Clean access, measurement, and sampling of Ellsworth Subglacial Lake: a method for exploring deep Antarctic subglacial lake environments

• Published in: Reviews of Geophysics
• Main Authors: Siegert, Martin J., Clarke, Rachel J., Mowlem, Matt, Ross, Neil, Hill, Christopher S., Tait, Andrew, Hodgson, Dominic, Parnell, John, Tranter, Martyn, Pearce, David, Bentley, Michael J., Cockell, Charles, Tsaloglou, Maria-Nefeli, Smith, Andy, Woodward, John, Brito, Mario P., Waugh, Ed
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic; West Antarctica; Ellsworth Subglacial Lake; Vostok Subglacial Lake; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/16496/; http://www.agu.org/journals/rg/rg1201/2011RG000361/2011RG000361.pdf

Antarctic subglacial lakes are thought to be extreme habitats for microbial life and may contain important records of ice sheet history and climate change within their lake floor sediments. To find whether or not this is true, and to answer the science questions that would follow, direct measurement...