Probe technologies for clean sampling and measurement of subglacial lakes

• Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
• Main Authors: Mowlem, Matt, Saw, Kevin, Brown, Robin, Waugh, Edward, Cardwell, Christopher L., Wyatt, James, Magiopoulos, Iordanis, Keen, Peter, Campbell, Jon, Rundle, Nicholas, Gkritzalis-Papadopoulos, Athanasios
• Other Authors: NERC, SLE Consortium
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; Lake Vostok; Whillans; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2015.0267; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsta.2015.0267; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rsta.2015.0267

It is 4 years since the subglacial lake community published its plans for accessing, sampling, measuring and studying the pristine, and hitherto enigmatic and very different, Antarctic subglacial lakes, Vostok, Whillans and Ellsworth. This paper summarizes the contrasting probe technologies designed...