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Curtis-Harper, Elliot; Pearson, Victoria K.; Summers, Stephen; Bridges, John C.; Schwenzer, Susanne P. and Olsson-Francis, Karen (2018). The Microbial Community of a Terrestrial Anoxic Inter-Tidal Zone: A Model for Laboratory-Based Studies of Potentially Habitable Ancient Lacustrine Systems on Mars. Microorganisms, 6(3), article no. 61.

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Boardman, C. P.; Summers, S. S.; Olsson-Francis, K. and Gladding, T. (2017). Plastic Microbial Acclimation and Optimisation of Composting and Anaerobic Digestion Processes may Improve Degradation Times. In: 16th International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium (Sardinia 2017), 2-6 Oct 2017, S. Margherita di Pula, Sardinia, Italy,.

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Summers, Stephen; Thomson, Bruce C.; Whiteley, Andrew and Cockell, Charles S. (2016). Mesophilic mineral-weathering bacteria inhabit the critical-zone of a perennially cold basaltic environment. Geomicrobiology Journal, 33(1) pp. 52–62.

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Olsson-Francis, Karen; Pearson, Victoria K.; Schofield, Paul F.; Oliver, Anna and Summers, Stephen (2016). A Study of the Microbial Community at the Interface between Granite Bedrock and Soil Using a Culture-Independent and Culture-Dependent Approach. Advances in Microbiology, 6(3) pp. 233–245.

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Olsson-Francis, Karen; Pearson, Victoria; Boardman, Carl; Schofield, Paul; Oliver, Anna and Summers, Stephen (2015). A culture-independent and culture-dependent study of the bacteria community from the bedrock soil interface. Advances in Microbiology, 5(13) pp. 842–857.

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Schwenzer, S. P.; Barnes, J. J.; Charlier, B. L.; Grady, M. M.; Hall, C.; Melwani Daswani, M.; Morse, A.; Olsson-Francis, K.; Patel, M.; Pearson, V.; Pillinger, J. M.; Preston, L. J.; Sheridan, S.; Sherlock, S. C.; Steer, E. D.; Summers, S.; Verchovsky, S.; Dove-Jay, A. S.; Jewell, S. and Musilova, M. (2015). Containers, sensors and samples to understand desert weathering. In: 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 16-20 Mar 2015, The Woodlands, TX, USA.

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Summers, Stephen; Whiteley, Andrew S.; Kelly, Laura C. and Cockell, Charles S. (2013). Land coverage influences the bacterial community composition in the critical zone of a sub-Arctic basaltic environment. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 86(3) pp. 381–393.

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Summers, Stephen (2013). The bacterial ecology and function from a sub-surface critical zone. PhD thesis The Open University.

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Kelly, Laura C.; Cockell, Charles S. and Summers, Stephen (2012). Diverse microbial species survive high ammonia concentrations. International Journal of Astrobiology, 11(2) pp. 125–131.

Cockell, Charles S.; Kelly, Laura C.; Summers, Stephen and Marteinsson, Viggo (2011). Following the kinetics: iron-oxidizing microbial mats in cold Icelandic volcanic habitats and their rock-associated carbonaceous signature. Astrobiology, 11(7) pp. 679–694.

Cockell, Charles; Kelly, Laura and Summers, Stephen (2011). Microbiology of volcanic environments. In: Horikoshi, Koki ed. Extremophiles Handbook. Tokyo: Springer, pp. 917–933.