Nice press on our recent #SubglacialLake paper in #AGUAdvances

"“There’s no other way to get carbon-14 in there,” Balco (who was not involved in the study) says. “You can’t push it through ice. Organisms can’t tunnel through. The only way for it to get it there is for ocean water to get under the ice sheet.”

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/lake-antarctica-ice-microbes-carbon

In one lake deep under Antarctica’s ice, microbes feast on ancient carbon

Microorganisms living in a lake beneath the ice sheet in West Antarctica feed on ocean carbon that was deposited 6,000 years ago.

Science News