Background

A little history of how BAPs came to be.

Initially, the work on North Andros started in 2011 as part of Katie’s PhD which is looking at the early meteoric diagenesis of modern carbonate environments.  In layman’s terms, the work is looking at what happens when freshwater interacts with young limestone (this is the modern carbonate environments) and how this rock subsequently changes physically (this is diagenesis). However, during the first visit to North Andros back in January 2011, both Fiona and Katie decided there was SO much of scientific interest on the island that the work had to expand just Katie’s PhD.


The next stage of the expansion of the project was to encourage collaborations with other researchers and get them excited about this amazing island.  This is when we encouraged Alex temporally away from Greenland and to warmer climates in September 2011.  This trip was a bumper field campaign with both Fiona and Alex, along with Katie and a field assistant Emma Gould, running about the island getting excited about even more aspects of the freshwater system and how variable and diverse the microbial community was.  Two over enthusiastic supervisors definitely meant more work for Katie and the development of more side projects and this is how BAPs began!