General Information
Vostok is in proper stratigraphic order to about 3350 m depth. From 3350-3536 m depth, the ice is clean glacial/refrozen lake ice and is not in stratigraphic order. Discontinuous sections are available in the NSF-ICF archive. Several sections from other cores drilled at Vostok are also in the NSF-ICF archive.
Publications
- Castello JD and Rogers SO (2016) A Synopsis of the Past, an Evaluation of the Current, and a Glance toward the Future. Life in Ancient Ice, p.289
- Castello JD, Rogers SO, Starmer WT, Catranis CM, Ma L, Bachand GD, Zhao Y and Smith JE (1999) Detection of tomato mosaic tobamovirus RNA in ancient glacial ice, Polar Biology, 22(3), 207-212, doi:10.1007/s003000050411
- Christner BC, Royston-Bishop G, Foreman CM, Arnold BR, Tranter M, Welch KA, Lyons WB, Tsapin AI, Studinger M and Priscu JC (2006) Limnological conditions in subglacial Lake Vostok, Antarctica, Limnology and Oceanography, 51(6), 2485-2501, doi:10.4319/lo.2006.51.6.2485Caillon N, Severinghaus JP, Barnola JM, Chappellaz J, Jouzel J and Parrenin F (2001) Estimation of temperature change and of gas age-ice age difference, 108 kyr B.P., at Vostok, Antarctica, Journal of Geophysical Research, 106(D23), 31893-31901, doi:10.1029/2001JD900145
- Christner BC, Mosley‐Thompson E, Thompson LG and Reeve JN (2001) Isolation of bacteria and 16S rDNAs from Lake Vostok accretion ice, Environmental Microbiology, 3(9), 570-577, doi:10.1046/j.1462-2920.2001.00226.x
- D'Elia T, Veerapaneni R, Theraisnathan V and Rogers SO (2009) Isolation of fungi from Lake Vostok accretion ice. Mycologia, 101(6), 751–763, doi:10.3852/08-184
- D'Elia T, Veerapaneni R and Rogers SO (2008) Isolation of Microbes from Lake Vostok Accretion Ice, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 74(15), 4962-4965, doi:10.1128/AEM.02501-07
- Grimm RE, Stillman DE and MacGregor JA (2015) Dielectric signatures and evolution of glacier ice, Journal of Glaciology, 61(230), 1159-1170, doi:10.3189/2015JoG15J113
- Gura C and Rogers SO (2020) Metatranscriptomic and Metagenomic Analysis of Biological Diversity in Subglacial Lake Vostok (Antarctica). Biology, 9(3), 55, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology9030055
- Karl DM, Bird DF, Björkman K, Houlihan T, Shackelford R and Tupas L (1999) Microorganisms in the accreted ice of Lake Vostok, Antarctica, Science, 286(5447), 2144-2147, doi:10.1126/science.286.5447.2144
- Ma L, Catranis CM, Starmer WT and Rogers SO (1999) Revival and characterization of fungi from ancient polar ice, Mycologist, 13(2), 70-73, doi:10.1016/S0269-915X(99)80012-3
- Obbard R and Baker I (2007) The microstructure of meteoric ice from Vostok, Antarctica, Journal of Glaciology, 53(180), 41-62, doi:10.3189/172756507781833901
- Rogers SO, Shtarkman YM, Kocer ZA, Edgar R, Veerapaneni R and D'Elia T (2013) Ecology of Subglacial Lake Vostok (Antarctica), Based on Metagenomic/Metatranscriptomic Analyses of Accretion Ice. Biology, 2(2), 629-650, doi:10.3390/biology2020629
- Shtarkman YM, Kocer ZA, Edgar R, Veerapaneni RS, D'Elia T, Morris PF and Rogers SO (2013) Subglacial Lake Vostok (Antarctica) accretion ice contains a diverse set of sequences from aquatic, marine and sediment-inhabiting bacteria and eukarya. PLoS ONE, 8(7): e67221, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0067221