worm in North Cascade glaciers
• Ice worm project in Alaska@National Geographic
• Ice worm Stars@Wird news
• Explorers to Study Ice Worms@NASA
• Greenland Rotifers
• Anhydrobiosis and cold tolerance in tardigrades

Bacteria

• Bacteria Can Grow, Reproduce, And Travel In Clouds
  
• Psychrophilic bacteria in milk
• Effect of Temperature on Growth Rate
• A psychrophilic bacterium isolated from a pond in McMurdo Dry Valley, Antarctica@IJSEM