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Antarctic Glaciology: 

Antarctic Glaciology Julie Palais Program Manager NSF/Office of Polar Programs Antarctic Sciences Section

Antarctic Glaciology Program: 

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: 

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: 

Facilities/Support Services National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL) NICL-Science Management Office (NICL-SMO) Antarctic Glaciological Data Center (AGDC) Ice Core Drilling Service (ICDS)

National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL): 

NSF-USGS Cooperative Agreement Located at the Denver Federal Center National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL)

National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL): 

Ice Core Storage National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL)

National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL): 

Core Processing Line National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL)

National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL): 

Core Processing Line National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL)

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. Ice Core Drilling Services (ICDS) University of Wisconsin-Madison (formerly PICO)

Ice Core Drilling Services (ICDS)University of Wisconsin-Madison: 

Ice Core Drilling Services (ICDS) University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ice Core Data Gateway: 

2000 ICWG recommendation: 'single point-of-access' for ice core data Participants: Antarctic Glaciological Data Center World Data Center for Paleoclimatology International Ice Core Data Cooperative National Ice Core laboratory contributing scientists and programs Ice Core Data Gateway

Ice Core Data Gateway: 

Ice Core Data Gateway Status: On the web: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icgate.html Includes data sets distributed globally Incorporates metadata records Data files via ftp

West Antarctic Ice Sheet Program (WAIS): 

West Antarctic Ice Sheet Program (WAIS)

West Antarctic Ice Sheet Program (WAIS): 

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. 29-Oct. 2, 2004 Algonkian Park, Sterling, Va.

West Antarctic Ice Sheet Program (WAIS): 

Collaborative Research: West Antarctic Ice Sheet Stability: The Glacial Geologic Record from the Ohio Range of the Horlick Mountains in the Bottleneck (Borns and Mukhopadhyay) Collaborative Research: Tidal Modulation of Ice Stream Flow (Anandakrishnan and Bindschadler) Ice-flow Divide Deduced by a New Analysis of Ice-penetrating Radar Data (Raymond) Airborne Survey of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica (Holt et al.) Collaborative Research: Refining a 500-kyr Climate Record from the Moulton Blue Ice Field in West Antarctica (Sowers, White, Dunbar) Methyl chloride and methyl bromide in Antarctic ice cores (Saltzman) West Antarctic Ice Sheet Program (WAIS) Examples of Currently Funded Projects

U.S.- International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (U.S.-ITASE): 

U.S.- International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (U.S.-ITASE)

U.S.- International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition: 

U.S.- International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition

U.S.- International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (U.S.-ITASE): 

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.

U.S.- International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (U.S.-ITASE): 

U.S.- International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (U.S.-ITASE) Meteorology Remote Sensing Geophysics Surface Glaciology Ice Cores

Icebergs and Ice Shelves: 

Icebergs and Ice Shelves 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) Current Research

Antarctic Glaciology Program: Important Web sites: 

Antarctic Glaciology Program: Important Web sites WAIS (http://igloo.gsfc.nasa.gov/wais/) WAIS Divide Project (http://www.dri.edu/People/kendrick/WDSprojmain.htm) US-ITASE (http://www.ume.maine.edu/USITASE/) NICL (http://www.nicl-smo.sr.unh.edu/) AGDC (http://nsidc.org/NSF/AGDC/)