Environmentally clean access to Antarctic subglacial aquatic environments

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Michaud, Alexander B., (Vick-Majors, Trista, Achberger, Amanda M., Skidmore, Mark L., Christner, Brent C., Tranter, Martyn, Priscu, John C.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: LSU Digital Commons 2020
• Subjects: environmental stewardship; forward contamination; hot-water drilling; Whillans Subglacial Lake; ICE CORES; LAKE; WATER; MARINE; Environmental Sciences; Geography; Antarctic; Whillans; Whillans Ice Stream; Antarc*; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/biosci_pubs/21; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102020000231; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/context/biosci_pubs/article/1020/viewcontent/Michaud_div_class_title_environmentally_clean_access_to_antarctic_subglacial_aquatic_environments_div.pdf

Subglacial Antarctic aquatic environments are important targets for scientific exploration due to the unique ecosystems they support and their sediments containing palaeoenvironmental records. Directly accessing these environments while preventing forward contamination and demonstrating that it has...