Event Date
Join UC Davis researchers for a live talk from Antarctica on January 24th from 1-2 pm PST.
Viewers may log in via YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYcrL5IscKo
The field team includes Abbey Dias (UCD Assistant Boating and Diving Safety Officer), Dawn Sumner (UCD Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences), Tyler Mackey (UCD Alum PhD ’16 and Assistant Professor at University of New Mexico), Marisol Juarez Rivera (UCD Alum BS ’13 and MS ’15 and Postdoctoral Researcher at University of New Mexico), and Elisa Merz (UCD Scientific Diver and Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Constance in Germany). The team will discuss their research to understand the structures and patterns formed by living microbial communities in a perennially ice-covered lake to contextualize rock records of the earliest life on Earth.