Publications

Active and dormant microorganisms on glacier surfaces
Glacier and ice sheet surfaces host diverse communities of microorganisms whose activity (or inactivity) influences biogeochemical …
Pigment signatures of algal communities and their implications for glacier surface darkening
Blooms of pigmented algae darken the surface of glaciers and ice sheets, thereby enhancing solar energy absorption and amplifying ice …
DNA/RNA Preservation in Glacial Snow and Ice Samples
The preservation of nucleic acids for high-throughput sequencing is an ongoing challenge for field scientists. In particular, samples …
The Bioinformatics Virtual Coordination Network: An Open-Source and Interactive Learning Environment
Lockdowns and “stay-at-home” orders, starting in March 2020, shuttered bench and field dependent research across the world as a …
Insights into the dynamics between viruses and their hosts in a hot spring microbial mat
Our current knowledge of host–virus interactions in biofilms is limited to computational predictions based on laboratory experiments …
Carbonate-rich dendrolitic cones: insights into a modern analog for incipient microbialite formation, Little Hot Creek, Long Valley Caldera, California
Ancient putative microbial structures that appear in the rock record commonly serve as evidence of early life on Earth, but the details …