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Byrd Center's Role in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently released the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis, which cited at least 30 papers…

Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change
A consensus statement was recently published in Nature warning humanity about climate change from the perspective of microorganisms. Two Byrd Center members, Virginia Rich and Matthew Sullivan,…

Byrd Center member Dr. Virginia Rich (Microbiology) recently led a team in publishing the discovery of a novel phylum living in Arctic permafrost
This new lineage - dubbed Cryosericota, ‘cryo’ for cold and ‘sericota’ for its sister phylum, Caldiserica, for which it was initially mistaken - dominated the microbiome of the old, frozen…

Barium and barite dynamics in Antarctic streams
Research ArticleSaelens, Elsa, C. Gardner, K.A. Welch, S. Welch, and B.W. Lyons. 2018. Barium and barite dynamics in Antarctic streams. Geology. 46. 10.1130/G45048.1.
Abstract…