Sea ice, extremophiles and life on extra-terrestrial ocean worlds

Habitability: A Review

(2016) C.S. Cockell et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The pH of Enceladus’ ocean

(2015) Christopher R. Glein et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

In situ expression of eukaryotic ice-binding proteins in microbial communities of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice

(2015) Christiane Uhlig et al.   ISME Journal

Antarctic phytoplankton down-regulate their carbon-concentrating mechanisms under high CO2 with no change in growth rates

(2015) JN Young et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Ongoing hydrothermal activities within Enceladus

(2015) Hsiang-Wen Hsu et al.   NATURE

Effects of UV radiation on aquatic ecosystems and interactions with other environmental factors

(2015) Donat-P. Häder et al.   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Antarctic phytoplankton down-regulate their carbon-concentrating mechanisms under high CO2 with no change in growth rates

(2015) JN Young et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

The relationship between sea ice bacterial community structure and biogeochemistry: A synthesis of current knowledge and known unknowns

(2015) Jeff S. Bowman   Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene

Microbial Communities Can Be Described by Metabolic Structure: A General Framework and Application to a Seasonally Variable, Depth-Stratified Microbial Community from the Coastal West Antarctic Peninsula

(2015) Jeff S. Bowman et al.   PLoS One

Extracellular organic carbon dynamics during a bottom-ice algal bloom (Antarctica)

(2014) SC Ugalde et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

HOW THE GEYSERS, TIDAL STRESSES, AND THERMAL EMISSION ACROSS THE SOUTH POLAR TERRAIN OF ENCELADUS ARE RELATED

(2014) Carolyn Porco et al.   ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL

Protection of cells from salinity stress by extracellular polymeric substances in diatom biofilms

(2014) Deborah J. Steele et al.   BIOFOULING

Some like it cold: understanding the survival strategies of psychrophiles

(2014) P. De Maayer et al.   EMBO REPORTS

Multiplication of microbes below 0.690 water activity: implications for terrestrial and extraterrestrial life

(2014) Andrew Stevenson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The ice-binding proteins of a snow alga, Chloromonas brevispina: probable acquisition by horizontal gene transfer

(2014) James A. Raymond   EXTREMOPHILES

Bacterial responses to fluctuations and extremes in temperature and brine salinity at the surface of Arctic winter sea ice

(2014) Marcela Ewert et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Types of habitat in the Universe

(2014) Charles S. Cockell   International Journal of Astrobiology

Global Sea Ice Coverage from Satellite Data: Annual Cycle and 35-Yr Trends

(2014) Claire L. Parkinson   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Evidence for subduction in the ice shell of Europa

(2014) Simon A. Kattenhorn et al.   Nature Geoscience

Slow carboxylation of Rubisco constrains the rate of carbon fixation during Antarctic phytoplankton blooms

(2014) Jodi N. Young et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Response of Antarctic Sea Ice Algae to Changes in pH and CO2

(2014) Andrew McMinn et al.   PLoS One

Requirements and limits for life in the context of exoplanets

(2014) C. P. McKay   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ice-binding proteins: a remarkable diversity of structures for stopping and starting ice growth

(2014) Peter L. Davies   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES

IceMole: a maneuverable probe for clean in situ analysis and sampling of subsurface ice and subglacial aquatic ecosystems

(2014) Bernd Dachwald et al.   ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY

Enceladus: An Active Ice World in the Saturn System

(2013) John R. Spencer et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Sea Ice Ecosystems

(2013) Kevin R. Arrigo   Annual Review of Marine Science

KECK II OBSERVATIONS OF HEMISPHERICAL DIFFERENCES IN H2O2ON EUROPA

(2013) K. P. Hand et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Did life originate from a global chemical reactor?

(2013) E. E. Stüeken et al.   Geobiology

pH evolution in sea ice grown at an outdoor experimental facility

(2013) A.A. Hare et al.   MARINE CHEMISTRY

High rates of microbial carbon turnover in sediments in the deepest oceanic trench on Earth

(2013) Ronnie N. Glud et al.   Nature Geoscience

Broad-scale predictability of carbohydrates and exopolymers in Antarctic and Arctic sea ice

(2013) G. J. C. Underwood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microfluidic experiments reveal that antifreeze proteins bound to ice crystals suffice to prevent their growth

(2013) Yeliz Celik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dark survival in a warming world

(2013) A. McMinn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Transient Water Vapor at Europa's South Pole

(2013) L. Roth et al.   SCIENCE

The limits for life under multiple extremes

(2013) Jesse P. Harrison et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

A whole-moon thermal history model of Europa: Impact of hydrothermal circulation and salt transport

(2012) B.J. Travis et al.   ICARUS

Optimization to Low Temperature Activity in Psychrophilic Enzymes

(2012) Caroline Struvay et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

The physiological response to increased temperature in over-wintering sea ice algae and phytoplankton in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica and Tromsø Sound, Norway

(2012) Andrew Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Production and Characterization of the Intra- and Extracellular Carbohydrates and Polymeric Substances (EPS) of Three Sea-Ice Diatom Species, and Evidence for a Cryoprotective Role for EPS

(2012) Shazia N. Aslam et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Possible Role of Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Colonization of Sea Ice by Algae

(2012) James A. Raymond et al.   PLoS One

Microbial life at -13  C in the brine of an ice-sealed Antarctic lake

(2012) A. E. Murray et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Temperature responses of growth, photosynthesis, fatty acid and nitrate reductase in Antarctic and temperate Stichococcus

(2011) Zhuo Chen et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

THE EFFECTS OF ULTRAVIOLET-B RADIATION ON ANTARCTIC SEA-ICE ALGAE1

(2011) Ken G. Ryan et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Active formation of ‘chaos terrain’ over shallow subsurface water on Europa

(2011) B. E. Schmidt et al.   NATURE

A salt-water reservoir as the source of a compositionally stratified plume on Enceladus

(2011) F. Postberg et al.   NATURE

Dissolved extracellular polymeric substances (dEPS) dynamics and bacterial growth during sea ice formation in an ice tank study

(2011) Shazia N. Aslam et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Sea ice microbial dynamics over an annual ice cycle in Prydz Bay, Antarctica

(2011) Harriet Paterson et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Exopolymer alteration of physical properties of sea ice and implications for ice habitability and biogeochemistry in a warmer Arctic

(2011) Christopher Krembs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microbial respiration in ice at subzero temperatures (−4°C to −33°C)

(2011) Corien Bakermans et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

How do bacteria sense and respond to low temperature?

(2010) S. Shivaji et al.   ARCHIVES OF MICROBIOLOGY

Distribution and composition of dissolved extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) in Antarctic sea ice

(2010) GJC Underwood et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Space Microbiology

(2010) G. Horneck et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

A substantial population of low-mass stars in luminous elliptical galaxies

(2010) Pieter G. van Dokkum et al.   NATURE

Phytoplankton and sea ice algal biomass and physiology during the transition between winter and spring (McMurdo Sound, Antarctica)

(2010) A. McMinn et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Diversity and ecology of psychrophilic microorganisms

(2010) Rosa Margesin et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Evolution of Icy Satellites

(2010) G. Schubert et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Molecular adaptations to psychrophily: the impact of ‘omic’ technologies

(2010) Ana Casanueva et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Low Salinity and High-Level UV-B Radiation Reduce Single-Cell Activity in Antarctic Sea Ice Bacteria

(2009) A. Martin et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Mixotrophy: a widespread and important ecological strategy for planktonic and sea-ice nanoflagellates in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

(2009) S Moorthi et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Microbial biodiversity of thermophilic communities in hot mineral soils of Tramway Ridge, Mount Erebus, Antarctica

(2009) Rochelle M. Soo et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Modification of exopolysaccharide composition and production by three cyanobacterial isolates under salt stress

(2009) Sahlan Ozturk et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Sodium salts in E-ring ice grains from an ocean below the surface of Enceladus

(2009) F. Postberg et al.   NATURE

OXIDATIVE STRESS RESPONSES IN THE MARINE ANTARCTIC DIATOMCHAETOCEROS BREVIS(BACILLARIOPHYCEAE) DURING PHOTOACCLIMATION1

(2008) Paul J. Janknegt et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Slow dust in Enceladus' plume from condensation and wall collisions in tiger stripe fractures

(2008) Jürgen Schmidt et al.   NATURE

Habitability of Enceladus: Planetary Conditions for Life

(2008) Christopher D. Parkinson et al.   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Epiphytic bacteria on the Antarctic ice diatom Amphiprora kufferathii Manguin cleave hydrogen peroxide produced during algal photosynthesis

(2008) M. Hünken et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY