Under-shelf ice sampling by ROV reveals specimens of ice-associated crustaceans

• Main Authors: Owsianowski, Nils, Nachtsheim, Dominik, Held, Christoph, Richter, Claudio, Steinmetz, Richard, Bornemann, Horst
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Ice Shelf; Larsen Ice Shelf; Riiser Larsen Ice Shelf; Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/45199/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.51377

Images taken by seal-borne cameras at the Drescher Inlet (Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf) in 2004 led to the discovery of an unknown cryo-benthic community being attached head-down to the underside of the floating ice shelf at depths of around 130-150m (Watanabe et al. 2006). Resolution and exposure of the...