Aberystwyth University scientist wins international award for glacier research
Of ice and life: How important are microbes for glaciers? Aberystwyth University scientist Dr Arwyn Edwards has won an international award in The Microbiome Awards for his work on microbes in glaciers. Dr Edwards is a microbiologist at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences at Aberystwyth. The award follows a decade of research and a 3 month research marathon during the summer of 2014 in Greenland, Svalbard, the Swedish Arctic and the Alps with still more work to do in South Georgia. The Microbiome Awards provide young extraordinary scientists with funding and recognition to carry out scientific work in the field of microbiome research. A microbiome is a collective of microorganisms in a particular environment. A recently published paper by Dr Edwards and colleagues at Aberystwyth University in the journal Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water reveals that the fate of Earth’s biggest stores of freshwater - glaciers and ice sheets – is closely linked to the l...