Tag Archive for 'Lake Whillans'

An artist’s conception of the Antarctic subglacial environment. Image credit: Zina Deretsky / NSF.

What Lies Beneath Thick Antarctic Ice Sheet?

May 4, 2016 by News Staff

Three teams of scientists have taken a detailed look into the biogeochemistry, geophysics and geology of subglacial Lake Whillans, which lies 2,600 feet...

This false-color scanning electron microscopy image shows a microbial cell (arrow) with coccoid morphology found in a sample from Lake Whillans. Scale bar - 2 μm. Image credit: Brent C. Christner et al.

Diverse Microbial Ecosystem Discovered in Antarctic Subglacial Lake Whillans

Aug 21, 2014 by Natali Anderson

A team of researchers from the United States, Italy and the United Kingdom, has discovered a complex assemblage of bacteria and archaea in the waters and...