The need for increased protection of Antarctica's inland waters

I Hawes, C Howard-Williams, N Gilbert… - Antarctic …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Protection of Antarctica's biodiversity and ecosystem values is enshrined in the Protocol on
Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, which provides for the designation of …

Helicopter-borne transient electromagnetics in high-latitude environments: An application in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

N Foley, S Tulaczyk, E Auken, C Schamper, H Dugan… - Geophysics, 2016 - library.seg.org
ABSTRACT The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a polar desert in coastal Antarctica, where
glaciers, permafrost, ice-covered lakes, and ephemeral summer streams coexist. Liquid …

Chemodenitrification in the cryoecosystem of lake vida, Victoria Valley, Antarctica

NE Ostrom, H Gandhi, G Trubl, AE Murray - Geobiology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Lake Vida, in the Victoria Valley of East Antarctica, is frozen, yet harbors liquid brine
(~ 20% salt,> 6 times seawater) intercalated in the ice below 16 m. The brine has been …

First insights into the microbiology of three Antarctic briny systems of the Northern Victoria Land

M Papale, C Rizzo, G Caruso, R La Ferla, G Maimone… - Diversity, 2021 - mdpi.com
Different polar environments (lakes and glaciers), also in Antarctica, encapsulate brine pools
characterized by a unique combination of extreme conditions, mainly in terms of high salinity …

Cultivable bacterial communities in brines from perennially ice-covered and pristine Antarctic lakes: Ecological and biotechnological implications

C Rizzo, A Conte, M Azzaro, M Papale, AC Rappazzo… - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
The diversity and biotechnological potentialities of bacterial isolates from brines of three
Antarctic lakes of the Northern Victoria Land (namely Boulder Clay and Tarn Flat areas) …

Intra‐ice and intra‐sediment cryopeg brine occurrence in permafrost near Utqiaġvik (Barrow)

G Iwahana, ZS Cooper, SD Carpenter… - Permafrost and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cryopeg is a layer within permafrost containing a significant amount of cryotic unfrozen
water due to dissolved salts. To explore the origin and development of cryopeg and …

Pressurized brines in continental Antarctica as a possible analogue of Mars

E Forte, M Dalle Fratte, M Azzaro, M Guglielmin - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Interest in brines in extreme and cold environments has recently increased after they have
been found on Mars. Those brines can be potential new subsurface habitats for peculiar …

Life from a snowflake: diversity and adaptation of cold-loving bacteria among ice crystals

C Rizzo, A Lo Giudice - Crystals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Incredible as it is, researchers have now the awareness that even the most extreme
environment includes special habitats that host several forms of life. Cold environments …

[HTML][HTML] Brief communication: The hidden labyrinth: deep groundwater in Wright Valley, Antarctica

HA Dugan, PT Doran, D Grombacher, E Auken… - The …, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
Since the 1960s, a deep groundwater system in Wright Valley, Antarctica, has been the
hypothesized source of brines to hypersaline Don Juan Pond and Lake Vanda, both of …

Prokaryotic diversity and metabolically active communities in brines from two perennially ice-covered Antarctic lakes

A Lo Giudice, A Conte, M Papale, C Rizzo, M Azzaro… - Astrobiology, 2021 - liebertpub.com
The genomic diversity of bacteria and archaea in brines (BC1, BC2, and BC3) from two
adjacent and perennially frozen Antarctic lakes (L16 and L-2) in the Boulder Clay (BC) area …