Credit: Photo by Craig Fritz/Sandia National Laboratories
The team from left to right, Jenna Schambach, Sandia National Laboratories technologist; Nicholas Hasson, University of Alaska, Fairbanks graduate research assistant; Tess Hogancamp, Sandia postdoc; Bryce Ricken, Sandia technologist; Chuck Smallwood, Sandia bioengineer and project lead; and André Pellerin, University of Quebec in Rimouski professor; pose with a core of Arctic lakebed soil on a microbe sampling trip in Alaska. Greater understanding of the microbes that produce greenhouse gases in thawing permafrost could improve climate modeling and prediction.