Development and Antarctic Testing of a Maneuverable Probe for Clean In-Situ Analysis and Sampling of Subsurface Ice and Subglacial Aquatic Ecosystems

Bernd Dachwald1, Julia Kowalski2, Ilya Digel1, Slawek M Tulaczyk3, Jill Mikucki4, Marco Feldmann1, Gero Francke5, Clemens Espe1, Sarah Schöngarth1, Stefan Hiecker1, Daniel Blandfort1, Kai Schüller6 and Engelbert Plescher1, (1)FH Aachen, Aachen, Germany, (2)RWTH Aachen University, Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in Computational Engineering Science, Aachen, Germany, (3)University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (4)University of Tennessee, Department of Microbiology, Knoxville, United States, (5)FH Aachen, Aerospace Engineering, Aachen, Germany, (6)RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany