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; Jeff Severinghaus

doi:10.1002/9781118670354.ch12

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, Jeff Severinghaus

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The Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project is a 6-year (2009-2015) integrative study of ice sheet stability and subglacial geobiology in West Antarctica, funded by the Antarctic Integrated System Science Program of National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs, Antarctic Division. The overarching scientific objective of WISSARD is to assess the role of water beneath a West Antarctic Ice Stream in interlinked glaciological, geological, microbiological, geochemical, hydrological, and oceanographic systems. The WISSARD's important science questions relate to (1) the role that subglacial and ice shelf cavity waters and wet sediments play in ice stream dynamics and mass balance, with an eye on the possible future of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and (2) the microbial metabolic and phylogenetic diversity in these subglacial environments. The study area is the downstream part of the Whillans Ice Stream on the Siple Coast, specifically Subglacial Lake Whillans and the part of the grounding zone across which it drains. In this chapter, we provide background on the motivation for the WISSARD project, detail the key scientific goals, and describe the new measurement tools and strategies under development that will provide the framework for conducting an unprecedented range of scientific observations.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Pages	199-219
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Electronic)	9781118670354
ISBN (Print)	9780875904825
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118670354.ch12
State	Published - Mar 26 2013

Keywords

Antarctica
Aquatic ecology-Antarctica
Biology
Glaciology
Groundinglines
Subglacial lakes-Antarctica-Discovery and exploration
Subglacial lakes-Antarctica-History
Subglacial lakes-Polar regions-Discovery and exploration
Subglacial lakes-Polar regions-History
Subglacialhydrology
Subglaciallakes

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General Physics and Astronomy

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Fricker, H. A., Powell, R., Priscu, J., Tulaczyk, S., Anandakrishnan, S., Christner, B., Fisher, A. T., Holland, D., Horgan, H., Jacobel, R., Mikucki, J., Mitchell, A., Scherer, R., & Severinghaus, J. (2013). Siple Coast Subglacial Aquatic Environments: The Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling Project. In Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments (pp. 199-219). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118670354.ch12

Fricker, HA, Powell, R, Priscu, J, Tulaczyk, S, Anandakrishnan, S, Christner, B, Fisher, AT, Holland, D, Horgan, H, Jacobel, R, Mikucki, J, Mitchell, A, Scherer, R & Severinghaus, J 2013, Siple Coast Subglacial Aquatic Environments: The Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling Project. in Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 199-219. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118670354.ch12

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