The Biogeochemistry beneath the Whillans Ice Stream, West Antarctica: Evidence for a Chemoautotrophically Driven Ecosystem

Alicia Purcell1, Jill Mikucki2, Amanda Achberger3, Brent Craig Christner3, Alexander B Michaud4, Andrew Mitchell5, John C Priscu6, Mark L Skidmore7, Trista Vick-Majors8 and The WISSARD Science Team, (1)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, (2)University of Tennessee, Microbiology, Knoxville, TN, United States, (3)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (4)Montana State University, Bozeman, United States, (5)Aberystwyth University, Geography & Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, (6)Montana State University, Department of Land Resources and Environmental Science, Bozeman, MT, United States, (7)Montana State University, Department of Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, (8)Michigan Technological University, Biological Sciences, Houghton, MI, United States