Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Siegert, Martin J.; Bindschadler, Robert A.; Kennicutt, Mahlon C.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 192. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118671481
• Artikelnr.: 38402351

Autorenporträt

Martin J. Siegert FRSE is a British glaciologist, a professor at Imperial College London, and co-director of the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment. Mahlon C. Kennicutt II is the editor of Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments, published by Wiley.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Martin J. Siegert
Mahlon C. Kennicutt II
and Robert A. Bindschadler  vii Section I: History and Background Subglacial Aquatic Environments: A Focus of 21st Century Antarctic Science Mahlon C. Kennicutt II and Martin J. Siegert  1 The Identification and Physiographical Setting of Antarctic Subglacial Lakes: An Update Based on Recent Discoveries Andrew Wright and Martin J. Siegert  9 Antarctic Subglacial Lake Discharges Frank Pattyn  27 Section II: Vostok Subglacial Lake and Recognition of Subglacial Aquatic Environments Vostok Subglacial Lake: A Review of Geophysical Data Regarding Its Discovery and Topographic Setting Martin J. Siegert
Sergey Popov
and Michael Studinger  45 Microbial Communities in Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments Mark Skidmore  61 Subglacial Lake Sediments and Sedimentary Processes: Potential Archives of Ice Sheet Evolution
Past Environmental Change
and the Presence of Life M. J. Bentley
P. Christoffersen
D. A. Hodgson
A. M. Smith
S. Tulaczyk
and A. M. Le Brocq  83 The Geomorphic Signature of Massive Subglacial Floods in Victoria Land
Antarctica David R. Marchant
Stewart S. R. Jamieson
and David E. Sugden  111 Subglacial Environments and the Search for Life Beyond the Earth Charles S. Cockell
Elizabeth Bagshaw
Matt Balme
Peter Doran
Christopher P. McKay
Katarina Miljkovic
David Pearce
Martin J. Siegert
Martyn Tranter
Mary Voytek
and Jemma Wadham  129 Section III: Future Exploration Missions Environmental Protection and Stewardship of Subglacial Aquatic Environments Peter T. Doran and Warwick F. Vincent  149 Probe Technology for the Direct Measurement and Sampling of Ellsworth Subglacial Lake Matthew C. Mowlem
Maria-Nefeli Tsaloglou
Edward M. Waugh
Cedric F. A. Floquet
Kevin Saw
Lee Fowler
Robin Brown
David Pearce
James B. Wyatt
Alexander D. Beaton
Mario P. Brito
Dominic A. Hodgson
Gwyn Griffiths
M. Bentley
D. Blake
L. Capper
R. Clarke
C. Cockell
H. Corr
W. Harris
C. Hill
R. Hindmarsh
E. King
H. Lamb
B. Maher
K. Makinson
J. Parnell
J. Priscu
A. Rivera
N. Ross
M. J. Siegert
A. Smith
A. Tait
M. Tranter
J. Wadham
B. Whalley
and J. Woodward  159 Vostok Subglacial Lake: Details of Russian Plans/Activities for Drilling and Sampling Valery Lukin and Sergey Bulat  187 Siple Coast Subglacial Aquatic Environments: The Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling Project Helen Amanda Fricker
Ross Powell
John Priscu
Slawek Tulaczyk
Sridhar Anandakrishnan
Brent Christner
Andrew T. Fisher
David Holland
Huw Horgan
Robert Jacobel
Jill Mikucki
Andrew Mitchell
Reed Scherer
and Jeff Severinghaus  199 Ellsworth Subglacial Lake
West Antarctica: A Review of Its History and Recent Field Campaigns N. Ross
M. J. Siegert
A. Rivera
M. J. Bentley
D. Blake
L. Capper
R. Clarke
C. S. Cockell
H. F. J. Corr
W. Harris
C. Hill
R. C. A. Hindmarsh
D. A. Hodgson
E. C. King
H. Lamb
B. Maher
K. Makinson
M. Mowlem
J. Parnell
D. A. Pearce
J. Priscu
A. M. Smith
A. Tait
M. Tranter
J. L. Wadham
W. B. Whalley
and J. Woodward  221 AGU Category Index 235 Index  237