The Center for Glacial Biome is a resource created by a group of passionate researchers who explore the microbial diversity of glaciers, understand their environmental impacts and uncover innovative solutions for sustainability.
Our goal is to advance scientific understanding, foster global awareness, and promote conservation efforts for the glacial biome by providing a comprehensive virtual platform for research, education, and collaboration.
For questions related to work on the glacier microbiome or opportunities for collaboration, you can contact any of the beneficiaries on the ICEBIO beneficiaries page.
A Catalogue of the Active Microbial Diversity in Subglacial Habitats.
A Catalogue of the Active Microbial Diversity on Glacier Surfaces.
A description and instructions of laboratory setup mimicking subglacial rock crushing.
Amount of nutrients released by glacial runoff..
A robust analytical workflow for targeted and untargeted metabolite analyses.
An estimation of microbial diversity in snow over glacier surfaces.
An evaluation of the potential of glacial flour to increase crop yield on land and mitigate climate change.
An evaluation of the potential of glaciers and glacial flour to fertilize down-stream food webs.
An understanding of the selection and increased activity of N-fixers in glacier flour for the establishment of plants.
An understanding of the shifts between microbial dormancy and activity and physico-chemical triggers at the snow-ice interface.
Core microbiome across various glacier-fed streams in the Pamir area.
Efficacy of glacial flour as a fertilizer of oligotrophic ecosystems.
Metabolite production in glacial surfaces.
Microbial biomass and activity in bioaerosols.
Microplastic deposition on alpine glaciers.
Nanopore technologies in glacial studies.
Rate of release of solutes and gases from reactivated crushed glacial flour.
Role of viruses in controlling microbial mortality at the surface of glaciers.
Workflow for PCR-amplicon, metagenomes, and total RNA analyses of glacier samples.
Léa Francomme
Emerging pathogen risks from melting glaciers.
Nasim Kashiri
Geotextiles on alpine glaciers.
Alessandro Cuzzeri
Glacial flour and downstream ecosystems in a warming world.
Marco Ajmar, Klara Köhler, Kara Sampsell, Silje Waaler
Important considerations for responsible use of glacial rock flour in agriculture.
Kara Sampsell, Marco Ajmar, Klara Köhler, Silje Waaler
Preserving glacial microbes for future research and industrial innovation.
Lars G. van Dijk
The arctic's hidden players.
Harpreet Singh
Tiny microbes give glaciers a dark twist.
Annika Morische, Anirban Majumder
EGU Division on Cryospheric Sciences
Climate and Cryosphere Early Career Resources
Association of Polar Early Career Scientists Association of Polar Early Career Scientists
FEMS MICRO 2027 will bring together microbiologists, innovators, and policy-makers from across Europe and beyond. Under the theme Growing microbial futures, the Congress & Exhibition looks ahead to what comes next in microbiology, from turning ideas into impact to building partnerships, supporting careers, and creating opportunities that strengthen both the field, the people, and the organisations driving it forward. The meeting will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia. For more information, click here.
The EGU General Assembly is a prominent annual event that brings together geoscientists from all over the world into one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. To learn more about the programme and registration, click here.
The Polar and Alpine Microbiology Conference runs every two years. The most recent conference took place in Copenhagen, Denmark from 12-1 January . To learn more about the conference and to consult the programme, click here.