Anja Rutishauser's guest appearances

Anja Rutishauser

SparkDialog

Stephen Murray

Adam Frank

Guy Consolmagno

Evan Thompson

Tony Milligan

Aubrey de Grey

Nina Strohminger

Ethan Siegel

Avi Loeb

Briana Pobiner

Eric Elnes

David Danks

Jim Bell

David Grinspoon

Peter Kahn

OwlTail

Far beneath the Canadian ice cap, isolated from the sun and the wind, lies two entire lakes.  These subglacial lakes, recently discovered by Anja Rutishauser and her team, seem like they shouldn’t exist at all.  For starters, they have a temperature far below the freezing point of water.  This implies that perhaps these lakes are unique in another way – they are salty, much more so than sea water.  And even though they are cold and sunless, cut off from the atmosphere and deep enough so no sun can penetrate down to their hearts,  they might even host life.  If they do, they might be a terrestrial analog for life in other places in our solar system, like in the underground oceans of Jupiter’s frozen moon, Europa. Today Anja joins us on the podcast to talk about her discovery.  Anja is a PhD candidate at the University of Alberta.  She uses geophysical measurements to study  glaciers and ice caps in the Canadian Arctic. You can follow Anja @anja_ruti. The post Ep 44: Subglacial Lakes and Life on Frozen Moons – with guest Anja Rutishauser appeared first on SparkDialog.

Far beneath the Canadian ice cap, isolated from the sun and the wind, lies two entire lakes.  These subglacial lakes, recently discovered by <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anja_Rutishauser" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Anja Rutishauser</a> and her team, seem like they shouldn’t exist at all.  For starters, they have a temperature far below the freezing point of water.  This implies that perhaps these lakes are unique in another way – they are salty, much more so than sea water.  And even though they are cold and sunless, cut off from the atmosphere and deep enough so no sun can penetrate down to their hearts,  they might even host <a href="http://sparkdialog.com/the-future-universe-teeming-with-life/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">life</a>.  If they do, they might be a terrestrial analog for life in other places in our solar system, like in the underground oceans of Jupiter’s frozen moon, Europa. Today Anja joins us on the podcast to talk about her discovery.  Anja is a PhD candidate at the <a href="https://www.ualberta.ca/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">University of Alberta</a>.  She uses geophysical measurements to study  glaciers and ice caps in the Canadian Arctic. You can follow Anja <a href="https://twitter.com/anja_ruti" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">@anja_ruti</a>. The post <a href="https://sparkdialog.com/subglacial-lakes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ep 44: Subglacial Lakes and Life on Frozen Moons – with guest Anja Rutishauser</a> appeared first on <a href="https://sparkdialog.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SparkDialog</a>.

Ep 44: Subglacial Lakes and Life on Frozen Moons – with guest Anja Rutishauser