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Geological Society of America (GSA) : Fellow

Earth Leadership Program (formerly Aldo Leopold Leadership Program) : Fellow

The quest for habitats in the outer Solar System and how to protect exotic pristine environments

Dethiothermospora halolimnae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel moderately halophilic, thermotolerant, bacterium isolated from a brine lake

Light cues drive community-wide transcriptional shifts in the hypersaline South Bay Salt Works

Rethinking the Lake History of Taylor Valley, Antarctica During the Ross Sea I Glaciation

Ice thickness regulates heat flux in permanently ice‐covered lakes

Antarctic Climate Variability & Polar Desert Ecosystems

Antarctic Climate

Biogeochemistry

Antarctic Geophysics

Hydrological Processess

Hydrology of Arctic Environments

LSU Faculty Profile

Google Scholar Citations

Wikipedia Page

What it’s really like to live on an Antarctic base: Meltdowns, claustrophobia and -40 degrees

NASA is bringing rocks back from Mars, but what if those samples contain alien life?

LSU professor researches Antarctica’s extreme climate

Professor leads project to develop cryobot for space exploration

Professor and John Franks Endowed Chair

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