[SALE Mailing List] SALE News: 2008-02-18 - 2008-02-25

Here is a digest of all news items posted last week to scar-sale.tamu.edu

Posted Items

Reference

UH scientists successfully sample subglacial lake
Earlier this month, scientists from University of Hawaii Mânoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), in collaboration with Icelandic research institutes, successfully drilled into and sampled a lake deep beneath a glacier in Iceland.
Read more
Lakes under glaciers a key to sea level rise
Earth scientist Chris Shuman studies liquid lakes beneath ice sheets in Antarctica. They stay liquid due to geothermal heat from Earth’s interior. Shuman said these hidden Antarctic lakes affect the way glaciers move toward the sea.............
Read more
Mini-Lake Vostok yields clues to ancient life
A miniature model of the world's largest subglacial lake, Antarctica's Lake Vostok, has given clues to the way its waters circulate, and hence on where scientists should drill to find life...............
Read more