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Antarctica’s ‘green snow’ to spread with global warming

A scientist who led the creation of the first ever large-scale map of microscopic algae on the snow covered Antarctic coastline – so-called ‘green snow’ – has joined the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) to continue his research.

Dr Matt Davey comes to the Oban-based institute from the University of Cambridge and has today published findings in the journal Nature Communications that show the current distribution of the algae and how they are likely to spread as the global temperature increases.

A paper by Dr Laura Movilla, lecturer in Public International Law at the University of Vigo (EMBRC-ES) describing the advances and uncertainties in compliance measures for users from the Nagoya Protocol in the European Union, has been published.

The Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance (AORA) Roadmap outlines how the marine microbiome is at the heart of the ocean as a living system, driving its nutrient and biogeochemical cycles, forming the basis of its food webs, performing essential and yet unknown functions in climate regulation, including buffering the effects of global change.

EMBRC Norway, EMBRC's newest country member, began operations in September 2019. To mark the occasion, representatives from EMBRC Norway and EMBRC's Executive Director met in Bergen for a kick-off event.