Selected scientific literature directly or indirectly relevant to subglacial lake exploration and a selection of media articles (author in italics) on the subject for more general reading.
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Priscu, JC, Kennicutt II, MC, Bell, RE, Bulat, SA, Ellis-Evans, JC, Lukin, VV, Petit, JR, Powell, RD, Siegert, MJ, Tabacco, IE. Subglacial Antarctic Lake Environments: International Planning for Exploration and Research. Submitted to EOS 6 November 2003
Fuchs, E, Jaffe, JS, Long, RA, Azam, F. (2002) Thin laser light sheet microscope for microbial oceanography. OPTICS EXPRESS, 10(2) 145-154.
Gavaghan, H. (2002) Life in the deep freeze. NATURE, 415, 828-830.
Tabacco, IE, Bianchi, C, Zirizzotti, A, Zuccheretti, E, Forieri, A, and Della Vedova, A. (2002) Airborne radar survey above Vostok region. East-Central Antarctica: Ice thickness and Lake Vostok geometry. JOURNAL OF GLACIOLOGY, 48(160), 62-69.
Price, PB, Nagornov, OV, Bay, R, Chirkin, D, He, Y, Miocinovic, P, Richards, A, Woschnagg, K, Koci, B, and Zagorodnov, V. (2002) Temperature profile for glacial ice at the South Pole: Implications for life in a nearby subglacial lake. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 99(12) 7844-7847.
Priscu, JP. (2002) Subglacial lakes have changed our view of Antarctica. Antarctic Science, August 2002.
Priscu, JP, Adams, EE, Pearl, HW, Fritsen, CH, Dore, JE, Lisle, JT, Wolf, CF, Mikucki, JA. (2002) Perennial Antarctic Lake Ice: A refuge for Cyanobacteria in an extreme environment. In Life in Ancient Ice (Eds. Rogers, S and J Castello). Princeton Press.
Priscu, JP, and BC Christner. (2002) Earth's Icy Biosphere. In Microbial diversity and Bioprospecting (Ed. Bull, A), ASM Press.
Caruso, D & Rhoten, D. (2001) Lead, follow, get out of the way: Sidestepping the barriers to effective practice of interdisciplinarity. The Hybrid Vigor Institute, April 2001.
Christner, BC, Mosley-Thompson, E, Thompson, LG, Reeve, JN. (2001) Isolation of bacteria and 16S rDNAs from Lake Vostok accretion ice. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, 3(9), 570-577.
Duxbury,
NS, Zotikov, IA, Nealson, KH, Romanovsky, VE & Carsey, FD. (2001) A numerical
model for an alternative origin of Lake Vostok and its exobiological implications for
Mars. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS, 106, 1453-1462
Ellis-Evans, JC. (2001). Sub-glacial Lake Vostok - a possible analogue for a Europan Ocean. JOURNAL OF THE BRITHISH INTERPLANETARY SOCIETY, 54(5/6), 159-168.
Gibbs,
WW.
(2001) Out in the cold - Ambitious plans to penetrate icebound Lake
Goldman,
EB.
(2001) A tale of two lakes. THE SCIENCES, Jan/Feb 2001, 9-13.
Irion,
R.
(2001) Lake Vostok: Stirred, not shaken. SCIENCE, 291, March 2, 1689.
Jean-Baptiste, P, Petit, JR, Lipenkov, VY, Raynaud, D & Barkov, NI. (2001) Constraints on hydrothermal processes and water exchange in Lake Vostok from helium isotopes. NATURE, 411, 460-462.
Lipenkov, VYa & Istomin, VA. (2001) On the stability of air clathrate-hydrate crystals in subglacial Lake Vostok. MATER. GLYATSIOL. ISSLED [Data of Glaciological Studies], 91, 138-149.
Lipenkov, V. (2001) Concerning the plan of Russian Antarctic Expedition to drill a further 50 meters through lake ice at Vostok Station. October 2001.
Masolov, VN, Lukin, VV, Shermetiev, AN, & Popov, SV. (2001) Geophysical investigations of the subglacial Lake Vostok in Eastern Antarctica. DOKLADY EARTH SCIENCES 379A(6), 734-738.
Montagnat, M. et al. (2001) High crystalline quality of large single crystals of subglacial ice above Lake Vostok (Antarctica) revealed by hard X-ray diffraction.
Rempel, AW, Waddington, ED, Wettlaufer, JS, and Worster, MG. (2001) Possible displacement of the climate signal in ancient ice by premelting and anomalous diffusion. NATURE, 411(31 MAY) 568-571.
Rummel, JD. (2001) Planetary exploration in the time of astrobiology: Protecting against biological contamination. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 98(5), 2128-2131.
Siegert, MJ, Ellis-Evans, JC, Tranter, M, Mayer, C, Petit, J-R, Salamatin, A, and Priscu, JC. (2001) Physical, chemical and biological processes in Lake Vostok and other Antarctic subglacial lakes. NATURE, 414, 603-609.
Williams,
MJM. (2001)
Application of a three-dimensional numerical model to Lake Vostok: An Antarctic subglacial
lake. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 28(3), 531-534.
Carpenter,
EJ, Lin, SJ & Capone, DG.
(2000) Bacterial activity in South Pole snow. APPLIED
AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY. 66(10), 4514-4517.
Brook,
EJ, Kurz, MD, Curtice, J. & Cowburn, S. (2000) Accretion of interplanetary dust in
polar ice. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 27(19) 3145-3148.
Clow, GD, B. Koci. (2000) A fast mechanical-access drill for polar glaciology, paleoclimatology, geology, tectonics and biology. ICE DRILLING TECHNOLOGY. 2000. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Ice Drilling Technology. Nagaoka, October 30-November 1, 2000. Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research, Special Issue. (Also See CTDI Flyer)
Ikeda,
T, Salamatin, AN Lipenkov, VY Mae, S & Hondoh, T. (2000)
Kuhs,
WF, Kalapproth, A & Gotthardt, F. (2000)
The formation of meso- and macroporous gas hydrates. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS. 27(18),
2929-2932.
Kwok,
R., Siegert, MJ & Carsey, FD.
(2000) Ice
motion over Lake Vostok, Antarctica: constraints on inferences regarding the accreted ice.
Masson,
V, Vimeux, F, Jouzel, J, Morgan, V, Delmotte, M, Ciais, P, Hammer, C, Johnsen, S,
Lipenkov, VY, Mosley-Thompson, E, Petit, JR, Steig, EJ, Stievenard, M & Vaikmae,
R.
(2000) Holocene climate variability in Antarctica based on 11 ice-core isotopic records.
QUATERNARY RESEARCH, 54(3) 348-358.
Mayer,
C & Siegert, MJ.
(2000) Numerical modelling of ice-sheet dynamics across the Vostok subglacial lake,
central East Antarctica. JOURNAL OF GLACIOLOGY 46(153) 197-205.
Price,
PB.
(2000) A habitat for psychrophiles in deep Antarctic ice. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 97(3) 1247-1251.
Reed,
C.
(2000) Bacteria in Lake Vostok. GEOTIMES, 45(2) 6-7.
Rutford,
R.
(2000) Lake Vostok - the international challenge. ANTARCTIC SCIENCE, 12(1) 1.
Siegert,
MJ. (2000)
Antarctic subglacial lakes. EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS, 50(1/2, 29-50.
Siegert,
MJ & Bamber, JL.
(2000) Subglacial water at the heads of Antarctic ice-stream tributaries. JOURNAL OF
GLACIOLOGY 46(155) 702-703.
Siegert,
MJ & Hodgkins, R. (2000)
A stratigraphic link across 1100 km of the Antarctic Ice Sheet between the Vostok ice-core
site and Titan Dome (near South Pole). GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 27(14) 2133-2136.
Siegert,
MJ & Kwok, R.
(2000) Ice-sheet radar layering and the development of preferred crystal orientation
fabrics between Lake Vostok and Ridge B, central East Antarctica. EARTH AND PLANETARY
SCIENCE LETTERS 179(2) 227-235.
Siegert,
MJ, Kwok, R, Mayer, C & Hubbard, B. (2000) Water exchange between the subglacial
Lake Vostok and the overlying ice sheet. NATURE. 403(6770) 643-646.
Skidmore,
ML, Foght, JM & Sharp, MJ.
(2000) Microbial life beneath a high Arctic glacier. APPLIED
AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, 66(8) 3214-3220.
Souchez,
R, Petit, JR, Tison, JL, Jouzel, J & Verbeke, V. (2000) Ice
formation in subglacial Lake Vostok, Central Antarctica. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE
LETTERS. 181(4) 529-538.
Stone,
R.
(2000)
Vostok – looking for life beneath an Antarctic glacier. Smithsonian, July 2000,
93-102.
Vincent,
WF.
(2000) Evolutionary origins of Antarctic microbiota: invasion, selection and endemism.
ANTARCTIC SCIENCE.12(3) 374-385.
Vincent,
WF.
(2000) Life in Lake Vostok. RECHERCHE. 329, March, 14-16.
Wüest,
A. & Carmack, E. (2000)
Wynn-Williams,
DD & Edwards, HGM.
(2000) Antarctic ecosystems as models for extraterrestrial surface habitats. PLANETARY AND
SPACE SCIENCE, 48(11), 1065-1075.
Zotikov,
IA & Duxbury, NS.
(2000) Genesis of Lake Vostok (Antarctica)
Abyzov,
S, Mitskevich, IN, Poglazova, MN, Barkov, NI, Lipenkov, VY, Bobin, NE, Kudryashov, BB
& Pashkevich, VM.
(1999) Antarctic ice sheet as an object for methodological problems of Exobiology.
ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH, 23(2) 371-376.
Dowdeswell,
JA & Siegert, MJ.
(1999) The dimensions and topographic setting of Antarctic Subglacial lakes and
implications for large-scale water storage beneath continental ice sheets. GEOLOGICAL
SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN 111(2) 254-263.
Gorman,
MR & Siegert, MJ.
(1999) Penetration of Antarctic subglacial lakes by VHF electromagnetic pulses:
Information on the depth and electrical conductivity of basal water bodies. JOURNAL OF
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH. 104 (B12) 29311-29320.
Ikeda,
T, Fukazawa, H, Mae, S, Pepin, L, Duval, P, Champagnon, B, Lipenkov, VY, & Hondoh, T.
(1999) Extreme fractionation of gases caused by formation of clathrate hydrates in Vostok
Antarctic ice. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 26(1) 91-94.
Jouzel,
J, Petit, JR, Souchez, R, Barkov, NI, Lipenkov, VY, Raynaud, D, Stievenard, M, Vassiliev,
NI, Verbeke, V & Vimeux, F. (1999) More than 200 meters of lake ice above
subglacial lake Vostok, Antarctica. SCIENCE, 286(5447) 2138-2141.
Karl,
DM, Bird, DF, Bjorkman, K, Houlihan, T, Shackelford, R & Tupas, L.
(1999) Microorganisms in the accreted ice of Lake Vostok, Antarctica. SCIENCE, 286(5447)
2144-2147.
Madells,
S.
(1999) Moves are afoot to probe the lake trapped beneath Antarctic ice. NATURE, 203.
Monastersky,
R.
(1999).
The strangest home on Earth. SCIENCE NEWS, 156, 216-218.
Narita,
H, Azuma, N, Hondoh, T, Fujii, M, Kawaguchi, M, Mae, SJ, Shoji, H, Kameda, T, &
Watanabe, O.
(1999) Characteristics of air bubbles and hydrates in the Dome Fuji ice core, Antarctica.
ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY, 29, 207-210.
Petit,
JR, Jouzel, J, Raynaud, D, Barkov, NI, Barnola, JM, Basile, I, Bender, M, Chappellaz, J,
Davis, M, Delaygue, G, Delmotte, M, Kotlyakov, VM, Legrand, M, Lipenkov, VY, Lorius, C,
Pepin, L, Ritz, C, Saltzman, E & Stievenard, M.
(1999) Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core,
Antarctica. NATURE 399(6735) 429-436.
Priscu,
JC, Adams, EE, Lyons, WB, Voytek, MA, Mogk, DW, Brown, RL, McKay, CP, Takacs, CD, Welch,
KA, Wolf, CF, Kirshtein, JD & Avci, R.
(1999) Geomicrobiology of subglacial ice above Lake Vostok, Antarctica. SCIENCE, 286(5447)
2141-2144.
Remy,
FD, Shaeffer, P, Legresy, B.
(1999) Ice flow physical processes derived from the ERS-1 high-resolution map of the
Antarctica and Greenland ice sheets. GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL. 139(3) 645-656.
Salamatin,
AN, Lipenkov, VY, Hondoh, T. & Ikeda, T.
(1999) Simulated features of the air-hydrate formation process in the Antarctic ice sheet
at Vostok. ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY, 29, 191-201.
Sharp,
M, Parkes, J, Cragg, B, Fairchild, IJ, Lamb, H & Tranter, M.
(1999) Widespread bacterial populations at glacier beds and their relationship to rock
weathering and carbon cycling. GEOLOGY, 27(2) 107-110.
Siegert,
MJ.
(1999) Antarctica's Lake Vostok. AMERICAN SCIENTIST. 87(6) 510-517.
Stone,
R.
(1999) Lake Vostok probe faces delays. SCIENCE. 286(5437) 36-37.
Takeya,
S, Nagaya, H, Matsuyama, T, Hondoh, T & Lipenkov, VY.
(1999) Lattice constants and thermal expansion coefficient of air clathrate hydrate in
deep ice cores from Vostok, Antarctica. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B 104(4) 668-670.
Vaughan,
DG, Bamber, JL, Giovinetto, M, Russell, J & Cooper, APR.
(1999) Reassessment of net surface mass balance in Antarctica. JOURNAL OF CLIMATE. 12(4)
933-946.
Wagnon,
P, Delmas, RJ & Legrand, M.
(1999) Loss of volatile acid species from upper firn layers at Vostok, Antarctica. JOURNAL
OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES. 104, 3423-3431.
Wolff,
E, Basile, I, Petit, JR & Schwander, J.
(1999) Comparison of Holocene electrical records from Dome C and Vostok, Antarctica.
ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY, VOL 29, 89-93
Zagorodnov,
V, Thompson, LG, Kelley, JJ, Koci, B & Mikhalenko, V.
(1999) Antifreeze thermal ice core drilling: an effective approach to the acquisition of
ice cores. COLD REGIONS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 28(3) 189-202.
Salamatin,
AN, Lipenkov, VY, Barkov, NI, Jouzel, J, Petit, JR & Raynaud, D.
(1998) Ice core age dating and paleothermometer calibration based on isotope and
temperature profiles from deep boreholes at Vostok Station (East Antarctica). JOURNAL OF
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES. 103, 8963-8977.
Siegert,
MJ, Hodgkins, R & Dowdeswell, JA.
(1998) Internal radio-echo layering at Vostok station, Antarctica, as an independent
stratigraphic control on the ice-core record. ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY, 27, 360-364.
Siegert,
MJ, Hodgkins, R & Dowdeswell, JA.
(1998) A chronology for the Dome C deep ice-core site through radio-echo layer correlation
with the Vostok ice core, Antarctica. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 25(7), 1019-1022.
Siegert,
MJ & Ridley, JK.
(1998) Determining basal ice-sheet conditions in the Dome C region of East Antarctica
using satellite radar altimetry and airborne radio-echo sounding. JOURNAL OF GLACIOLOGY,
44(146), 1-8.
Siegert,
MJ & Ridley, JK.
(1998) An analysis of the ice-sheet surface and subsurface topography above the Vostok
Station subglacial lake, central East Antarctica. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID
EARTH, 103, 10195-10207.
Stone,
R.
(1998) Russian outpost readies for otherworldly quest. SCIENCE, 279, 658-661.
Smith,
N.
(1998) Drilling for alien life. FOCUS, June 1998, 120-121.
Basile,
I, Grousset, FE, Revel, M, Petit, JR, Biscaye, PE & Barkov, NI.
(1997) Patagonian origin of glacial dust deposited in East Antarctica (Vostok and Dome C)
during glacial stages 2, 4 and 6. EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS, 146(3/4) 573-589.
Petit,
JR, Basile, I, Leruyuet, A, Raynaud, D, Lorius, C, Jouzel, J, Stievenard, M, Lipenkov, VY,
Barkov, NI, Kudryashov, BB, Davis, M, Saltzman, E & Kotlyakov, V.
(1997) Four climate cycles in Vostok ice core. NATURE, 387(6631) 359-360.
Jouzel,
J, Waelbroeck, C, Malaize, B, Bender, M, Petit, JR, Stievenard, M, Barkov, NI, Barnola,
JM, King, T, Kotlyakov, VM, Lipenkov, V, Lorius, C, Raynaud, D, Ritz, C & Sowers, T.
(1996) Climatic interpretation of the recently extended Vostok ice records. CLIMATE
DYNAMICS, 12(8) 513-521.
Kapitsa,
AP, Ridley, JK, Robin, GQ, Siegert, MJ & Zotikov, IA.
(1996) A large deep freshwater lake beneath the ice of central East Antarctica. NATURE,
381, 684-686.
Williams,
C
(1996) Lake Vostok - Freshwater time capsule. GEOTIMES, 41(9) 6-7.
Jean-Baptiste,
P, Raynaud, D, Mantisi, F., Sowers, T, & Barkov, N. (1993) Measurement of helium
isotopes in Antarctic ice: preliminary results from Vostok. CR. ACADEMY OF SCIENCES,
PARIS. 316, 491-497.