Black and Bloom is funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Large Grant. This project aims to unravel how dark particles (black) and microbial processes (bloom) darken and accelerate the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

More information can be found on the Black and Bloom website.

Project period: 2016-2021

(authors from the group in bold)

Cook, J. M., Tedstone, A. J., Williamson, C., McCutcheon, J., Hodson, A. J., Dayal, A., Skiles, M., Hofer, S., Bryant, R., McAree, O., McGonigle, A., Ryan, J., Anesio, A. M., Irvine-Fynn, T. D. L., Hubbard, A., Hanna, E., Flanner, M., Mayanna, S., Benning, L. G., van As, D., Yallop, M., McQuaid, J. B., Gribbin, T., Tranter, M. (2020): Glacier algae accelerate melt rates on the south-western Greenland Ice Sheet. - The Cryosphere, 14, 309-330. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-309-2020

Lutz, S., McCutcheon, J., McQuaid, J. B., Benning, L. G. (2018): The diversity of ice algal communities on the Greenland Ice Sheet as revealed by oligotyping. - Microbial Genomics, 4. https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000159