Vostok Subglacial Lake: Details of Russian Plans/Activities for Drilling and Sampling. Lukin, V. & Bulat, S. Wiley Blackwell, 2013. cited By 7
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The Russian Federation has developed a national project involving the drilling and sampling of Vostok Subglacial Lake, East Antarctica. The objective is to explore this extreme icy environment, using a variety of techniques to identify the forms and levels of life that exist there. The project is funded by the Russian Federal Service ROSHYDROMET. In the 2009/2010 season, drilling operations were restarted at a depth of 3559 m via new borehole 5G-2, successfully reaching a new depth of approximately 3650 m. New accretion ice, including the inclusion-rich "thermophile-containing" horizon (around 3608 m) was again recovered and will be studied to assess the previous scenario and findings. In 2010/2011, the drill will carefully continue to deepen the borehole leaving a 10- to 15-m ice cork and will in season 2011/2012 enter the lake, allowing water to rise up dozens of meters within borehole 5G-2 and subsequently freeze. During the same or following season (2012/2013), borehole 5G-2 will be redrilled to acquire rapidly frozen lake water for complex investigations. In the following season, 2013/2014, a special set of strictly decontaminated biophysical instruments, developed at the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, will be lowered into the water body, with a battery of ocean observatory sensors, cameras, fluorimeters-spectrometers, and special water samplers on board several submersible titan modules. Such activities are in line with environmental stewardship in the exploration of unique aquatic environments under the Antarctic ice sheet. © 2011 by the American Geophysical Union. All rights reserved.
@BOOK{Lukin2013187,
author={Lukin, V. and Bulat, S.},
title={Vostok Subglacial Lake: Details of Russian Plans/Activities for Drilling and Sampling},
journal={Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments},
year={2013},
pages={187-197},
doi={10.1002/9781118670354.ch11},
note={cited By 7},
url={https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84951267754&doi=10.1002%2f9781118670354.ch11&partnerID=40&md5=2f237b74107d9e85b9aa3621b46bd3ce},
affiliation={Russian Antarctic Expedition, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, 38 Bering str., St. Petersburg, 199397, Russian Federation; Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leningrad region, Gatchina, 188300, Russian Federation},
abstract={The Russian Federation has developed a national project involving the drilling and sampling of Vostok Subglacial Lake, East Antarctica. The objective is to explore this extreme icy environment, using a variety of techniques to identify the forms and levels of life that exist there. The project is funded by the Russian Federal Service ROSHYDROMET. In the 2009/2010 season, drilling operations were restarted at a depth of 3559 m via new borehole 5G-2, successfully reaching a new depth of approximately 3650 m. New accretion ice, including the inclusion-rich "thermophile-containing" horizon (around 3608 m) was again recovered and will be studied to assess the previous scenario and findings. In 2010/2011, the drill will carefully continue to deepen the borehole leaving a 10- to 15-m ice cork and will in season 2011/2012 enter the lake, allowing water to rise up dozens of meters within borehole 5G-2 and subsequently freeze. During the same or following season (2012/2013), borehole 5G-2 will be redrilled to acquire rapidly frozen lake water for complex investigations. In the following season, 2013/2014, a special set of strictly decontaminated biophysical instruments, developed at the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, will be lowered into the water body, with a battery of ocean observatory sensors, cameras, fluorimeters-spectrometers, and special water samplers on board several submersible titan modules. Such activities are in line with environmental stewardship in the exploration of unique aquatic environments under the Antarctic ice sheet. © 2011 by the American Geophysical Union. All rights reserved.},
author_keywords={Antarctica;  Aquatic ecology-Antarctica;  Biogeochemistry;  Deepicedrilling;  Extremophiles;  Life;  Subglacial lakes-Antarctica-Discovery and exploration;  Subglacial lakes-Antarctica-History;  Subglacial lakes-Polar regions-Discovery and exploration;  Subglacial lakes-Polar regions-History;  VostokSubglacialLake},
correspondence_address1={Lukin, V.; Russian Antarctic Expedition, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, 38 Bering str., Russian Federation; email: lukin@aari.nw.ru},
publisher={Wiley Blackwell},
isbn={9781118670354; 9780875904825},
language={English},
abbrev_source_title={Antarct. Subglacial Aquat. Environ.},
document_type={Book Chapter},
source={Scopus},
}

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