Foundation president, Harvey Fineberg, and chairman emeritus and co-founder, Gordon Moore, discuss the Statement of Founders’ Intent with staff.
The more than 300 lakes discovered in the last couple of decades beneath the mighty Antarctic ice sheet have been sealed from the outside world for probably several million years. Today, a team of US Antarctic researchers proudly announced they have accessed one of the last unexplored frontiers on Earth.
At 05.00 a.m. local time, the WISSARD (Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling) field team hit the shallow waters of Lake Whillans, a small subglacial lake beneath 800-metre-thick ice at the margin of the West Antarctica’s ice sheet.
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Related links:
http://www.wissard.org
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-wissard-team-subglacial-lake-whillans.html
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Northern Illinois University, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences
$1,300,000
35 months
Remotely operated instrumentation system for subglacial environments
Sep 2009
