Michael N Gooseff¹, Byron Adams², John E Barrett³, Shawn Devlin⁴, Peter T Doran⁵, Adrian Howkins⁶, Diane M McKnight⁷, John C Priscu⁸, Cristina D. Takacs-Vesbach³, Rachael Morgan-Kiss⁹ and Kathleen Ann Welch¹⁰, (1)Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States, (3)University of New Mexico, Biology Department, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (4)University of Montana, Missoula, United States, (5)Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (7)University of Colorado at Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)Montana State University, Land Resources and Environmental Science, Bozeman, MT, United States, (9)University of Miami, Department of Microbiology, Miami, United States, (10)Ohio State Univ, Columbus, OH, United States