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Professor David Pearce

Professor

Department: Applied Sciences

The underlying theme of my research is to use microbiology (and in particular novel molecular techniques applied to microbial ecology, microbial biodiversity and activity, environmental genomics, biogeochemical cycling and model extremophiles) to understand Polar ecosystem function and the potential for shifts in biogeochemical activity that may result from environmental change. I have taken the lead in the development of new frontiers of research in metagenomics, chemosynthetic communities, sediment sequestration of carbon and subglacial lake environments and have initiated new interdisciplinary approaches on the aerial environment (with chemists), ice nucleation activity (with physicists) and in the biogeochemistry of ice (with glaciologists).

Further Information

https://sites.google.com/site/davidanthonypearce/
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk
http://www.unis.no
http://www.ellsworth.org.uk/pearce.html
http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/chess/science/chesso.html

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  • Ancient environmental microbiomes and the cryosphere, Williams, A., Leung, V., Tang, J., Hidekazu, N., Suzuki, N., Clarke, A., Pearce, D., Lam, T. 1 Feb 2025, In: Trends in Microbiology
  • Crucial stepping stones in freshwater microbiology, Pearce, D., Lawrence, J., Avila Jimenez, M. Jan 2025, In: Nature Microbiology
  • Daily turnover of airborne bacterial communities in the sub-Antarctic, Malard, L., Convey, P., Pearce, D. 18 Jul 2025, In: Environmental Microbiome
  • House dust - a Pandora’s box of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) activity?, Pearce, D., Crown, M., Nelson, A., Jabeen, K., Thompson, J., Argyraki, A., Hursthouse, A., Bashton, M., Entwistle, J. 16 Sep 2025, In: Sustainable Microbiology
  • Landsystem models from remote and field based geomorphological mapping reveal diverse glacier dynamics on Svalbard, McCerery, R., Davies, B., Lovell, H., Calvo-Ryan, R., Pearce, D., Małecki, J., Woodward, J. 1 Sep 2025, In: Geomorphology
  • Microbial communities in sediments from different landform systems, Svalbard, McCerery, R., Woodward, J., Fernández Juliá, P., Calvo-Ryan, R., Muñoz-Muñoz, J., Davies, B., Pearce, D. 24 Sep 2025, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
  • Persistent and Emerging Threats to Arctic Biodiversity and Ways to Overcome Them: A Horizon Scan, Lemieux, T., Coles, J., Haley, A., LaFlamme, M., Steel, S., Scott, K., Provencher, J., Price, C., Bennett, J., Barrio, I., Findlay, H., Goodman, S., Matthews, B., Näslund, J., Pearce, D., Hollister, R., Mallory, M., Smith, P., Schaepman-Strub, G., Cooke, S. Jan 2025, In: Arctic Science
  • Preparation protocol for epifluorescence microscopy when working close to the detection limit, McCerery, R., Hall, L., Omanakuttan, J., Chai, H., Lawrence, J., Woodward, J., Pearce, D. 1 Mar 2025, In: Letters in Applied Microbiology
  • Announcing sustainable microbiology: How microbes make a sustainable world, Pearce, D. 24 Jan 2024, In: Sustainable Microbiology
  • Antarctic Blue Ice Areas are hydrologically active, nutrient rich and contain microbially diverse cryoconite holes, Nowak, A., Isaksson, E., Sunde, Ø., Elvevold, S., Sandven, H., Moholdt, G., Hudson, S., Urset, A., Edwards, A., Rassner, S., Pearce, D., Hamre, B., Hodson, A. 24 Jun 2024, In: Communications Earth and Environment

  • Hannes Kade Deep Antarctic Subglacial Lake Exploration; Diversity, Geochemistry and Ecology Start Date: 01/10/2024
  • James Lawrence Antarctic Subglacial Lake Microbiology Start Date: 01/10/2023
  • Isis Cohen Nicholson Restored or reinvented? Assessing the success of peatland restoration pilot projects in the Northumberland National Parks using environmental DNA (eDNA) Start Date: 01/10/2023
  • Carmel Abbott Colonisation strategies of bacteria in extreme environments and health implications in the human exploration of space. Start Date: 01/03/2019
  • Luke Cockerton Targeting functional genes to study bacterial diversity, community structure and stability in the Polar atmosphere Start Date: 01/03/2020 End Date: 04/03/2025
  • Rosalia Calvo Ryan The search for life on icy moons Start Date: 01/03/2020

  • Microbiology PhD June 03 2013
  • Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2015


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