A new video telling about the SRP PAIS is available
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29 March 2021
A new video telling about the SRP PAIS is available from here (9:20 minutes long version) and here (2:20 minutes long version) and from you tube links: long version https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Obituary: Franco Maria Talarico
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12 January 2021
Dear PAIS community The Antarctic geoscience community recently lost a member of our family. It is with great sadness that we publish this obituary for our friend and colleague Fra...
New feature names for the Wilkes Land (East Antarctic) continental margin
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16 December 2020
The Standing Committee for Undersea Feature Name (SCUFN) has approved some new feature names for the East Antarctic continental margin. The area is seaward of the Sabrina Coast of Wilkes Land between...
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 Antarctic submarine canyon morph
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09 November 2020
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...
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
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09 November 2020
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 m...
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. .
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09 November 2020
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...
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(
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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, Eas...
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
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09 November 2020
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
Newly combined high-resolution reconstructions of Antarctic palaeotopography and Southern Ocean palaeobathymetry for five time intervals between the Eocene–Oligocene boundary (ca. 34 Ma) and the present-day.
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05 October 2020
The grids were produced by merging separately published reconstructions of palaeotopography and palaeobathymetry from two recent studies (Paxman et al., 2019; Hochmuth et al., 2020), and are a key ou...
SCAR medal 2020 for International Scientific Coordination to Carlota Escutia
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31 August 2020
https://www.scar.org/library/capacity-building/medals/5529-escutia-citation-2020
KOPRI 19-20 Amundsen Sea expedition (ANA10B)
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29 May 2020
Jae Il Lee, Korea Polar Research Institute Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) conducts a research project that aims to reconstruct past glacial history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) and t...
The 61st Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (2019-2020)
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27 May 2020
Takuya Itaki (Geological Survey of Japan, AIST) Takeshige Ishiwa, and Yusuke Suganuma (National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan) The first sediment coring project using the ice breaker SHIRA...
International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration expeditions 2020
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22 May 2020
Frank-Oliver Nitsche Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, NY, U.S.A The Thwaites Glacier has been recognized as a critical point in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet stability. In 2018...
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/
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17 April 2020
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...
TASMANDRAKE: Campaña Powell 2020
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06 April 2020
The TASMANDRAKE research group will be sailing on board the BIO Hesperides in the expedition POWELL2020. Between 3rd January and 4th February 2020, 22 scientists and 10 techs will work together with t...
Thwaites Glacier - James Marschalek , Faculty of Engineering, Department of Earth Science & Engineering , Imperial College London
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06 April 2020
Thwaites Glacier is currently losing mass rapidly, with changing ocean conditions leading to retreat, thinning and acceleration of ice flow.The International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC)...
Mission report: A field trip across the East Antarctic Plateau to study surface mass balance now and in the last 20 000 years !
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06 April 2020
During the austral summer 2019-20, a large, cross-Antarctica campaign to evaluate spatial and temporal changes of surface mass balance (SMB) with water stable isotopes was realised by Mathieu Casado f...
Michael E. Weber, Maureen E. Raymo, Victoria L. Peck, Trevor Williams, and the Expedition 382 Scientists. Iceberg Alley and Subantarctic Ice and Ocean Dynamics. International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 382 Preliminary Report https://doi.org/10.143
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05 April 2020
Michael E. Weber, Maureen E. Raymo, Victoria L. Peck, Trevor Williams, and the Expedition 382 Scientists. Iceberg Alley and Subantarctic Ice and Ocean Dynamics. International Ocean Discovery ProgramMi...
Karsten Gohl, Julia S. Wellner, Adam Klaus, and the Expedition 379 Scientists. Amundsen Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History Development and sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet tested from drill records of the Amundsen Sea Embayment. International
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05 April 2020
Karsten Gohl, Julia S. Wellner, Adam Klaus, and the Expedition 379 Scientists. Amundsen Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History Development and sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet tested from dri...
McKay, R.M., De Santis, L., Kulhanek, D.K., and the Expedition 374 Scientists, 2019. Ross Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 374: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). htt
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05 April 2020
McKay, R.M., De Santis, L., Kulhanek, D.K., and the Expedition 374 Scientists, 2019. Ross Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 374: College S...
EUROFLEETS+ calls
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04 April 2020
Co-PI Programme Call, open from 21stNovember 2019 onwards. This running call will be open for the continuous submission of proposals until beginning of 2022. ...
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
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04 April 2020
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 oc...
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
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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/s4158...
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
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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-...
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
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Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, Marcelo Reguero. 2020 Additional Pelagornithidae remains from Seymour Island, Antarctica. International Journal of South American Earth Sciences 99 (2020) 102504. ht...
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
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02 April 2020
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 ret...
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
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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 Le...
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
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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.http...
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
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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/...
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
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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 Numeric...
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
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02 April 2020
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 re...
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.
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02 April 2020
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.
II. International Ross Sea Region Collaboration and Coordination Workshop 01 August 2020, 9am to 4:30pm Rydges Hotel, Hobart, Tasmania
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03 March 2020
II. International Ross Sea Region Collaboration and Coordination Workshop 01 August 2020, 9am to 4:30pm Rydges Hotel, Hobart, Tasmania Workshop Purpose The international science community has a...
AGU Session: Southern Ocean climate and Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics and media round table
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29 January 2020
AGU Session: Southern Ocean climate and Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics For the 2019 meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) lead scientists of recent expeditions of the International Ocean Disc...
SENECA - SourcE and impact of greeNhousE gasses in AntarctiCA
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10 January 2020
A team of scientists* from Italy, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland are collecting data in the Dry Valleys in Antarctica as part of a two-year programme to investigate the natural gas emissions...
European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD) is sponsoring merit-based awards
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23 December 2019
European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD) is sponsoring merit-based awards http://www.ecord.org/education/research-grant/
Release of the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
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23 December 2019
release of the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate https://www.ipcc.ch/srocc/
Call for proposals for funding for Ship-time or access to Marine Equipment EUROFLEETS PLUS
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23 December 2019
Call for proposals for funding for Ship-time or access to Marine Equipment EUROFLEETS PLUS also in Antarctic waters https://www.eurofleets.eu/access/sea-call-regional/
Grants to support travel for early-career researchers (ECRs) planning to attend SCAR2020 are offered by PAIS.
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11 December 2019
Grants to support travel for early-career researchers (ECRs) planning to attend the SCAR 2020 Open Science Conference https://www.scarcomnap2020.org/ are offered by PAIS The grants will be a...
International Ross Sea Region Collaboration and Coordination Workshop. 21 July 2019 Songdo Convensia. Incheon, Korea
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02 December 2019
The workshop "International Ross Sea Region Collaboration and Coordination Workshop" was held prior to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) XIII International Symposium on Antarctic E...
The ECORD Summer School: Downhole Logging for IODP Science will run from the 4th July to the 10th of July 2020 at the University of Leicester (UK)
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02 December 2019
“ECORD Summer School: Downhole Logging for IODP Science” focuses on the downhole-logging within the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and the applications of downhole measurements in variou...
Joint PAIS-PRAMSO-AISSL Meeting at 13th ISAES, 20 – 21 July 2019
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07 July 2019
Venue: Room 305, 3F Songdo Convensia (see attached map). We invite you to attend a two-day PAIS-PRAMSO-AISSL workshop at ISAES. During the first day (July20) we will update the community on PAIS activ...
Check the new JOIDES Resolution schedule
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25 March 2019
Click the Joides Resolution schedule After the successful Antarctic expeditions 374 in the Ross Sea in early 2018 https://iodp.tamu.edu/scienceops/expeditions/ross_sea_ice_sheet_history.html in t...
The March issue of Oceanography
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20 March 2019
The March issue of Oceanography https://tos.org/oceanography/issue/volume-32-issue-01 is a special issue on Scientific Ocean Drilling. Under the Theme 1. Climate and Ocean Change, you...
EU-PolarNet White Papers release
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12 March 2019
EU-PolarNet White Papers release https://www.eu-polarnet.eu/news-and-events/conferences-and-workshops/white-paper-workshop/ White Paper No. 1: The coupled polar climate system: global context, pr...
PhD in Polar Science and PhD in Science and Management of Climate Change
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12 March 2019
PhD in Polar Science and PhD in Science and Management of Climate Change call for application. University of Venice (Italy). http://www.unive.it/phd-degrees applicati...
PAIS-IODP Antarctic School
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07 February 2019
Dates: 10–14 June 2019 Location: IODP Gulf Coast Repository, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA Deadline to apply: 27 February 2019 Website: https://usoceandiscovery.org/antar...
ECORD PROCEED Workshop
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24 January 2019
ECORD PROCEED Workshop - http://www.ecord.org/science/proceed/. The workshop will be held in Vienna on 6-7 April, just before the EGU 2019. Registration is due by Februa...
ISAES 2019
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23 January 2019
The XIII International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Science https://www.isaes2019.org:12090/home/ abstract submission deadline is 27 April 2019 Abstract submission for the XIII Intern...
Travel grants available
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23 January 2019
Submit here your travel grant request to attend conferences, workshops and schools related to PAIS
De Santis, L., F. Colleoni, A. Bergamasco, M. Rebesco, D. Accettella, V. Kovacevic, J. Gales, K. Sookwan, and E. Olivo. 2018. Exploring the unknown of the Ross Sea in sea ice–free conditions, Eos, 99, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EO106159. Published on 11
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11 October 2018
De Santis, L., F. Colleoni, A. Bergamasco, M. Rebesco, D. Accettella, V. Kovacevic, J. Gales, K. Sookwan, and E. Olivo. 2018. Exploring the unknown of the Ross Sea in sea ice–free conditions...
DRILLING FOR PAST ANTARCTIC CLIMATE - THEN AND NOW
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14 June 2018
This collection of videos captures talks on this topic on the evening of 8 March, 2018, at the Lyttelton Arts Factory, New Zealand, after the return of the JOIDES Resolution from IODP...
CELEBRATING 60 YEARS OF ANTARCTIC SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND 50 YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC OCEAN DRILLING
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06 February 2018
Guest post by co-chief scientist Laura De Santis from Instituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS): This year the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and&n...
SCAR PAIS obituary for Gene Domack
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06 December 2017
Dr. Eugene Domack, Professor of Geological Oceanography at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science, died on Nov. 20, 2017 after a brief illness. Gene earned his Ph.D. in Geology from...
Katabatic winds diminish precipitation contribution to the Antarctic ice mass balance
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13 October 2017
A new field work study evaluates how katabatic winds can reduce the amount of precipitation actually reaching the surface. PNAS from Grazioli et al, 2017 Accumulation of precipitation is the principal...
East Antarctic ice sheet most vulnerable to Weddell Sea warming (Golledge et al., 2017)
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28 April 2017
The Recovery drainage basin in the eastern Weddell Sea will more likely be the first contributor of future ice loss from EAIS due to ocean warming. Geophysical Research Letters by Golledge et al. Anta...
Sabrina seafloor survey
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22 March 2017
https://sites.google.com/site/sabrinaseafloorsurvey This site follows the voyage of Australian, Italian, Spanish and American scientists on Australia's research vessel Investigator. Our voyage departs...
Obliquity-paced climate change recorded in Antarctic debris-covered glaciers
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06 March 2017
Some high-latitude glaciers are found to remain sensitive to 41 000 years obliquity variations despite a global climate paced at roughly 100 000 years. Nature communications by Mackay and Marchant. Th...
Mission report : Evaluation of the warm marine air intrusion at the French Antarctic station Dumont d’Urville using water stable isotopes as an atmospheric tracer
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01 March 2017
The first results of water vapour monitoring at the coastal station Dumont d'Urville will help to link the isotopes records from ice cores to the ice-ocean-atmosphere interactions. During the austral...
Antarctic last interglacial isotope peak in response to sea ice retreat, not ice-sheet collapse
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30 January 2017
Models evaluate the impact of the collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet and of sea ice reduction on the isotopic composition of precipitation on the East Antarctic Plateau, compared to isotopic rec...
Antarctic ice sheet discharge driven by atmosphere-ocean feedbacks at the Last Glacial Termination
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19 January 2017
A new ice core record provides clues on the evolution of the ice sheet in the Wedell sea during the last glacial termination which could improve the understanding of the ice-ocean-atmosphere feedback...
IODP Antarctic expeditions 2018-20
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16 January 2017
We want to make you aware of upcoming opportunities for Antarctic research with the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP). Two expeditions are scheduled for the 2017–2019 Antarc...
Blogs and weekly reports of the upcoming Polarstern cruise (with MeBo)
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16 January 2017
Blogs and weekly reports of the upcoming Polarstern cruise (with MeBo) The Research Vessel Polarstern is the most important resource for German polar research and the flagship of the Alfred Wegener In...
PAIS provides funding for 1-2 students
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13 January 2017
PAIS provides funding for 1-2 students to attend the Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimate: http://www.uniurb.it/ussp/ or other schools related to PAIS. Interested persons should contact Laur...