Martyn Tranter

Research interests

Publications

• Glacier algae accelerate melt rates on the south-western Greenland Ice Sheet

  ˜The œcryosphere · 2020 · 10.5194/tc-14-309-2020

• Algal photophysiology drives darkening and melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 10.1073/pnas.1918412117

• Ice sheets as a missing source of silica to the polar oceans

  Nature Communications · 2017 · 10.1038/ncomms14198

• Algae Drive Enhanced Darkening of Bare Ice on the Greenland Ice Sheet

  Geophysical Research Letters · 2017 · 10.1002/2017gl075958

• Glacier shrinkage driving global changes in downstream systems

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1619807114

• The Greenland Ice Sheet as a hot spot of phosphorus weathering and export in the Arctic

  Global Biogeochemical Cycles · 2016 · 10.1002/2015gb005237

• Ice sheets as a significant source of highly reactive nanoparticulate iron to the oceans

  Nature Communications · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4929

• Potential methane reservoirs beneath Antarctica

  Nature · 2012 · 10.1038/nature11374

• Photophysiology and albedo-changing potential of the ice algal community on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet

  The ISME Journal · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2012.107

• Clean access, measurement, and sampling of Ellsworth Subglacial Lake: A method for exploring deep Antarctic subglacial lake environments

  Reviews of Geophysics · 2011 · 10.1029/2011rg000361

• Biogeochemical weathering under ice: Size matters

  Global Biogeochemical Cycles · 2010 · 10.1029/2009gb003688

• Bioavailable iron in the Southern Ocean: the significance of the iceberg conveyor belt

  Geochemical Transactions · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1186/1467-4866-9-7

• GLACIAL ECOSYSTEMS

  Ecological Monographs · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1890/07-0187.1

• Microbial primary production on an Arctic glacier is insignificant in comparison with allochthonous organic carbon input

  Environmental Microbiology · 2008 · 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01620.x

• Biogeochemical evolution of cryoconite holes on Canada Glacier, Taylor Valley, Antarctica

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2007 · 10.1029/2007jg000442

• Contributions from glacially derived sediment to the global iron (oxyhydr)oxide cycle: Implications for iron delivery to the oceans

  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 2006 · 10.1016/j.gca.2005.12.027

• Limnological conditions in Subglacial Lake Vostok, Antarctica

  Limnology and Oceanography · 2006 · 10.4319/lo.2006.51.6.2485

• The Biodiversity and Biogeochemistry of Cryoconite Holes from McMurdo Dry Valley Glaciers, Antarctica

  Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research · 2004 · 10.1657/1523-0430(2004)036[0084:tbaboc]2.0.co;2

• Evolution of cryoconite holes and their contribution to meltwater runoff from glaciers in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

  Journal of Glaciology · 2004 · 10.3189/172756504781830312

• Geochemical weathering at the bed of Haut Glacier d'Arolla, Switzerland—a new model

  Hydrological Processes · 2002 · 10.1002/hyp.309

• Physical, chemical and biological processes in Lake Vostok and other Antarctic subglacial lakes

  Nature · 2001 · 10.1038/414603a

• Widespread bacterial populations at glacier beds and their relationship to rock weathering and carbon cycling

  Geology · 1999 · 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0107:wbpagb>2.3.co;2

• Biogeochemistry of seasonally snow-covered catchments

  Bristol Research (University of Bristol) · 1995

• Rates of chemical denudation and CO drawdown in a glacier-covered alpine catchment

  Geology · 1995 · 10.1130/0091-7613(1995)023<0061:rocdac>2.3.co;2

• A conceptual model of solute acquisition by Alpine glacial meltwaters

  Journal of Glaciology · 1993 · 10.1017/s0022143000016464

Current projects

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