The effect of climate change on terrestrial extreme environments, their microbiology and the implications for planetary habitability

由于人类排放的温室气体增加，地球气候发生了变化，已经对环境产生了广泛的影响。一些预测的变化，如气温上升，更长更明显的热浪和干旱，正在极大地影响地球，尤其是环境，以及它们所包含的生命，这些已经被我们的标准认为是极端的。许多这样的环境现在开始类似于我们在其他行星上观察到的环境，特别是火星，一个本身经历了全球气候变化的行星。这个博士项目将研究地球上的极端环境，使用轨道图像和原位样品分析，以了解化学，矿物学和生物学效应，以及这对了解火星上类似地点的可居住性潜力和我们检测过去生物特征的能力的影响。

Changes to Earth's climate driven by increased human emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases are already having widespread effects on the environment. Some predicted changes such as rising temperatures, longer more pronounced heat waves and droughts are greatly impacting the planet, not least the environments, and the life they contain, that were already considered extreme by our standards. Many of these environments are now starting to resemble those we observe on other planetary bodies, especially Mars, a planet which itself has undergone a global climatic change. This PhD project will study extreme environments on the Earth undergoing climatic changes using orbital imagery and in-situ sample analysis, to understand the chemical, mineralogical and biological effects, and the implications of this to understanding the habitability potential of similar sites on Mars and our ability to detect past biosignatures in them