WISSARD Meeting Abstracts
Here are references to talks and posters related to the WISSARD project which have been presented at professional meetings and scientific conferences. Links to the actual abstracts are provided when possible.
2017
Michaud A.B., Mitchell, A.C., Vick-Majors, T.J., Achberger, A.M., Barbante C., Christner, B.C., Dore, J.E., Mikucki J.A., Priscu J.C., Purcell, A.M., Skidmore, M.L., Turetta, C. (2017) Biogeochemistry and energetics of Subglacial Lake Whillans. Goldschmidt 2017. International Conference for Geochemistry, Paris, France, August 13-18, 2017. https://goldschmidt.info/2017/abstracts/abstractView?id=2017006131
Olivas, B.G., Telling, J., Michaud A.B., Skidmore, M.L., Priscu J.C., Tranter, M. (2017) Crushing of Subglacial Lake Sediment as a Source of Bio-utilisable Gases. Abstract C32A-02, Fall Meeting, AGU, New Orleans, LA, 11-15 December, 2017. http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2017/FM/C32A-02.html
Begeman, C., Tulaczyk, S., Marsh, O., Mikucki, J., Stanton, T., Hodson, T., Siegfried, M., Powell, R., Christianson, K., King, M. (2017) Ocean stratification reduces melt rates at the grounding zone of the Ross Ice Shelf Abstract C51B-0969, Fall Meeting, AGU, New Orleans, LA, 11-15 December, 2017. http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2017/FM/C51B-0969.html
2016
Vick-Majors, T.J., Michaud A.B., Skidmore, M.L., Priscu J.C. (2016) Subglacial carbon and nutrient fluxes fertilize the Southern Ocean under the Ross Ice Shelf. ASLO Summer Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, 5-10 June, 2016. https://www.sgmeet.com/aslo/santafe2016/viewabstract.asp?AbstractID=28091
Branecky, C., Stearns, L., Fisher, A. (2016) Elevated and Variable Geothermal Heat Flux below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Abstract C33C-0829, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 11-15 December, 2016. http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2016/FM/C33C-0829.html
Hodson, T., Powell, R., Branecky, C., Tulaczyk, S., Mikucki, J. (2016) The ocean exchange with the Ross Ice Shelf grounding zone, Antarctica Abstract C51A-0644, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 11-15 December, 2016. http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2016/FM/C51A-0644.html
2015
Christner, B.C., Priscu J.C., Achberger, A.M., Barbante C., Michaud A.B., Mikucki J.A., Mitchell, A.C. Purcell, A.M., Skidmore, M.L., Vick-Majors, T.J., and the WISSARD Science Team (2015) Subglacial Lake Whillans: A microbial ecosystem beneath deep Antarctic ice. Astrobiology Science Conference, Chicago, IL, June 15-19, 2015 https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/abscicon2015/pdf/7133.pdf
Christner, B.C., A.M. Achberger, E.L.J.E. Broemsen, K.A. Cameron, M. Dieser , B. Hagedorn, K. Junge, G.M. King, A.B. Michaud, J.A. Mikucki, A.C. Mitchell, M.L. Skidmore, R. Sletten, J.C. Priscu, and T.J. Vick-Majors. Microbial ecosystems beneath polar ice sheets. Invited oral presentation at the 2015 General Meeting for the American Society of Microbiology. New Orleans, Louisiana, 30 May – 2 June 2015.
Achberger, A., Skidmore, M., Michaud, A., Vick-Majors, T., Priscu, J.C., Christner, B. (2015) Microbial Community Ecology of Subglacial Lake Whillans, Antarctica. American Society for Microbiology 115th General Meeting, New Orleans, LA, May 30- June 02, 2015.
Vick-Majors, T.J., Achberger, A., Michaud, A. Skidmore, M., Boyd, E., Dore, J., Gardner, W., Lu, K., Christner, B., Priscu, J.C. (2015) Sources and Sinks of Carbon and Nitrogen in Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments. American Society for Microbiology 115th General Meeting, New Orleans, LA, May 30- June 02, 2015.
Tulaczyk, S., Powell, R.D., Priscu, J.C., Christner, B.C., Fisher, A.T., Fricker, H.A., Mikucki, J.A., Rack, F., Scherer, R.P., Schwartz, S.Y., Skidmore, M., Branecky, C. Burnett, J., Neuhaus, S.U., Sampson, D. Siegfried, M., Zook, R. and the WISSARD Science Team (2015) WISSARD at the Grounding Zone of Whillans Ice Stream: Scientific Operations & Initial Observations 22nd WAIS Workshop, Loveland, CO, USA, Sept 16-19, 2015.
Michaud A.B., Dore, J.E., Vick-Majors, T.J., Skidmore, M.L., Achberger, A.M., Christner, B.C., Priscu, J.C. and the WISSARD Science Team. (2015) Microbial methane cycling in Subglacial Lake Whillans, West Antarctica. Microenergy 2015. 3rd International Workshop on Microbial Life under Extreme Energy Limitation, Sandbjerg, Denmark, Sept 21-25, 2015.
Vick-Majors, T.J., Michaud A.B., Achberger, A.M., Christner, B.C., Skidmore, M.L., Mikucki J., Mitchell, A., Priscu J.C. and the WISSARD Science Team. Limitations on heterotrophic activity in Subglacial Lake Whillans, West Antarctica. Microenergy 2015. 3rd International Workshop on Microbial Life under Extreme Energy Limitation, Sandbjerg, Denmark, Sept 21-25, 2015.
Purcell, A., Mikucki, J.A., Achberger, A.M., Christner, B.C., Michaud A.B., Mitchell, A.C., Priscu, J.C., Skidmore, M.L., Vick-Majors, T.J. and the WISSARD Science Team. The Biogeochemistry beneath the Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica: Evidence for a Chemoautotrophically Driven Ecosystem. Abstract C11C-0772, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 December, 2015. http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2015/FM/C11C-0772.html
Powell, R. and Jacobel, R., (2015) Grounding Zones, Subglacial Lakes, and Dynamics of an Antarctic Ice Stream: The WISSARD Glaciological Experiment. Abstract C13D-08, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 December, 2015. http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2015/FM/C13D-08.html
Puttkammer, R and Coenen, J. (2015) Till Provenance for Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica: from Upstream B, Subglacial Lake Whillans, and the Grounding Zone. Abstract C11C-0773, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 December, 2015. http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2015/FM/C11C-0773.html
Coenen, J. and Scherer, R. (2015) Whillans Ice Stream from UpB to WGZ: Siliceous Microfossils, Palynomorphs, and Biomarker Evidence of Sub-glacial Processes and Ice Stream History Abstract C11C-0771, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 December, 2015. http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2015/FM/C11C-0771.html
Powell, R. and Scherer, R. (2015) Geological and paleontological results from the WISSARD (Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling) Project Abstract C11C-0769, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 December, 2015. http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2015/FM/C11C-0769.html
Hodson, T. and Powell, R. (2015) Environment at the Grounding Zone of the Whillans Ice Stream-Ross Ice Shelf, West Antarctica Abstract C11C-0774, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 December, 2015. http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2015/FM/C11C-0774.html
Siegfried M. and Powell, R. (2015) Rapid subglacial water system evolution triggered by subglacial floods in West Antarctica Abstract C11C-0765, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 14-18 December, 2015. http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2015/FM/C11C-0765.html
2014
Christner, B.C., A.M. Achberger, E.L.J.E. Broemsen, K.A. Cameron, M. Dieser , B. Hagedorn, K. Junge, G.M. King, A.B. Michaud, J.A. Mikucki, A.C. Mitchell, M.L. Skidmore, R. Sletten, J.C. Priscu, and T.J. Vick-Majors. Microbial ecosystems in subglacial aquatic environments. Invited oral presentation at the 10th International Congress on Extremophiles, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 7-11 September 2014.
Vick-Majors, T., Priscu J., Achberger, A., Christner, B., Michaud A., Mikucki J., Mitchell, A. Barbante C., Skidmore, M., and the WISSARD Science Team (2014) Microbial nutrient cycling and physiology in Subglacial Lake Whillans, Antarctica, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research XXXIII Open Science Conference, Auckland, NZ, 25-28 August, 2014.
Skidmore , M., Michaud, A., Achberger, A., Barbante C., Christner, B., Mikucki, J., Mitchell, A., Priscu J.C., Purcell, A., van Gelder, W., Vick-Majors, T. and the WISSARD Science Team (2014) Subglacial Lake Whillans, West Antarctica; Solute Dynamics and Fluxes to the Ross Sea, Abstract C51C-08, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 15-19 December. http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2014/FM/C51C-08.html
Tulaczyk, S., Mikucki, J., Siegfried, M., Priscu, J., Barcheck, C., Beem, L., Behar, A., Burnett, J., Christner, B., Fisher, A., Fricker, H., Mankoff, K., Powell, R., Rack, F., Sampson, D., Scherer, R., Schwartz, S. (2014) WISSARD at Subglacial Lake Whillans, West Antarctica: scientific operations and initial observations Abstract C52A-07, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 15-19 December. http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2014/FM/C52A-07.html
Fisher, A., Mankoff, K., Tulaczyk, S., Foley, N., Hossainzadeh, S. (2014) The first geothermal heat flux measurement below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Abstract C53A-0290, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 15-19 December. http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2014/FM/C53A-0290.html
2013
Achberger, A., Barbante C., Mikucki J., Michaud A., Mitchell, A. Priscu J., Skidmore, M., Vick-Majors, T., Christner, B., (2013) Molecular Analysis of Microbial Communities Inhabiting Subglacial Lake Whillans, Antarctica, 5th International Conference on Polar & Alpine Microbiology, Big Sky, MT, Sept 8-12, 2013.
Christner, B., Achberger, A., Anandakrishnan, S., Barbante C., Behar, A., Fisher, A., Fricker, H., Jacobel, R., Michaud, A., Mikucki, J., Mitchell, A., Powell, R., Priscu, J., Severinghaus, J., Scherer, R., Skidmore, M., Tulaczyk, S., Vick-Majors, T. (2013) Scientific Exploration of Subglacial Lake Whillans, West Antarctica, 5th International Conference on Polar & Alpine Microbiology, Big Sky, MT, Sept 8-12, 2013.
Michaud A., Vick-Majors, T., Priscu J., Skidmore, M., Mitchell, A. (2013) Microbial activity in the sediments of Subglacial Lake Whillans, 5th International Conference on Polar & Alpine Microbiology, Big Sky, MT, Sept 8-12, 2013.
Skidmore, M., Mitchell, A., Barbante C., Michaud A., Vick-Majors, T., Priscu J., (2013) Geochemistry of subglacial Lake Whillans, West Antarctica- Implications for microbial activity, 5th International Conference on Polar & Alpine Microbiology, Big Sky, MT, Sept 8-12, 2013.
Vick-Majors, T., Michaud A., Priscu J., Skidmore, M., Christner, B., Achberger, A., Adkins, P., Mikucki, J., Mitchell, A., Barbante C., Powell, R., Scherer, R., Hodson, T. (2013) Biogeochemical characteristics of sub-Ross Ice Shelf waters near McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, 5th International Conference on Polar & Alpine Microbiology, Big Sky, MT, Sept 8-12, 2013.
Vick-Majors, T., Michaud A., Priscu J., (2013) Physiological Ecology of Bacteria in the water column of Subglacial Lake Whillans, Antarctica, 5th International Conference on Polar & Alpine Microbiology, Big Sky, MT, Sept 8-12, 2013.
Priscu, J., Christner, B., Skidmore, M., Mikucki J., Vick-Majors, T., Achberger, A., Michaud A., Mitchell, A. Barbante C., (2013) Geomicrobiology of Subglacial Lake Whillans, Antarctica, Abstract B22B-08, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 December. http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2013/FM/B22B-08.html
Hodson, T. and Powell, R. (2013) Physical and chemical characteristics of the Subglacial Lake Whillans sediment cores, Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica Abstract C33B-0728, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 December. http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2013/FM/C33B-0728.html
Siegfried, M., Fricker, H., Roberts, M., Scambos, T. (2013) Subglacial flood event observed using in situ GPS data, CryoSat-2 altimetry, and MODIS image differencing on the Whillans Ice Plain, West Antarctica Abstract C33B-0717, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 December. http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2013/FM/C33B-0717.html
Beem, L., Tulaczyk, S., Fricker, H., King, M. (2013) Modulation of Whillans Ice Stream Stick Slip Cycle: Loading Rate, Subglacial Hydrology and Slowdown Abstract C33B-0726, Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 December. http://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2013/FM/C33B-0726.html
2012
Carter, S., M. Siegfried and H Fricker, “Modeling hydrologic connections between Subglacial lakes in Kamb and Whillans ice streams”, bibl. Abstract S-17 (3), (2012). (link is external)Conference abstracts published of collection:, “SCAR Fifth Open Conference Proceedings”
Christianson, K., R. Jacobel, H. Horgan, S. Anandakrishnan, R. Alley, A. Muto and B. Petersen, “Grounding Zone Heterogeneity of Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica” , bibl. Abstract S-17(8), (2012). (link is external)Conference abstracts Published of Collection: , “SCAR Fifth Open Conference Proceedings”
Horgan, H., S.Anandakrishnan, K.Christianson, R. Jacobel and R. Alley, “Grounding Zone Structure and Bathymetry from Active Source Seismic Surveying, Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica” , bibl. Abstract S-17(9), (2012). (link is external)Conference abstracts Published of Collection: , “SCAR Fifth Open Conference Proceedings”
Jacobel, R., K. Christianson, H. Horgan, S. Anandakrishnan, R. Alley, A. Muto, B. Petersen, R. Gobel, B. Keisling and L. Snyder, “Geophysical characteristics of Subglacial Lake Whillans and the ice stream grounding zone, West Antarctica” , bibl. Abstract S-17(2), (2012). (link is external)Conference abstracts Published of Collection: , “Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Fifth Open Conference Proceedings”
Keisling, B., K. Christianson, H. Horgan, R. Jacobel, S. Anandakrishnan, B. Petersen, “Local Variability in Basal Reflectivity Across the Grounding Zone of Whillans Ice Stream from Ice Penetrating Radar”, bibl. Abstract S-17 (10).(link is external)Conference abstracts published of collection:, “SCAR Fifth Open Conference Proceedings”
Siegfried, M., H. Fricker, L. Beem, K. Christianson, H. Horgan, S. Tulaczyk, “A comparison of grounding zone flexure in two geometries over a 12-hour tidal cycle”, bibl. Abstract S-17 (12). (link is external)Conference abstracts published of collection:, “SCAR Fifth Open Conference Proceedings”
Tulaczyk, S., R Powell, J. Priscu, H. Fricker, A. Behar, S. Anandakrishnan, B. Christner, A. Fisher, D. Holland, H. Horgan, R. Jacobel, J. Mikucki, R. Scherer, S. Schwartz, J. Severinghaus, M. Skidmore, “Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) Project: Progress and Plans”, bibl. Abstract S-17 (7), (2012). (link is external)Conference abstracts published of collection:, “SCAR Fifth Open Conference Proceedings”
2011
Christianson, K., R.W. Jacobel, H. Horgan , S. Anandakrishnan and R.B. Alley, “The Dynamic Filling/Draining Cycle of Subglacial Lake Whillans” , bibl. Abstract PS 9.5, (2011). Conference abstracts Published of Collection: , “Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research Eleventh International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Science”
Jacobel, R., K. Christianson, R. Gobel, B. Keisling and L. Snyder, “Geophysical characteristics of an active Antarctic subglacial lake revealed by ground penetrating radar” , bibl. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2011AM/finalprogram/abstract_192142.htm(link is external), (2011). Conference abstracts Published of Collection: , “Abstract 183-9 presented at 2011 Annual Meeting GSA, Minneapolis MN, October 9-12, 2011.”
Jacobel, R., K.Christianson, H. Horgan, S. Anandakrishnan , R. Gobel, B. Keisling and L. Snyder, “Geophysical characteristics of an active subglacial lake revealed by radar and seismic experiments, Whillans Ice Stream” , bibl. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011AGUFM.C14B..02J(link is external), (2011). Conference abstracts Published of Collection: , “Abstract C14B-02 presented at 2011 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, CA, 7-11 Dec.”
Jacobel, R.W., K. Christianson, H. Horgan and S. Anandakrishnan, “Radar Results From the WISSARD Subglacial Lake Whillans Surface Geophysics Site Characterization Survey” , bibl. Abstract PS 9-4, (2011). Conference abstracts Published of Collection: , “Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research Eleventh International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Science”
2009
Powell, R., S. Anandakrishnan, D. M. Holland, H. J. Horgan, R.W. Jacobel, R. P. Scherer, S.M. Tulaczyk, S.W. Vogel, “Investigating Grounding Zones by RAGEing WISSARDs” , bibl. EOS Transactions American Geophysical Union 90 (52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract U53C-05., (2009)