Research Activities– 2021

2021

Carla GRECO (Natural History Museum, UK)

Metagenomic insights into diversity, community function and stromatolite formation in microbial mats of perennially ice-covered Lake Untersee, Antarctica

Awarded £2160

Roger COLOMINAS-CIURÓ (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, CNRS, France)

Interspecific and intraspecific associations between diet, antioxidants, and oxidative status: the unkown role of endogenous antioxidants in the wild

Awarded £4957

Chloe KACZVINSKY (University of Oxford, UK)

Diseases and Microbiome in Gentoo Penguins. Report here. Publication here

Awarded £4600

Balaji SENAPATI (IIT Kharagpur, India)

Influence of wavenumber-4 pattern on Antarctic Sea ice using SINTEX-F2 model. Publication here

Awarded £6000

Mathieu CASADO (University of Heidelberg, Germany)

Dating profiles in a trench to study post deposition processes in Antarctica. Report here. Publication here.

Awarded £5900

Jack BUCKINGHAM (University of Hull, UK)

Combining scat-based molecular metabarcoding diet analysis with quantification of ingested microplastics in higher predators from South Georgia

Awarded £3300

Flore VAN MALDEGHEM (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

Comparison of Antarctic and Arctic sediment traps in the search of cosmic mineral grains. Report here.

Awarded £6000

Julia MARKS-PETERSON (Oregon State University, USA)

Investigating links between total organic matter in ice cores and CO2 reconstructions

Awarded £4300

Devi VEYTIA (University of Tasmania, Australia)

Immaculate conception: observations of second year krill following a zero-recruitment year?

Awarded £3974

Joey VOERMANS (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Energy transfer from wind to waves in the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone. Report here.

Awarded £4600

Chelsey BAKER (National Oceanography Centre, UK)

Exploring the roles of turbulence and transparent exopolymer particles on particle transformation in the Southern Ocean. Report here

Awarded £5988