This research, featured in a recent Waterloo Homepage story, investigated how dark glacier algae is contributing to the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, and where the algae was getting its nutrient source.
“What we’re trying to do is to better understand how algal blooms form, why they form where they do and is there a way to predict how they’ll form in future melt seasons,” says McCutcheon. “One season to the next, algal blooms may change and vary in intensity, making them difficult to model year-to-year.”
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