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Antarctic Sciences Section. Antarctic Glaciology. Julie Palais Program Manager NSF/Office of Polar Programs. Antarctic Glaciology Program. Paleoclimate from ice cores (WAISCORES, ITASE) Ice dynamics and modeling (WAIS) Snow/Atmosphere/Ice interactions (ITASE)
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Antarctic Sciences Section Antarctic Glaciology Julie Palais Program Manager NSF/Office of Polar Programs
Antarctic Glaciology Program • Paleoclimate from ice cores (WAISCORES, ITASE) • Ice dynamics and modeling (WAIS) • Snow/Atmosphere/Ice interactions (ITASE) • Glacial Geology ( Dry Valleys, Antarctic Peninsula) • Other (Remote Sensing, Iceberg Studies)
Paleoclimate from Ice Cores • Taylor Dome Ice Core • Vostok Ice Core • Siple Dome Ice Core • Upcoming WAIS Divide Project • Byrd Ice Core • Misc. other cores (e.g. South Pole) • Shallow cores from ITASE traverses
Facilities/Support Services • National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL)* • NICL-Science Management Office (NICL-SMO) • Antarctic Glaciological Data Center (AGDC) • Ice Core Drilling Service (ICDS) • * NSF-USGS Cooperative Agreement Located at the Denver Federal Center
Ice Core Drilling Services (ICDS)University of Wisconsin-Madison (formerly PICO) • Design, fabrication and operation of ice drilling equipment in both polar regions and high altitude ice caps. • Includes electro-mechanical ice core drills, hot water drills for deep access holes, shot holes for seismic sounding and sub-ice sampling. • Notify relevant NSF program manager when you are requesting ice coring support.
Chief Scientist: Kendrick Taylor, Desert Research Institute 20 awards 11 institutions $3.7M in commitments 11 pending requests for over $3.3M Institutions involved DRI/U. Nevada, U. Colo. U.C. Irvine U.C. Berkeley Penn. State U. Washington South Dakota State Scripps/UCSD Univ. of New Hampshire Bowdoin (Maine) Oregon State U. West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core ProjectClimate, Ice Sheet History , Cryobiology
West Antarctic Ice Sheet Program (WAIS) WAIS (http://igloo.gsfc.nasa.gov/wais/) U.S. Antarctic Program, New Investigators workshop
West Antarctic Ice Sheet Program (WAIS) Ice Dynamics Studies of the Siple Coast Ice Streams • How will the unstable West Antarctic ice sheet affect future sea level? • How do rapid global climate changes occur? • Future sea-level rise? Annual WAIS Workshop Sept. 27-30, 2006 Pack Forest Conference Center, Washington (near Mt. Rainier)
U.S.- International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (U.S.-ITASE) U.S. Antarctic Program, New Investigators workshop
U.S.- International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (U.S.-ITASE) • To determine the spatial variability of Antarctic climate over the last 200+ years. • To determine the environmental variability in Antarctica over the last 200+ years. • Meteorology • Remote Sensing • Geophysics • Surface Glaciology • Ice Cores U.S. Antarctic Program, New Investigators workshop
Icebergs and Ice Shelves Current Research • Monitoring an Active Rift System at the Front of the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica (Fricker) • Collaborative Research of Earth’s Largest Icebergs ((MacAyeal, Okal, Stearns) • Melting and Calving of Antarctic Ice Shelves (Jacobs) U.S. Antarctic Program, New Investigators workshop
Antarctic Glaciology Program • Examples of Currently Funded Projects • Collaborative Research: Constructing an Ultra-high Resolution Atmospheric Methane Record for the Last 140,000 Years from WAIS Divide Core. (Sowers et al., Penn. State Univ. and other institutions) • Collaborative Research: Fluctuations of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in Relation to Lake History in Taylor Valley, Antarctica, Since the Last Glacial Maximum (Prentice et al., Plymouth State Univ. and other institutions) • Collaborative Research: Grounding Line Forensics: The History of Grounding Line Retreat in the Kamb Ice Stream Outlet Region (Catania, Univ. of Texas-Austin and Hulbe, Portland State Univ.) • US ITASE Glaciochemistry Phase 2: East Antarctica (Mayewski, University of Maine) http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/tab.do?dispatch=2
Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) http://www.cresis.ku.edu/index.html OPP-0122520 "A Mobile Sensor Web for Polar Ice Sheet Measurements." OPP-0424589 “Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (Science and Technology Center)” U.S. Antarctic Program, New Investigators workshop