Spring 2025 highlights

• New publications: Halbach et al. on glacier algae on the Greenland Ice Sheet; Waldrop et al. on permafrost microbiology; Roy et al. on antimicrobial resistance Arctic soils; Cimpoiasu et al on year-round Arctic soil geophysics.
• Goodbye to Zhou, Adam and Margaret, who finish their postdocs at QMUL.
• James and Laura are in Svalbard for the SIESTA and HFSP projects.
• Eloi presents HFSP research at LCB.
• Catherine Larose and her team visit Marseille for SIESTA - Paleo-MARE meetings.
• James is in Antarctica, as co-chief scientist for the SD049 Antarctic winter-time cruise onboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough, for the WINTER-AIR/HFSP projects.
• We welcome Begum Kasapli as a Masters intern working with James and Eloi on the HFSP aerobiology project.
• James at the Assemblée Nationale in Paris for the Arctic, Antarctic, TAAF and Deep Oceans Study Group.