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

人类温室气体排放增加导致的地球气候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、更长时间、更明显的热浪和干旱，正在极大地影响地球，尤其是环境和它们所包含的生命，这在我们的标准下已经被认为是极端的。其中许多环境现在开始类似于我们在其他行星上观察到的环境，尤其是火星，它本身也经历了全球气候变化。这个博士项目将使用轨道图像和现场样本分析来研究地球上正在经历气候变化的极端环境，以了解化学、矿物学和生物效应，以及这对了解火星上类似地点的可居住性潜力和我们探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