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Life in Ancient Ice
Castello
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Description for Life in Ancient Ice
Hardback.
Life in Ancient Ice presents an unparalleled overview of current research into microbial life in ancient glacial ice and permafrost. Particulates of fungi, bacteria, pollen grains, protists, and viruses are carried by wind around the globe. When they fall to Earth in polar regions they may be trapped in ice for hundreds of millennia. Some of the many implications sound like science fiction--for example, might melting glaciers release ancient pathogens that yield modern-day pandemics? But rigorous, coordinated research is nascent. This book points the way forward. Based on a National Science Foundation-sponsored symposium organized by the editors in 2001, it ... Read more
Life in Ancient Ice presents an unparalleled overview of current research into microbial life in ancient glacial ice and permafrost. Particulates of fungi, bacteria, pollen grains, protists, and viruses are carried by wind around the globe. When they fall to Earth in polar regions they may be trapped in ice for hundreds of millennia. Some of the many implications sound like science fiction--for example, might melting glaciers release ancient pathogens that yield modern-day pandemics? But rigorous, coordinated research is nascent. This book points the way forward. Based on a National Science Foundation-sponsored symposium organized by the editors in 2001, it ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691074757
SKU
V9780691074757
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Ref
99-1
About Castello
John D. Castello is Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology in the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York. Scott O. Rogers is Professor and Chair of Biological Sciences at Bowling Green State University.
Reviews for Life in Ancient Ice
"This book ... reports the unexpected finding that all the ice realms, polar, glacial, and permafrost, are part of the biosphere... As the new field of study of life in extreme conditions continues to expand, this book will be a constant reference. Someday it will be seen to have been seminal."
Jack Harris, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research "The arrival of ... Read more
Jack Harris, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research "The arrival of ... Read more