Current Research Projects

• Fate of ancient carbon caused by permafrost coastal erosion into marine environments.

• Microbial life at the cold-arid limits in dry permafrost in Elephants head, Antarctica.

• Potential presence of the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus in the sewage-impacted waterways of urban megacities.

• Colonization of pumice stones from a recently erupted underwater volcano in the South Pacific

Featured Publications

For the most up to date list of publications, please see my google scholar page.

• Goordial, J., Davila, A., Lacelle, D.,Pollard, W., Marinova, M., Greer, C., DiRuggiero, J., McKay, C., Whyte, L. Nearing the cold-arid limits of microbial life in permafrost of an upper Dry Valley, Antarctica. International Society of Microbial Ecology (ISME) journal, 2016. 10 (7), 1613-1624. ( Editors’ Choice: The best of The ISME Journal 2016-2017)
• Goordial, J., Davila, A., Greer, C., Canam, R., DiRuggiero, J., McKay, C., Whyte, L.  2017. Comparative activity and functional ecology of permafrost and cryptoendolithic microbial communities in a hyper-arid upper Dry Valley, Antarctica.  Environmental Microbiology. 19 (2) 443-458.
• Orcutt, B.N., Bradley, J., Brazelton, W.J., Estes, E., Goordial, J., Huber, J.A., Jones, R.M, Mahmoudi, N., Marlow, J.J., Murdock, S., Pachiadaki, M., Tivey, M.K. 2020. Impacts of Deep-Sea Mining on Microbial Ecosystem Services. Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11403
• Goordial, J. Altschuler, I., Hindson, K., Yan-Cham, K., Marcolefas, E., Leveille, R., Whyte, L. 2017. In situ field sequencing and life detection in remote (79°26′N) Canadian High Arctic permafrost ice wedge microbial communities.  Frontiers in Microbiology.  doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02594.