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Josephine Z. Rapp
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Microbial ecologist studying #microbes and their #viruses in #ArcticOcean #Seaice, #Permafrost & #DeepSea.
❄️🌨🌊🏔🏕📷 make me happy. And cats.
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Never thought I’d end up writing a chapter for my favorite textbook from my student days ❄️📚 Honored to co-author Chapter 11 "Phyloecology of sea ice bacteria and archaea" in the 4th edition of Sea Ice. Huge thanks to my awesome co-authors! doi.org/10.1002/9781...

#SeaIce #Microbes
Phyloecology of sea ice bacteria and archaea
This chapter takes a phylogenetic ecological approach to the introduction to sea ice microbes by weaving together our current knowledge of the diversity, distribution, and functions of individual tax....
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August 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Our new review "Life in the Frozen Ocean" is out in Annual Review of Marine Science — on microbes, algae & viruses thriving in sea ice, and what this reveals about evolution and life beyond Earth. Plus: my favorite figure I’ve ever drawn! ❄️🧬🌌
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Life in the Frozen Ocean | Annual Reviews
Present seasonally or year-round in polar and subpolar seas, sea ice is one of the most complex and biologically rich ecosystems on Earth. Throughout the history of our planet, sea ice has periodicall...
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August 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Excited to share our new study exploring chemoautotrophy in subzero Arctic brines. We identified cold-adapted Rubisco enzymes in Thiomicrorhabdus species, suggesting unique adaptations for carbon fixation in extreme conditions. Read more: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #Microbiology #Astrobiology
Chemoautotrophy in subzero environments and the potential for cold-adapted Rubisco | Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Autotrophy, or the fixation of inorganic carbon to biomass, is a key factor in life’s ability to thrive on Earth. Research on autotrophy has focused on plants and algae, but many bacteria are also aut...
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June 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Hi 🧊bsky
I'll be chairing the GRS on Polar Marine Science in Italy this March!
We still have 10 seats available & 5 days left to apply!
Join our ECR community to share your research and discuss the role of sea ice in ecosystem dynamics!

www.grc.org/polar-marine...
#polarresearch #marinescience
February 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM