Export of Organic Matter and Microbes from the Greenland Ice Sheet: Sources, Composition, and Downstream Implications

Tyler J Kohler1, Jakub Dan Zarsky1, Karen Cameron2,3, Guillaume Lamarche-Gagnon4, Jon Hawkings5, Jon Telling6, Andrew Tedstone5,7, Jemma Wadham8, Carsten Suhr Jacobsen3,9, Jacob C Yde10 and Marek Stibal1, (1)Charles University, Department of Ecology, Prague, Czech Republic, (2)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Department of Geochemistry, København K, Denmark, (3)University of Copenhagen, Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), København K, Denmark, (4)University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (5)University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, (6)Newcastle University, Department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom, (7)University of Edinburgh, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (8)University of Bristol, Bristol Glaciology Centre, Bristol, United Kingdom, (9)Aarhus University, Department of Environmental Science, Aarhus C, Denmark, (10)Sogn og Fjordane University College, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Sogndal, Norway