PostDoctoral Research Fellowship

该奖项是授予博士后奖学金的。研究人员将在南极麦克默多干燥河谷的血瀑布的冰下湖泊环境中表征碳循环和微生物多样性。通过使用新的同位素生物标记物技术，申请人将探索这种海洋入侵中的微生物代谢，这种入侵很可能是从上新世以来的有机投入中分离出来的。她的工作对理解这种封闭系统在地球上历史上二氧化碳循环中的作用以及我们对其他行星上类似系统的理解具有重要意义。

This award is for a postdoctoral fellowship. The investigator will characterize the carbon cycling and microbial diversity in the subglacial lake environment at Blood Falls in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. By using new isotopic biomarker techniques the applicant will explore microbial metabolism in this marine incursion that has likely been isolated from organic inputs since the Pliocene. Her work has implications for understanding the role of such closed systems in historical carbon dioxide cycling on Earth as well as for our understanding of similar systems on other planets.