They brought the samples back to the lab, extracted diatoms from the ice cores, recreated their environments in a petri dish containing a thin layer of frozen freshwater, a layer of very cold saltwater

“You can see the diatoms actually gliding, like they are skating on the ice,” said lead author and Stanford postdoctoral scholar Qing Zhang, who collected the samples during an #Arcticresearch expedition to the #StanfordReport