Publications
Investigations at the VEMO began in 2010, but here are some recent papers from our work on microbial life in volcanic environments related to the research efforts at Eyjafjallajökull.
- Kelly L, Cockell CS, Piceno YM, Anderson G, Thorsteinsson T, Marteinsson V. 2010.
- Bacterial Diversity of Weathered Terrestrial Icelandic Volcanic Glasses. Microbial Ecology (in press)
- Cockell, C.S., Olsson, K., Herrera, A., Kelly, L., Knowles, F. Thorsteinsson, T., Marteinsson, V. 2009.
- Bacteria in weathered basaltic glass, Iceland. Geomicrobiology Journal 26:491-507
- Cockell CS, Kelly L, Summers S. 2010.
- The Microbiology of Volcanic Environments, Handbook of Extremophiles, Springer (in press).
- Cockell CS. 2010.
- Biological weathering of volcanic rocks. Encyclopedia of Geobiology (Fritz HW, Reitner J, Kappler K, Thiel V, Konhauser K, Reid P, Zhang X, eds). Springer (in press)
- Cockell CS. 2010.
- The Geomicrobiology of Catastrophe - A Comparison of Post-Impact and Volcanic Microbial Colonization. 2010. In Geomicrobiology: Environmental Perspectives. (ed. Barton, LL, Mandl M, Loy A). Springer, 193-217
- Herrera A, Cockell CS, Self S, Blaxter M, Reitner J, Thorsteinsson T, Arp G, Drose, W, Tindle A. 2009.
- A cryptoendolithic community in volcanic glass. Astrobiology 9, 369-381
- Cockell, C.S., Olsson, K., Herrera, A., Meunier, A. 2009.
- Alteration textures in terrestrial volcanic glass and the associated bacterial community. Geobiology 7, 50-65
- Herrera A, Cockell CS, Self S, Blaxter M, Reitner J, Arp G, Drse W, Thorsteinsson T, and Tindle AG. 2008.
- Bacterial colonization and weathering of terrestrial obsidian in Iceland. Geomicrobiology Journal 25, 25-47
- Herrera A, Cockell CS. 2007.
- Exploring Microbial Diversity in Volcanic Environments: A Review of Methods in DNA Extraction. Journal of Microbiological Methods 70, 1-12