Environment at the Grounding Zone of the Whillans Ice Stream-Ross Ice Shelf, West Antarctica

Timothy O Hodson1, Ross D Powell2, Jill Mikucki3, Reed P Scherer4, Slawek M Tulaczyk5, Jason James James Coenen6, Rebecca Puttkammer6, Carolyn Branecky7 and WISSARD Science Team, (1)Illinois State Water Survey, Champaign, IL, United States, (2)Northern Illinois Univ., Geology and Environmental Geosciences, De Kalb, IL, United States, (3)University of Tennessee, Department of Microbiology, Knoxville, United States, (4)Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, United States, (5)University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (6)Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, United States, (7)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States