Clean hot water drilling for exploration of the Antarctic deep subglacial environment

Keith Makinson1, David Pearce2, Dominic Hodgson3, Michael Bentley4, Andrew Smith3, Martyn Tranter5, Michael C Rose3, Neil Ross6, Matthew C Mowlem7, John Parnell8 and Martin John Siegert9, (1)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Polar Oceans, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)Northumbria University, Microbiology, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, (3)NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (4)University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom, (5)University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, (6)University of Northumbria, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, (7)National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, (8)University of Aberdeen, School of Geosciences, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (9)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom