Dr Alexandre Anesio

BSc, MSc(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), PhD(Lund, Sweden)

Senior Lecturer in Low Temperature Biogeochemistry

Contact

Office: T1, 12 Berkeley Square
Tel: +44 (0)117 3314157
Fax: +44 (0)117 9287878
Email: a.m.anesio@bristol.ac.uk

Research interests

My research interests are broad, and I combine concepts from Geography, Biology and Chemistry to understand carbon cycle in lakes, streams and polar freshwaters. My research has concentrated in two broad areas. Firstly, I study microbes in the cryosphere. Against all expectations glaciers harbour a highly active microbial community. Bacteria, viruses and microscopic plants thrive in conditions that might be analogous to other planets and to early Earth. Second, I also study a range of climate (e.g., UV radiation and acid rain) and human impacts (e.g., mining and sewage) on freshwaters.

Selected publications

Anesio, AM, Hodson, AJ, Fritz, A, Psenner, R & Sattler, B. 'High microbial activity on glaciers: importance to the global carbon cycle', Global Change Biology, 15, (pp. -955-960), 2009. ISSN: 1354-1013 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01758.x

Stibal, M, Anesio, AM, Blues, CJD & Tranter, M. 'Phosphatase activity and organic phosphorus turnover on a high Arctic glacier', Biogeosciences, 6, (pp. 913-922), 2009. www.biogeosciences.net/6/913/2009/

Sawstrom, C, Lisle, J, Anesio, AM, Priscu, JC & Laybourn-Parry, J. 'Bacteriophage in polar inland waters', Extremophiles, 12, (pp. 167-175), 2008. ISSN: 1431-0651 10.1007/s00792-007-0134-6

Hodson A, Tranter, M, Anesio, AM, Osborn, M, Fountain, A, Laybourn-Parry, J, Sattler, B & Priscu, J. 'Glacial ecosystems', Ecological Monographs, 78(1), (pp. 41-68), 2008. ISSN: 0012-9615 10.1890/07-0187.1