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Start date:
October
End date:
December
Locations:
Lake Joyce and Lake Vanda
Principle Investigator:
Professor Ian Hawes
Organisation:
University of Canterbury
Part A of the programme is based at Lake Joyce and is nominally planned for support by the USAP. Its basic goal is to map the distribution of benthic microbial communities and sedimentation patterns and lake level rise in this lake and will be based on sensors lowered through small holes drilled through the ice cover.
Part B of the programme is based at Lake Vanda and is planned for support by Antarctica NZ. It shares with Part A the goal of mapping the distribution of microbial communities on the bottom of the lake using instruments lowered through the lake ice, but adds to it the need to access these communities for physiological measurements using divers.