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Subject(s)

• Subglacial lakes—Antarctica—History [Browse]
• Subglacial lakes—Antarctica—Discovery and exploration [Browse]
• Subglacial lakes—Polar regions—History [Browse]
• Subglacial lakes—Polar regions—Discovery and exploration [Browse]
• Aquatic ecology—Antarctica [Browse]

Related name

• Siegert, Martin J. [Browse]
• Kennicutt, Mahlon C. [Browse]
• Bindschadler, R. A. (Robert A.) [Browse]

Series

Geophysical monograph ; 192. [More in this series]

Summary note

Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments is the first volume on this important and fascinating subject. With its underlying theme of bridging existing knowledge to future research, it is a benchmark in the history of subglacial lake exploration and study, containing up-to-date discussions about the history and background of subglacial aquatic environments and future exploration. The main topics addressed are identification, location, physiography, and hydrology of 387 subglacial lakes; protocols for environmental stewardship and protection of subglacial lake environments; details of three programs aiming to explore Vostok Subglacial Lake, Ellsworth Subglacial Lake, and Whillans Subglacial Lake over the next 3-5 years; assessment of technological requirements for exploration programs based on best practices for environmental stewardship and scientific success; and knowledge of subglacial lakes as habitats for microbial life and as recorders of past climate and ice sheet change. Its uniqueness, breadth, and inclusiveness will appeal to microbiologists and those interested in life in extreme environments, paleoclimatologists and those interested in sedimentary records of past changes, glaciologists striving to understand how water beneath glaciers affects their flow, and those engaged in developing technology to undertake direct measurement and sampling of extreme environments on Earth and in the solar system. Publisher's note.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface / Martin J. Siegert, Mahlon C. Kennicutt II, and Robert A. Bindschadler
• Subglacial aquatic environments : a focus of 21st century Antarctic science / Mahlon C. Kennicutt II and Martin J. Siegert
• The identification and physiographical setting of Antarctic subglacial lakes : an update based on recent discoveries / Andrew Wright and Martin J. Siegert
• Antarctic subglacial lake discharges / Frank Pattyn
• Vostok subglacial lake : a review of geophysical data regarding its discovery and topographic setting / Martin J. Siegert, Sergey Popov, and Michael Studinger
• Microbial communities in Antarctic subglacial aquatic environments / Mark Skidmore
• Subglacial lake sediments and sedimentary processes : potential archives of ice sheet evolution, past environmental change, and the presence of life / M.J. Bentley [and others]
• The geomorphic signature of massive subglacial floods in Victoria Land, Antarctica / David R. Marchant, Stewart S.R. Jamieson, and David E. Sugden
• Subglacial environments and the search for life beyond Earth / Charles S. Cockell [and others]
• Environmental protection and stewardship of subglacial aquatic environments / Peter T. Doran and Warwick F. Vincent
• Probe technology for the direct measurement and sampling of Ellsworth subglacial lake / Matthew C. Mowlem [and others]
• Vostok subglacial lake : details of Russian plans/activities for drilling and sampling / Valery Lukin and Sergey Bulat
• Siple coast subglacial aquatic environments : the Whillans ice stream subglacial access research drilling project / Helen Amanda Fricker [and others]
• Ellsworth subglacial lake, west Antarctica : a review of its history and recent field campaigns / N. Ross [and others].

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ISBN

• 9780875904825 ((alk. paper))
• 0875904823 ((alk. paper))

LCCN

2011007605

OCLC

706677518

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