From: Where in the World? Europe
Svalbard, Arctic archipelago
The Kostka lab Arctic Biogeochemistry research was recently profiled on the MO BIO website in a piece written by Ph.D. student Andy Canion.
Excerpt: In Ph. D. student Andy Canion's own words: "Greetings from the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard! The lab of Dr. Joel Kostka, at Florida State University, recently participated in an international research expedition to study the microbes that live in the marine muds at the bottom of Arctic fjords. The expedition was organized by the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, and took place in the Svalbard archipelago (79°N), north of Norway. Svalbard is a majestic place, with striking mountains, glaciers calving right into the water, and no shortage of polar bears. There is also no shortage of researchers in the town of Ny-Ålesund, which has been converted from a coal-mining town to a year-round research station (the northernmost permanent residence in the world!).
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