Lake Whillans; retrieving uncontaminated samples from a sub-glacial lake in Antarctica.

The Antarctic Report Podcast by Nicholas O'Flaherty

Jul 20, 201700:33:31Education

We speak to Helen Amanda Fricker about Lake Whillans beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, and how the WISSARD project obtained the first ever uncontaminated sample from an Antarctic sub-glacial lake, after drilling down...

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