Sentences with phrase «subglacial access research»

Photo provided by Brent Christner, LSU associate professor of biological sciences and lead author of the report — Amanda Achberger, a doctoral candidate and researcher on the National Science Foundation - funded Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project, put up her tent against the backdrop of the Antarctica.

Photos by Brent Christner, LSU associate professor of biological sciences and lead author of the report — Amanda Achberger, a doctoral candidate and researcher on the National Science Foundation - funded Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project works on equipment involved with drilling down and sampling a lake located under almost a half - mile of ice.

This current National Science Foundation - funded Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project included 12 co-principal investigators from as many institutions along with a host of graduate and doctoral candidate students.

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.

Priscu is looking forward to a similar U.S. effort called the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling project next year, which will use a similar approach of melting a hole with hot water in order to reach the river - fed Whillans Ice Stream in West Antarctica.

The study, part of the National Science Foundation - funded Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling project (WISSARD), was supported by UC San Diego's John Dove Isaacs Chair in Natural Philosophy awarded to Fricker.

The US$ 20 - million Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project, which Powell oversees, plans to drill into the lake during the 2012 - 13 field season.