Kongsvegen glacier margin, Svalbard. Credit: James Bradley

L-R: James Bradley, Sibylle Lebert, Eloi Martinez-Rabert, Christian Tamburini. Credit: James Bradley

Returning to Ny-Ålesund after sampling on Midtre Lovénbreen glacier, Svalbard. Credit: James Bradley

Sibylle Lebert, Christian Tamburini & Eloi Martinez-Rabert sampling snow on Austre Brøggerbreen glacier, Svalbard. Credit: James Bradley

❄️ SVALBARD 78°N ❄️

#ERC_SIESTA fieldwork underway in Svalbard, as we search for the survival, dormancy and ice nucleation strategies of microbes in Earth's extremes 🦠 🧬 🔬 ❄️ 🐻‍❄️

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📢New Paper funded by OceanICU published in Nature Geoscience!
➡️Distinct contributions of suspended and sinking prokaryotes to mesopelagic carbon budget. Read it here www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read the story behind the paper here → communities.springernature.com/posts/distin...

🌍🔬The OceanICU project was well represented throughout the week long Ocean Sciences Meeting in Glasgow through orals, poster talks and town hall discussions. Stay tuned for more information

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Distinct contributions of suspended and sinking prokaryotes to mesopelagic carbon budget - Nature Geoscience Genetic and isotopic analyses of samples from the northeast Atlantic reveal that suspended prokaryotic dark carbon fixation substantially fuels carbon inputs below the sunlit ocean, while particle-att...

Have a look into this new publication, led by Pauline Le Coq and Christian Tamburini @ctambu.bsky.social with Lomic participation of Mireille Pujo-Pay and Olivier Crispi. How do particle-attached microbes contribute to the mesopelagic carbon budget?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Les structures océaniques (cyclones, anticyclones...) influencent le rôle des micro-organismes dans la séquestration du CO2 dans l’océan profond Grâce à une approche inédite, une équipe internationale, dirigée par des scientifiques de CNRS Terre & Univers a pu quantifier le rôle distinct des micro-

Notre article Le Coq et al. (2026) in Nat. Geosc. mis en lumière dans les actualités du CNRS - INSU (CNRS Terre & Univers)
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A remarkable achievement, made possible by the #APERO_cruise and our international collaboration.
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Our last publication by Pauline Le Coq et al. This work highlights the critical role of mesopelagic microbes (attached to sinking particles and those living freely or attached to suspended particles) in carbon cycling—a key advancement for refining climate models.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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