Clean access, measurement and sampling of Antarctic subglacial lake environments

• Published in: Reviews of Geophysics
• Main Authors: Siegert, Martin, Clarke, Rachel, Mowlem, Matt, Ross, Neil, Hill, Christopher, Tait, Andrew, Hodgson, Dominic, Parnell, John, Tranter, Martyn, Pearce, David, Bentley, Michael, Cockell, Charles, Tsaloglou, Maria-Nefeli, Smith, Andrew, Woodward, John, Brito, Mario, Waugh, Edward
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2012
• Subjects: F800 Physical and Terrestrial Geographical and Environmental Sciences; Antarctic; Ellsworth Subglacial Lake; Vostok Subglacial Lake; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/7071/; https://doi.org/10.1029/2011RG000361; https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/7071/1/2011RG000361.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...