Helheim 2006

An investigation of glacial earthquakes


Updates (latest: 2006/08/23):


Participants:


Columbia University/LDEO, USA:
Meredith Nettles, Göran Ekström, Morten Langer

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Denmark:
Andreas P. Ahlstrøm, Tine B. Larsen, Thomas Møller Jørgensen

Danish National Space Center (Danmarks Rumcenter), Denmark:
René Forsberg, Lars Stenseng
Shfaqat Abbas Khan

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA:
James L. Davis

Institute for Space Sciences, CSIC/IEEC, Spain:
Pedro Elósegui

University of Maine, USA:
Gordon Hamilton, Leigh Stearns
...with additional help and support from Søren Nielsen (GEUS).

Project funding and logistical support:

Gary Comer Science and Education Foundation
U.S. National Science Foundation
The Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland (KVUG)

Danish National Space Center

Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (MEC)
LDEO Climate Center

NASA
The Dan and Betty Churchill Exploration Fund

The GPS systems and used for the Helheim 2006 project were provided by UNAVCO and the DNSC. Shipping of the instruments to Greenland was managed by UNAVCO and VECO Polar Resources.

The Helheim 2006 project is supported by the Gary Comer Science and Education Foundation, the U.S. National Science Foundation (OPP-0612609), the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Geocenter Copenhagen, the Danish Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland (KVUG), the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (CGL2005-25079-E), the Danish National Space Center, NASA (NNG04GL69G, NNG04GK39G), the Lamont-Doherty Climate Center, and the Dan and Betty Churchill Exploration Fund.
[Note: Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF) or any other institution or organization providing support.]


Meredith Nettles, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, copyright ©2006-2008, all rights reserved.
Last modified: February 9, 2008 (MN)