Without urgent and major interventions, America's Great Salt Lake could experience ecosystem collapse in the next few years.
These structures might resemble rocks, but are actually dense concentrations of algae and bacteria. In fossil form,As water levels in the Great Salt Lake continue to drop, the modern versions of these 'living fossils' are rapidly drying out. As the underwater microbial mats meet the air, they turn from dark green to white. The bleached remains appear to recoverThe problem is, as the Great Salt Lake shrinks, it is becoming increasingly concentrated with salt.
For several summers now, Frantz has led a team of undergraduate students to to monitor the lake's microbialites in the field and the lab to see what happens when bleached reefs are re-submerged. The trend is very similar to what occurred in the northern part of the Great Salt Lake following the construction of a causeway in the 1950s. This lake-crossing railroad split the body of water into two parts.
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