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PAIS: The Sound of a Community Effort

“Every contribution matters.” Anybody who ever played in a sport team probably heard this sentence at some point. Actually, this is completely true also as far as science is concerned. Whereas in the collective imagination science is about big discoveries made by a single genius, the truth is that great science is made little by little, step by step. Science is a community effort in which every contribution matters. And that is the concept from which this video was born.

PAIS publication acknowledgement:

Where PAIS activities have contributed to thinking or ideas behind a research publication it is appropriate to acknowledge SCAR PAIS, such as “This research is a contribution to the SCAR PAIS program”. Please notify us of the paper by emailing ldesantis@inogs.it and timothy.naish@vuw.ac.nz

SCAR Scientific Research Programme PAIS

The SCAR Scientific Research Programme PAIS (Past Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics) aims to improve understanding of the sensitivity of East, West, and Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheets to a broad range of climatic and oceanic conditions.

PAIS builds on the success of SCAR-ACE (Antarctic Climate Evolution), but with a new focus on the ice sheet rather than palaeoclimate reconstructions. Study intervals span a range of timescales, including past "greenhouse" climates warmer than today, and times of more recent warming and ice sheet retreat during glacial terminations.

Workshops

Jun

PAIS Subcommittee on Paleobathymetry-Paleotopography Workshop (POLAR 2018)

Davos

Date: 19 June 2018, 18:30

Brief Summary by Stewart Jamieson and Karsten Gohl Introduction (Stewart Jamieson) Stewart Jamieson: Stewart summarises the history,

Sep

Workshop on Holocene climate variability off Wilkes Land, East Antarctica

Date: 16 September 2017, 00:00

Organizers: Johan Etourneau, Carlota Escutia, Rob McKay & Nancy Bertler Contact person: etourneau@iact.ugr-csic.es

Sep

“Can we (re) construct predict the extent of the past and future ice shelves?”

Date: 13 September 2017

Workshop notes “Can we (re) construct predict the extent of the past and future ice shelves” Flo Colleoni, Paolo

Reports

pdf Past Antarctic Climate Dynamics 2018-19 Report Popular

In Reports

25 November 2019
pdf SCAR EXCOM 2017 Paper 11: Report on PAIS Activities and Plans Popular

In Reports

28 September 2018
pdf SCAR EXCOM 2015 WP14: Report on PAIS (Past Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics) Popular

In Reports

28 September 2018

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Scar-PAIS Youtube Channel

This activity is part of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)

News

A new video telling about the SRP PAIS is available

Conferences and workshops

The II Ross Sea Region Collaboration and Coordination workshop has been postponed until a later date due to the COVID-19 emergency and cancellation of the SCAR-OSC 2020.

Calls and opportunities

EUROFLEETS+ calls

Recent papers

Gales J. , Rebesco M., De Santis L., Bergamasco A., Colleoni F., Kim S., Accettella D., Kovacevic V., Liu Y., Olivo E., Colizza E., Florindo-Lopez C., Zgur F., McKay R. 2021. Role of dense shelf water in the development of...

Huang Xiaoxia, Bernhardt Anne, De Santis Laura, Wu Shiguo, Leitchenkov German,Harris Peter, O'Brien Philip., 2020. Seismic interpretation of canyons and mega-mass transport deposits on the Prydz Bay margin, East Antarctica- implications for Pliocene paleo

Hochmuth K., Gohl K., Leitchenkov G, Sauermilch I., Whittaker J.M., Uenzelmann- Neben G., Davy B., De Santis L. The evolving paleobathymetry of the circum-Antarctic Southern Ocean since 34 Ma – a key to understanding past cryosphere-ocean developments. .

Tooze, S., Halpin, J.A., Noble, T.L., Chase, Z., O’Brien, P.E. and Armand, L. (2020). Scratching the surface: a marine sediment provenance record from the continental slope of central Wilkes Land, East Antarctica. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21(

Armbrecht, L. (2020). The Potential of Sedimentary Ancient DNA to Reconstruct Past Ocean Ecosystems. Oceanography, 33(2), 116-123. http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2020.211

A.L. Post, P.E. O'Brien, S. Edwards, A.G. Carroll, K. Malakoff and L.K. Armand, (2020). Upper slope processes and seafloor ecosystems on the Sabrina continental slope, East Antarctica. Marine Geology Volume 422, April 2020, 106091 https://doi.org/10.1016/

Jimenez-Espejo F.J., Presti M., Kuhn G., Mckay R., Crosta X., Escutia C., Lucchi R.G., Tolotti R., Yoshimura T., Ortega Huertas M., Macrì P., Caburlotto A., De Santis L. 2020. Late Pleistocene oceanographic and depositional variations along the Wilkes Lan

Klages, J.P., Salzmann, U., Bickert, T. et al. Temperate rainforests near the South Pole during peak Cretaceous warmth. Nature 580, 81–86 . 2020. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2148-5

Jordan, T.A., Riley, T.R. & Siddoway, C.S. The geological history and evolution of West Antarctica. Nat Rev Earth Environ 1, 117–133 . 2020. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-019-0013-6

Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, Marcelo Reguero. 2020 Additional Pelagornithidae remains from Seymour Island, Antarctica. International Journal of South American Earth Sciences 99 (2020) 102504. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102504

Lindsay O. Prothro, Wojciech Majewski, Yusuke Yokoyama, Lauren M. Simkins, John B. Anderson, Masako Yamane, Yosuke Miyairi, Naohiko Ohkouchi (2020). Timing and pathways of East Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat. Quaternary Science Reviews 230 106166. https://do

Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche , Martín De Los Reyes, Sergio Santillana and Marcelo Reguero (2020). First fossilized skin of a giant penguin from the Eocene of Antarctica DOI 10.1111/let.12366 © 2020 Lethaia. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Amanda Cordes-Person, Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, Judd Case, James Martin (2020). An enigmatic bird from the lower Maastrichtian of Vega Island, Antarctica. Cretaceous Research 108, 104314.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104314

Bart, P.J., and Tulaczyk, S. (2020). A significant acceleration of ice volume discharge preceded a major retreat of a West Antarctic paleo–ice stream: Geology, v. 48, p. XXX–XXX, https://doi.org/10.1130/G46916.1

G.L. Leitchenkova,b, , Yu.I. Galushkinc , Yu.B. Gusevad, Е.P. Dubininc . Evolution of the Sedimentary Basin of the Continental Margin of Antarctica in the Cooperation Sea (from Results of Numerical Modeling). Russian Geology and Geophysics © 2020, V.S. So

Donda F., Leitchenkov G., Brancolini G., Romeo R., De Santis L., Escutia C., O'Brien P., Armand L., Caburlotto A., Cotterle D. 2020. The influence of Totten Glacier on the Late Cenozoic sedimentary record. Antarctic Science page 1 of 13. doi:10.1017/S0954

Recent field work

KOPRI 19-20 Amundsen Sea expedition (ANA10B)