PEAK-Expert
Birgit Sattler
Focus
MICROBIAL ECOLOGY OF GLACIERS
Contact
email:
Birgit.sattler@uibk.ac.at
phone:
+43 512 507 51731
web:
Research Group Lake and Glacier Ecology
Speaks: English, German
Birgit Sattler, limnologist at the Institute of Ecology at the University of Innsbruck, studies microbial life on glaciers and in glacier caves in the high mountains and in the polar regions and investigates the effects of the climate crisis on these sensitive ecosystems.
Focus cloud: Microbial life, ice, snow, glaciers, ecosystem, polar research, Arctic, Antarctic, citizen science, climate, climate crisis
About
Birgit Sattler has been an associate professor at the Institute of Ecology at the University of Innsbruck since 2011. In her research she focuses on the sensitive ecosystems of glaciers, especially with regard to the climate crisis, using state-of-the-art molecular biological and analytical methods. To date, she has taken part in almost 20 polar journeys, all of which are incorporated into her research work as a limnologist of the frozen biosphere. Sattler is Vice President of the Austrian Institute for Polar Research, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Society for Polar Research and Austria's delegate to the Antarctic Treaty.