Polar

AGAP: Exploring the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains in Antarctica during the International Polar Year

PI(s):

Robin E. Bell

Scientists from several nations are working together to launch a flagship program to explore a major mountain range buried by a large continental ice sheet and bounded by numerous subglacial lakes.

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AGAP: Antarctica's Gamburtsev Province

New York City International Polar Weekend

PI(s):

Stephanie Pfirman

Inter-division Event for International Polar Year.

How can you make glacier goo?

How can you make a snow shelter?

Look for fossils in your own yard!

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New York City International Polar Weekend

Location

New York, NY

United States

40° 46' 52.9896" N, 73° 58' 26.3784" W

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Antarctic and Southern Ocean Data Portal

PI(s):

Suzanne M. Carbotte

The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Data Portal provides access to geoscience data, primarily marine, from the Antarctic region.

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Antarctic and Southern Ocean Data Portal

Location

United States

81° 20' 5.4384" S, 97° 12' 25.3116" W

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Southern Ocean Circulation and overturning

PI(s):

Arnold L. Gordon

The ring of deep water around Antarctica not only links the major ocean [Atlantic/Pacific/Indian] , but also produces dense waters along the continental margins of the frozen continent, which sinks

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AnSlope: Cross-Slope Exchanges at the Antarctic Slope Front

Name	Title	Fields of interest
Douglas G. Martinson	Lamont Research Professor	Oceans and their role in climate; onset and termination of ice ages.
Margie Turrin	Education Coordinator
Natalie T. Boelman	Lamont Assistant Research Professor	Using a unique combination of measurement techniques, my research aims at improving our understanding of the multi-trophic level consequences of climate change in the arctic tundra ecosystem. Together with colleagues both at Lamont and at other institutions, I am currently exploring:
Nicholas Frearson	Senior Staff Associate
Robin E. Bell	Palisades Geophysical Institute/Lamont Research Professor	Ice Sheet Dynamics and Mass Balance, Continental Dynamics, Estuarine Processes, Linkages between ice sheet processes and subglacial geology. Interaction of ecosystems and geologic systems from microbes to benthic habitats. Tectonic uplift and feedback mechanisms, Interaction of tectonics and ice sheet dynamics. Gravity and magnetic measurement techniques for marine and airborne applications. Gravity gradiometry.
Veronica P. Lance	Adjunct Associate Research Scientist	Biological Oceanography and Ocean Biogeochemistry

Polar Survival a Century Ago: Good Planning, or Just Good Weather?

October 09, 2009

Before airplanes and satellite phones, polar exploration was a more dangerous undertaking than it is now. A new article in American Scientist retraces Nansen and Shackleton's expeditions from the perspective of modern ocean conditions and sea ice drift conditions.
Peering Under the Ice of a Collapsing Polar Coast

October 09, 2009

Starting this month, a giant NASA DC-8 aircraft loaded with geophysical instruments and scientists will buzz at low level over the coasts of West Antarctica, where ice sheets are collapsing at a pace far beyond what scientists expected a few years ago.
Explorers to Probe Hidden Antarctic Mountains

October 22, 2008

Under Miles of Ice, Range May Hold Secrets of Geology and Climate

Scientists from six nations will combine efforts over the next three months to try and penetrate one of earth’s last unexplored places: Antarctica’s vast Gamburtsev Mountains, never seen by humans...
New Map of Antarctica's Lake Vostok Reveals Two Distinct Parts

July 07, 2004

Deep in the Antarctic interior, buried under thousands of meters (more than two miles) of ice, lies Lake Vostok, the world's largest subglacial lake. Scientists believe that the waters of Lake Vostok have not been disturbed for hundreds of thousands of years, and there are tantalizing clues that microbes, isolated for at least as long, may exist.


	Antarctica's Leaky Basement	Implications for Ice Sheet Dynamics, Paleoclimate Records and Microbiology
	The Ice Beneath Their Feet	Two Scientists, One Frigid Continent, and the Thrill of Discovery
	Polar Regions	Polar Research at Lamont
	Extreme Science	An Antarctic Expedition in Search of Lost Mountains
	A Slippery Slope?	The Water World Beneath the Changing Ice Sheets