The Bioburden and Ionic Composition of Hypersaline Lake Ices: Novel Habitats on Earth and Their Astrobiological Implications

Jacob Buffo,E.K. Brown,Alexandra Pontefract,Britney E. Schmidt,Benjamin Klempay,Justin Lawrence,Jeff S. Bowman,M. Grantham,Jennifer B. Glass,Taylor Plattner,Chase Chivers,Peter T. Doran

The Bioburden and Ionic Composition of Hypersaline Lake Ices: Novel Habitats on Earth and Their Astrobiological Implications

2021

Jacob Buffo
E.K. Brown
Alexandra Pontefract
Britney E. Schmidt
Benjamin Klempay
Justin Lawrence
Jeff S. Bowman
M. Grantham
Jennifer B. Glass
Taylor Plattner
Chase Chivers
Peter T. Doran

We present thermophysical, biological, and chemical observations of ice and brine samples from five compositionally diverse hypersaline lakes in British Columbia’s interior plateau. Possessing a sp...

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ionic composition
Environmental science
Habitat
Hypersaline lake
Earth (classical element)
Brining
Plateau
Geochemistry
Bioburden

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