Dear Colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to the session "Subglacial Aquatic Environments" at the SCAR Open Science Conference in Kuala Lumpur, 20-30 August 2016.
Abstract submission is NOW OPEN, and will close 14 February, 2016.
Subglacial Aquatic Environments (S10)
Conveners: Martin Siegert, UK; Irina Alekhina, Russia; Trista Vick-Majors, USA
The basal regions of the Antarctic Ice Sheet are host to some of the most inaccessible and diverse aquatic environments in the world, and include subglacial lakes, rivers, swamps and deep sedimentary basins. The exploration of these frigid, subterranean environments features highly on the international scientific agenda, driven by a need to improve understanding of subglacial microbial ecosystems and future ice sheet contribution to sea level changes. Subglacial systems may also hold new records of past climate from sediments deposited in lakes and sedimentary basins. The past four years has seen several missions aimed at directly measuring and sampling subglacial lakes and basal material. Much has been learnt in terms of both scientific discovery and on the technical challenges of successfully accesses the bed beneath deep ice. This session aims to highlight recent developments in the understanding of subglacial aquatic environments in Antarctica, inviting contributions across a broad range of disciplines. This might include, for example, results of recent subglacial exploration, experimental and numerical modeling simulations of subglacial processes and their impacts, remote sensing and the development of enabling technologies for subglacial access and data collection. We also welcome presentations from those working on subglacial aquatic environments outside Antarctica, but with results relevant to Antarctic Science. The session aims to bring together diverse communities drawn from glaciology, microbiology/ biogeochemistry and engineering.
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Trista Vick-Majors
Ph.D Candidate and Graduate Research Assistant
Priscu Research Group
Montana State University
Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences
Bozeman, MT
Montana State University
Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences
Bozeman, MT
