Bacteria beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

• Published in: Environmental Microbiology
• Main Authors: Lanoil, Brian D., Skidmore, Mark, Priscu, John C., Han, Sukkyun, Foo, Wilson, Vogel, Stefan W., Tulaczyk, Slawek, Engelhardt, Hermann
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Blackwell Publishing 2008
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; Kamb Ice Stream; Lake Vostok; The Antarctic; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/15725/; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20090910-103645334

Subglacial environments, particularly those that lie beneath polar ice sheets, are beginning to be recognized as an important part of Earth's biosphere. However, except for indirect indications of microbial assemblages in subglacial Lake Vostok, Antarctica, no sub-ice sheet environments have be...