Scientific access into Mercer Subglacial Lake: scientific objectives, drilling operations and initial observations

• Published in: Annals of Glaciology
• Main Authors: Priscu, John C., Kalin, Jonas, Winans, John, Campbell, Timothy, Siegfried, Matthew R., Skidmore, Mark, Dore, John E., Leventer, Amy, Harwood, David M., Duling, Dennis, Zook, Robert, Burnett, Justin, Gibson, Dar, Krula, Edward, Mironov, Anatoly, McManis, Jim, Roberts, Graham, Rosenheim, Brad E., Christner, Brent C., Kasic, Kathy, Fricker, Helen A., Lyons, W. Berry, Barker, Joel, Bowling, Mark, Collins, Billy, Davis, Christina, Gagnon, Al, Gardner, Christopher, Gustafson, Chloe, Kim, Ok-Sun, Li, Wei, Michaud, Alex, Patterson, Molly O., Tranter, Martyn, Venturelli, Ryan, Vick-Majors, Trista, Elsworth, Cooper
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; Mercer; Annals of Glaciology; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aog.2021.10; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0260305521000100

Abstract The Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA) Project accessed Mercer Subglacial Lake using environmentally clean hot-water drilling to examine interactions among ice, water, sediment, rock, microbes and carbon reservoirs within the lake water column and underlying sediments. A ~...