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SUMMARY:EESS talk on "Vanishing Glaciers – what else besides water are w
 e losing?"
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Hannes M. Peter\, Scientist and researcher\, Stream Biofilm
  and Ecosystem Research Laboratory (SBER)\, EPFL\nAbstract:\nGlobal climat
 e change causes the wastage of glaciers and ice sheets at an unprecedented
  pace. Besides the ice mass that is lost\, we may also lose a unique micro
 biome adapted to live in glacier-fed streams. In the Vanishing Glacier pro
 ject we set out to sample microbial communities from glacier-fed streams f
 rom all over the world\, with the aim to establish a first census of micro
 bial life in these extreme environments. By combining community profiling 
 techniques with phylogenetic information\, metagenomic-informed prediction
 s of functionality and biogeochemical measurements\, we seek to understand
  the ecological strategies that these microbes have developed to thrive in
  glacier-fed streams. In this seminar\, I will present first results from 
 the Vanishing Glacier project\, including a preliminary census across more
  than 100 glacier-fed streams\, insights on how the extreme environment in
  these streams exerts a selective pressure which allows some bacterial fam
 ilies to diversify into microdiverse clades and insights on the strategies
  that these microbes employ to meet their resource demands.\n\nShort biogr
 aphy:\nDr Hannes M. Peter is a Senior Scientist at the Stream Biofilm and 
 Ecosystem Research Laboratory at EPFL. He is an aquatic microbial ecologis
 t with a special emphasis on community ecology. With his research\, Hannes
  aims to understand the factors that shape the assembly of complex communi
 ties in freshwater ecosystems\, particularly in alpine environments. Hanne
 s received training in Limnology at the University of Innsbruck\, Austria 
 and obtained his PhD from the University of Uppsala\, Sweden.
LOCATION:ZOOM https://epfl.zoom.us/j/84677261593
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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