Jessica FITZSIMMONS (Rutgers University, USA)
Colloidal iron distribution and bioavailability along the West Antarctic Peninsula.
Colloidal iron distribution and bioavailability along the West Antarctic Peninsula.
How hot rocks help species survive in cold places: using genetics to test whether small patches of volcanically-warmed earth can support high levels of biodiversity in Antarctica.
Tracing continental input and organic matter export using the long-lived thorium isotopes.
The use of individual planktonic foraminifera from sediment traps to assess seasonal variability along the West Antarctic Peninsula.
Published in 2019: Temporal variability in foraminiferal morphology and geochemistry at the West Antarctic Peninsula: a sediment trap study
The temperature sensitivity of two contrasting Antarctic soils in response to climate change.
ASB_report_O’Neill_Temperature sensitivity Antarctic soil biology
The initiation of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and the role of Atlantic overturning circulation. A report of this work can be found here.
Investigating how chain-reaction drainage of surface lakes triggers ice shelf break-up.
Southern Ocean Sponges: the link between biogeography and geochemistry.
Demosponges from the sublittoral and shallow-circalittoral (<24m depth) Antarctic Peninsula with a description of four new species and notes on in situ identification characteristics. See paper in Zootaxa here.
Tracing the Quaternary evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctic Ice Sheets using lead isotopes in ice-rafted feldspar mineral grains.
Macquarie Island albatrosses: assessing the environmental and anthropogenic influences on population and demographic status and trends. Publications:
Continental weathering on Antarctica and Southern Ocean productivity across the Eocene/Oligocene boundary – is there a link?
A novel method of determining accumulation rates during the last glacial period at Berkner Island, West Antarctica.
High resolution geochronology of the Butcher Ridge Igneous Complex – insight into the timing and duration of the Ferrar Large Igneous Province.
Powering and Communicating-with Remote Instrumentation on Erebus Volcano, Antarctica.
Are lichen traits drivers of terrestrial arthropodcommunities in Antarctica?
Impact of marine vertebrates on Antarctic terrestrial micro-arthropods
Humans and their hidden companions cross Antarctica.
Unravelling Antarctic deglaciation chronologies using multiple cosmogenic isotopes.
Past and present dynamics of Skelton Glacier, Transantarctic Mountains
Quantitative PCR evaluation of cyanobacteria in microbial mats of McMurdo Dry Valley Lakes, Antarctica: identification of keystone taxa in benthic foodwebs.
Levels and persistence of heavy metals in the Antarctic procellariiform community: a 14 year perspective.
Has Historic Whale and Seal Harvesting and Recent Climatic Warming Altered the Trophic Ecology of Pygoscelis Penguins Over the Last 200 Years?