Publications

Publications in 2025-

*Shaffer JMC, Sklute EC, Samples RM, Giddings L, **Jarrett A, Mateos K, Dyar MD, Lee PA, Livi KJT, +Mikucki JA. 2025.Multi-technique characterization of iron reduction by an Antarctic Shewanella: an analog system for putative Martian biosignature identification. Appl Environ Microbiol91:e02528-24.https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.02528-24

Publications in 2020-24

*Clance, J.J., *Shaffer, J., Cable, M., Paton, M., Stenner, C., Szynkiewicz, A., *Vinnes, O., Williams-Jones, G., Graham, K. and +Mikucki, J.A. (2024) Biogeochemistry of the rare sulfidic glaciovolcanic cave system on Mount Meager, British Columbia, Canada. Frontiers in Geochemistry, 2, p.1410338. 

Samples, R., Mukoyama, R., *Shaffer, J., +Mikucki, J.A. and Giddings, L.A. (2023) OpenASAP: An affordable 3D printed atmospheric solids analysis probe (ASAP) mass spectrometry system for direct analysis of solid and liquid samples. HardwareX, 16, p.e00490.

*Schuler, C.G. and +Mikucki, J.A. (2023) Microbial ecology and activity of snow algae within a Pacific Northwest snowpack. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 55(1), p.2233785.

+Mikucki, J.A. and E.M. Fozo (2023) Exploring representation in Microbiology introductory courses can encourage a more inclusive and inspiring environment for students and instructors. Feminist Pedagogy, 4(2), p.9.

+Mikucki, J.A., *C.G. Schuler, I. Digel, J. Kowalski, M.J. Tuttle, *M. Chua, **R. Davis, *A. M. Purcell, #D. Ghosh, G. Francke, M. Feldmann, C. Espe, D. Heinen, B. Dachwald, J. Clemens, W.B. Lyons, S. Tulaczyk, and the MIDGE Science Team. Accepted. Field-based planetary protection operations for melt probes: validation of clean access into the Blood Falls, Antarctica englacial ecosystem. Astrobiology. 23(11): 1165-1178: 10.1089/ast.2021.0102

*Schuler, C.G., D. Winebrenner, T. Elam, **B. Boles, J. Burnett, +J. Mikucki. (2023) Microbial transport by a descending ice melting probe; implications for subglacial and Ocean World exploration. Astrobiology. 1531-1074: 10.1089/ast.2021.0106

*Shaffer, J.M. L-A. Giddings, R.M. Samples, +J.A. Mikucki.  (2023) Genomic and phenotypic characterization of a red-pigmented strain of Massilia frigida isolated from an Antarctic microbial mat. Frontiers in Microbiology; 14: fmicb.2023.1156033

Gutterman, W.S., P.T. Doran, R.A. Virginia, J.E. Barrett, K.F. Myers, S.M. Tulaczyk, N.T. Foley, +J.A. Mikucki, H.A. Dugan, D.J. Grombacher, T.S. Bording, E. Auken. (2023) Causes and Characteristics of Electrical Resistivity Variability in Shallow (<4 m) Soils in Taylor Valley, East Antarctica. JGR Earth Surfaces; 128(2) e2022JF006696

O’Brien, K.M., E.L. Crockett, B.J. Adams, C.D. Amsler, H.J. Appiah-Madson, A. Collins, T. Desvignes, H. W. Detrich III, D.L. Distel, S.M. Eppley, B.W. Frable, N.M. Franz, J.M. Grim, K.M. Kocot, A.R. Mahon, T.J. Mayfield-Meyer, +J.A. Mikucki, W.E. Moser, M. Schmull, C.A. Seid, C.R. Smith, A.E. Todgham, G.J. Watkins-Colwell. (2022) The time is right for an Antarctic biorepository network. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA; 119(50) e2212800119 

Dugan, H.A., Doran, P., Grombacher, D., Auken, E., Bording, T., Foged, N., Foley, N., +Mikucki, J., Virginia, R. & Tulaczyk, S. (2022) Brief communication: The hidden labyrinth: Deep groundwater in Wright Valley, Antarctica. The Cryosphere Discussions, pp.1-8.

Sklute, E.C., +Mikucki, J.A., Dyar, M.D., Lee, P., Livi, K., & Mitchell, S. (2022). A Multi-Technique analysis of surface materials from Blood Falls, Antarctica. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 9. doi:10.3389/fspas.2022.843174

Livingstone, S. J., Li, Y., Rutishauser, A., Sanderson, R. J., Winter, K., +Mikucki, J.A., Sole, A. J. (2022). Subglacial lakes and their changing role in a warming climate. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, 3(2), 156. doi:10.1038/s43017-022-00262-3

Madsen, L.M., Bording, T., Grombacher, D., Foged, N., Foley, N., Dugan, H., +Mikucki, J.A., Auken, E. (2022). Comparison of ground-based and airborne transient electromagnetic methods for mapping glacial and permafrost environments: Cases from McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Cold Regions Science and Technology, 199, 103578. doi:10.1016/j.coldregions.2022.103578 

Neuhaus, S. U., Tulaczyk, S. M., Stansell, N. D., Coenen, J. J., Scherer, R. P., +Mikucki, J.A., and Powell, R. D. (2021). Did Holocene climate changes drive West Antarctic grounding line retreat and readvance? Cryosphere, 15(10), 4655-4673. doi:10.5194/tc-15-4655-2021 

Myers, K. F., Doran, P. T., Tulaczyk, S. M., Foley, N. T., Bording, T. S., Auken, E., +Mikucki, J.A., Virginia, R. A. (2021). Thermal legacy of a large paleolake in Taylor Valley, East Antarctica, as evidenced by an airborne electromagnetic survey. Cryosphere, 15(8), 3577-3593. doi:10.5194/tc-15-3577-2021 

**Boles, B. W., Murdoch, R.W., #Ohlsson, I., & +Mikucki, J.A. (2021). Draft genome sequence of Shewanella sp. Strain BF02-Schw, Isolated from Blood Falls, a feature where subglacial brine discharges to the surface of Taylor Glacier, Antarctica. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 10(22). doi:10.1128/MRA.01141-20

Grombacher, D., Auken, E., Foged, N., Bording, T., Foley, N., Doran, P. T., +Mikucki, J.A., Tulaczyk, S. (2021). Induced polarization effects in airborne transient electromagnetic data collected in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Geophysical Journal International, 226(3), 1574-1583. doi:10.1093/gji/ggab148 

Vick‐Majors, T.J., Michaud, A.B., Skidmore, M.L., Turetta, C., Barbante, C., Christner, B.C., Dore, J.E., Christianson, K., Mitchell, A.C., Achberger, A.M. and +Mikucki, J.A. et al. (2020). Biogeochemical connectivity between freshwater ecosystems beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the sub‐ice marine environment. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 34(3), e2019GB006446

Cook, C., Byrne, S., d’Aubigny, C.D., Viola, D., +Mikucki, J. and Ellis, W. (2020). Detection Limits for Chiral Amino Acids Using a Polarization Camera. The Planetary Science Journal, 1(2), p.46. 

Stibal, M., Bradley, J.A., Edwards, A., Hotaling, S., Zawierucha, K., Rosvold, J., Lutz, S., Cameron, K.A., +Mikucki, J.A., Kohler, T.J. and Šabacká, M. (2020). Glacial ecosystems are essential to understanding biodiversity responses to glacier retreat. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4(5), pp.686-687.

Publications in 2015-2019

German, L., Mikucki, J.A., Welch, S.A., Kathleen A, W., Lutton, A., Dachwald, B., Kowalski, J., Heinen, D., Feldmann, M., Francke, G. and Espe, C. (2019). Validation of sampling Antarctic subglacial hypersaline waters with an electrothermal ice melting probe (IceMole) for environmental analytical geochemistry. International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, pp.1-14. 

Foley, N., Tulaczyk, S.M., Grombacher, D., Doran, P.T., +Mikucki, J., Myers, K.F., Foged, N., Dugan, H., Auken, E. and Virginia, R. (2019). Evidence for Pathways of Concentrated Submarine Groundwater Discharge in East Antarctica from Helicopter-Borne Electrical Resistivity Measurements. Hydrology, 6(2), p.54.

Foley, N., Tulaczyk, S., Auken, E., Grombacher, D., +Mikucki, J., Foged, N., Myers, K., Dugan, H., Doran, P.T. and Virginia, R.A. (2019). Mapping geothermal heat flux using permafrost thickness constrained by airborne electromagnetic surveys on the western coast of Ross Island, Antarctica. Exploration Geophysics, pp.1-10.

#Campen, R., J. Kowalski, W.B. Lyons, S. Tulaczyk, B. Dachwald, E. Pettit, K. A. Welch, +J.A. Mikucki (2019) Microbial diversity of an Antarctic groundwater community and high resolution, replicate sampling inform hydrological connectivity in a polar desert.  Environmental Microbiology. 21(7): 2290-2306.

Lyons, W.B., +J.A. Mikucki, L. A. German, K.A. Welch, S.A. Welch, C.B. Gardner, S.M. Tulaczyk, E.C. Pettit, J. Kowalski, B. Dachwald and the EnEx Team. The Geochemistry of Englacial Brine from Taylor Glacier, Antarctica. (2019) Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences. 124(3), pp.633-648.

Branecky-Begeman, C., S.M. Tulaczyk, O.J. Marsh, +J.A. Mikucki, T.P. Stanton, T.O. Hodson, M.R. Siegfried, R.D. Powell, K. Christianson, and M.A. King. (2018) Ocean stratification and low melt rates at the Ross Ice Shelf grounding zone. Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans. 123(10), pp.7438-7452. 

*Chua, M.J., #Campen, R.L., **Wahl, L., Grzymski, J.J. and +Mikucki, J.A. (2018) Genomic and physiological characterization and description of Marinobacter gelidimuriae sp. nov., a psychrophilic, moderate halophile from Blood Falls, an Antarctic subglacial brine. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 94(3), p.fiy021. 

Robinson J.M. and +Mikucki J.A. (2018) Occupied and empty regions of the space of extremophile parameters, In Astrobiology Exploring Life on Earth and Beyond, R.Gordon and A. A. Sharov (Eds). In: Habitability of the Universe Before Earth. Academic Press, pp 199–230.

Badgeley, J.A., Pettit, E.C., Carr, C.G., Tulaczyk, S., +Mikucki, J.A. and Lyons, W.B. (2017) An englacial hydrologic system of brine within a cold glacier: Blood Falls, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Journal of Glaciology, 63(239), pp.387-400. 

Vick-Majors, T.J., Mitchell, A.C., Achberger, A.M., Christner, B.C., Dore, J.E., Michaud, A.B., +Mikucki, J.A., *Purcell, A.M., Skidmore, M.L., Priscu, J.C. and Team, T.W.S. (2016) Physiological ecology of microorganisms in Subglacial Lake Whillans. Frontiers in Microbiology, 7. 

+Mikucki, J.A., Lee, P., #Ghosh, D., *Purcell, A., Mitchell, A. Mankoff, K. Fisher, A., Tulaczyk, S., Carter, S., Siegfried, M. Fricker, H., Hodson, T., Coenen, J., Powell, R., Scherer, R. P., Vick-Majors, T., Achberger, A., Christner, B., Tranter, M. and the WISSARD Science Team. (2015) Subglacial Lake Whillans Microbial Biogeochemistry: A synthesis of current knowledge. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. 374.2059: 20140290.

Foley, N. Tulaczyk, S., Auken, E., Schamper, C., Dugan, H., +Mikucki, J., Virginia, R., Doran, P. (2015) Helicopter borne transient electromagnetics in high latitude environments: an application in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Geophysics, 81(1), WA87-WA99. 

Vick-Majors, T., A., Amanda; Santibáñez, P.; Dore, J.; Hodson, T.; Michaud, A.; Christner, B., +Mikucki, J.; Skidmore, Mark; Powell, Ross; Adkins, W.; Barbante, Carlo; Mitchell, Andrew; Scherer, R. and J. Priscu. (2015) Biogeochemistry and microbial diversity in the marine cavity beneath the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Limnology & Oceanography doi:10.1002/lno.10234.

Kowalski, J. and P. Linder, S. Zierke, B. von Wulfen, J. Clemens, K.Konstantinidis, G. Ameresg, R. Homannh, +J. Mikucki, S. Tulaczykj, O. Funkek, D. Blandforta, C. Espea, M. Feldmann, G. Francke, S. Hiecker, E. Plescher, S. Schöngarth, K. Schüller, B. Dachwald, I. Digel, G. Artmann, D. Eliseev, D. Heinen, F. Scholz, C.Wiebusch, S. Macht, U. Bestmann, T. Reineking, C. Zetzsche, K. Schill, R. Förstner, H. Niedermeier, A. Szumski, B. Eissfeller, U. Naumannh and K. Helbing. (2015) Navigation technology for exploration of glacier ice with maneuverable melting probes Cold Regions Science and Technology, 123, 53-70.

Boetius, A., A. Anesio, J. Deming, +J. Mikucki and J. Rapp. (2015) Microbial ecology of the cryosphere: sea ice and glacial habitats. Nature Review Microbiology doi:10.1038/nrmicro3522. 

+Mikucki, J., E. Auken, S. Tulaczyk, R.A. Virginia, C. Schamper, K.I. Sørensen, P.T. Doran, H. Dugan, and N. Foley. (2015) Deep groundwater and potential subsurface habitats beneath an Antarctic dry valley. Nature Communications. 6, Article number: 6831 doi:10.1038/ncomms7831. 

Dugan, H. P. T. Doran, S. Tulaczyk, +J.A. Mikucki, S. A. Arcone, E. Auken, C. Schamper, R.A. Virginia (2015) Subsurface imaging reveals a confined aquifer beneath an ice-sealed Antarctic lake. Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, doi:10.1002/2014GL062431.

Publications in 2010-14

Rummel, J.D., D.W. Beaty, M.A. Jones, C. Bakermans, N.G. Barlow, P. Boston, V. Chevrier, B.C. Clark, J-P. de Vera, R.V. Gough, J.E. Hallsworth, J.W. Head, V.J. Hipkin, T.L. Kieft, A.S. McEwen, M.T. Mellon, +J. Mikucki, W.L. Nicholson, C.R. Omelon, R. Peterson, E. Roden, B. Sherwood Lollar, K.L. Tanaka, D. Viola, and J.J. Wray. (2014) A new analysis of Mars ‘Special Regions’: Findings of the second MEPAG special regions science analysis group (SR-SAG2).  Astrobiology. V14: (11).

*Purcell, A.M., +J. Mikucki, A.M. Achberger, B.C. Christner, #D. Ghosh, A.B. Michaud, A.C. Mitchell, J.C. Priscu, R. Scherer, M.L. Skidmore, T.J. Vick-Majors, and the WISSARD Science Team. (2014) Microbial transformations of sulfur in Subglacial Lake Whillans sediments. Frontiers in Microbiology: Terrestrial Portals into the Deep Biosphere 5: 594.

Christner, B.C., J. Priscu, A. Achberger, C. Barbante, S. Carter, K. Christianson, A. Michaud, +J. Mikucki, A. Mitchell, M. Skidmore, and T. Vick-Majors. (2014) A microbial ecosystem beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Nature 512(310-313).

S. Tulaczyk, +J.A. Mikucki, M.R. Siegried, J.C. Priscu, C.G. Barcheck, L. H. Beem, A. Behar, J. Burnett, B.C. Christner, A.T. Fisher, H.A. Fricker, K. D. Mankoff, R.D. Powell, F. Rack, D. Sampson, R.P. Sherer, S. Y. Schwartz, and The WISSARD Science Team.  (2014) WISSARD at Subglacial Lake Whillans, West Antarctica: scientific operations and initial observations. Annals of Glaciology 55(65), 51-58.

Dachwald, B., +J. Mikucki, S. Tulaczyk, I. Digel, M. Feldmann, C. Espe, G. Francke, J. Kowalski, X. Changsheng. (2014) IceMole: A Maneuverable Probe for Clean In-Situ Analysis and Sampling of Subsurface Ice and Subglacial Aquatic Ecosystems. Annals of Glaciology. 55(65), 14–22.

Doran, P.T., F. Kenig, J. Lawson-Knoepfle, +J. Mikucki and W.B. Lyons. (2014) Radiocarbon abundance in lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Limnology and Oceanography. 59(3), 2014, 811-826.

Mikucki, J.A., S.K. Han and B.D. Lanoil (2011) Subglacial and Permafrost Environments In: Ecology of Psychrophiles. F. Robb (ed).

Fricker, H.A., R. Powell, J. Priscu, S. Tulaczyk, S. Anandakrishnan, B. Christner, D. Holland, H. Horgan, R. Jacobel, +J. Mikucki, A. Mitchell, R. Scherer, and J. Severinghaus. (2010) Siple Coast Subglacial Aquatic Environments: The Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project. Proceedings of the Chapman Conference on the Exploration and Study of Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments. M. Siegert, M. Kennicutt (eds). American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C. 

+Mikucki, J.A., W.B. Lyons, I. Hawes, B.D. Lanoil, P.T. Doran. (2010) Saline lakes and ponds in the McMurdo Dry Valleys: ecological analogs to Martian paleolake environments. In: Life in Antarctic Deserts and Other Cold Dry Environments: Astrobiological Analogues. P.T. Doran, W.B. Lyons, and D. McKnight, (eds). 

Publications in 2005-2009

+Mikucki, J.A., A. Pearson, D.T. Johnston, A.V. Turchyn, J. Farquhar, D.P. Schrag, A.D. Anbar, J.C. Priscu and P.A. Lee. (2009) A contemporary microbially-maintained ferrous subglacial ‘ocean.’  Science. 324: 397-400.

Foreman, C.M., B. Sattler, +J.A. Mikucki, D.L. Porazinska, and J.C. Priscu. (2007) Metabolic activity and diversity of cryoconites in the Taylor Valley, Antarctica, Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 112, G04S32, doi:10.1029/2006JG000358.

Neslon, D.M., F.S. Hu, +J.A. Mikucki, J. Tian, and A. Pearson. 2007. Carbon isotopic analysis of individual pollen grains from C3 and C4 grasses using a moving-wire combustion interface. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 71(16):4005-4014.

+Mikucki, J.A. and J.C. Priscu. (2007) Bacterial diversity associated with Blood Falls, a subglacial outflow from the Taylor Glacier, Antarctica. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 73(12):4029-4039.

Christner, B.C., +J.A. Mikucki, C.M. Foreman, J. Denson, and J.C. Priscu. (2005) Glacial ice cores: A model system for developing extraterrestrial decontamination protocols. Icarus 174:572-584. 

Priscu, J.C., E.E. Adams, H.W. Paerl, C.H. Fritsen, J.E. Dore, J.T. Lisle, C. F. Wolf and +J.A. Mikucki. (2005) Perennial Antarctic lake ice: a refuge for Cyanobacteria in an extreme environment. In: Life In Ancient Ice.  S. Rogers and J. Castello (eds). Princeton Press. 

Publications in 1999-2004

+Mikucki, J.A., C.M. Foreman, B. Sattler, W.B. Lyons, and J.C. Priscu. (2004) Geomicrobiology of Blood Falls: An iron-rich saline discharge at the terminus of the Taylor Glacier, Antarctica.  Aquatic Geochemistry. 10(3-4):199-220.

Lee, P.A, +J.A. Mikucki, C.M. Foreman, J.C. Priscu, G.R. DiTullio, S.F. Riseman, S.J. deMora, C.F. Wolf and L. Kester. (2004) Thermodynamic constraints on microbially mediated processes in lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica.  Geomicrobiology Journal 21:1-17.

+Mikucki, J.A., Y. Liu, M. Delwiche, F.S. Colwell, and D.R. Boone. (2002) Methanoculleus submarinus sp. nov., a novel methanogen isolated from deep marine sediments that contain methane hydrates.  Applied and Environmental Microbiology 69(6):3311-3316.

Cahoon, L.B., +J.A. Mikucki, and M.A. Mallin. (1999) Nitrogen and phosphorus imports to the Cape Fear and Neuse River basins to support intensive livestock production. Environmental Science and Technology 33(3):410-415.