IEDA
Project Information
Collaborative Research: A 1500m Ice Core from South Pole
Start Date:
2012-10-01
End Date:
2019-09-30
Program:
SPICEcore
Project Website(s)
Description/Abstract
This proposal requests support for a project to drill and recover a new ice core from South Pole, Antarctica. The South Pole ice core will be drilled to a depth of 1500 m, providing an environmental record spanning approximately 40 kyrs. This core will be recovered using a new intermediate drill, which is under development by the U.S. Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO) group in collaboration with Danish scientists. This proposal seeks support to provide: 1) scientific management and oversight for the South Pole ice core project, 2) personnel for ice core drilling and core processing, 3) data management, and 3) scientific coordination and communication via scientific workshops. The intellectual merit of the work is that the analysis of stable isotopes, atmospheric gases, and aerosol-borne chemicals in polar ice has provided unique information about the magnitude and timing of changes in climate and climate forcing through time. The international ice core research community has articulated the goal of developing spatial arrays of ice cores across Antarctica and Greenland, allowing the reconstruction of regional patterns of climate variability in order to provide greater insight into the mechanisms driving climate change. The broader impacts of the project include obtaining the South Pole ice core will support a wide range of ice core science projects, which will contribute to the societal need for a basic understanding of climate and the capability to predict climate and ice sheet stability on long time scales. Second, the project will help train the next generation of ice core scientists by providing the opportunity for hands-on field and core processing experience for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. A postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington will be directly supported by this project, and many other young scientists will interact with the project through individual science proposals. Third, the project will result in the development of a new intermediate drill which will become an important resource to US ice core science community. This drill will have a light logistical footprint which will enable a wide range of ice core projects to be carried out that are not currently feasible. Finally, although this project does not request funds for outreach activities, the project will run workshops that will encourage and enable proposals for coordinated outreach activities involving the South Pole ice core science team.
Personnel
Person Role
Twickler, Mark Investigator and contact
Souney, Joseph Jr. Co-Investigator
Aydin, Murat Investigator
Steig, Eric J. Investigator
Funding
Antarctic Glaciology Award # 1142646
Antarctic Glaciology Award # 1142517
Antarctic Glaciology Award # 1141839
AMD - DIF Record(s)
Deployment
Deployment Type
South Pole field camp
Data Management Plan
None in the Database
Product Level:
1 (processed data)
Publications
  1. Winski, D. A., Fudge, T. J., Ferris, D. G., Osterberg, E. C., Fegyveresi, J. M., Cole-Dai, J., Thundercloud, Z., Cox, T. S., Kreutz, K. J., Ortman, N., Buizert, C., Epifanio, J., Brook, E. J., Beaudette, R., Severinghaus, J., Sowers, T., Steig, E. J., Kahle, E. C., Jones, T. R., Morris, V., Aydin, M., Nicewonger, M. R., Casey, K. A., Alley, R. B., Waddington, E. D., Iverson, N. A., Bay, R. C., and Souney, J. M.: The SP19 Chronology for the South Pole Ice Core – Part 1: Volcanic matching and annual-layer counting, Clim. Past Discuss. 2019 (doi:10.5194/cp-2019-61)
  2. Winski, D. A., Fudge, T. J., Ferris, D. G., Osterberg, E. C., Fegyveresi, J. M., Cole-Dai, J., Thundercloud, Z., Cox, T. S., Kreutz, K. J., Ortman, N., Buizert, C., Epifanio, J., Brook, E. J., Beaudette, R., Severinghaus, J., Sowers, T., Steig, E. J., Kahle, E. C., Jones, T. R., Morris, V., Aydin, M., Nicewonger, M. R., Casey, K. A., Alley, R. B., Waddington, E. D., Iverson, N. A., Dunbar, N. W., Bay, R. C., Souney, J. M., Sigl, M., and McConnell, J. R. (2019) The SP19 chronology for the South Pole Ice Core – Part 1: volcanic matching and annual layer counting, Clim. Past, 15, 1793–1808 (doi:10.5194/cp-15-1793-2019)
  3. Grieman, M. M., Aydin, M., McConnell, J. R., & Saltzman, E. S. (2018). Burning-derived vanillic acid in an Arctic ice core from Tunu, Northeastern Greenland. (doi:10.5194/cp-2018-46)
  4. Souney, J., Aydin, M., Steig, E., Fudge, T., & Twickler, M. (2019). The South Pole ice core (SPICEcore) project. (doi:10.1002/essoar.10500388.1)
  5. Epifanio, J. A., Brook, E. J., Buizert, C., Edwards, J. S., Sowers, T. A., Kahle, E. C., … Kennedy, J. A. (2020). The SP19 chronology for the South Pole Ice Core - Part 2: gas chronology, Δage, and smoothing of atmospheric records. (doi:10.5194/cp-2020-71)
  6. Kahle, E. C., Steig, E. J., Jones, T. R., Fudge, T. J., Koutnik, M. R., Morris, V., … White, J. W. C. (2020). Reconstruction of temperature, accumulation rate, and layer thinning from an ice core at South Pole using a statistical inverse method. (doi:10.1002/essoar.10503447.1)
  7. Epifanio, J. A., Brook, E. J., Buizert, C., Edwards, J. S., Sowers, T. A., Kahle, E. C., … Kennedy, J. A. (2020). The SP19 chronology for the South Pole Ice Core – Part 2: gas chronology, Δage, and smoothing of atmospheric records. Climate of the Past, 16(6), 2431–2444. (doi:10.5194/cp-16-2431-2020)
  8. Markle, B. R., & Steig, E. J. (2021). Improving temperature reconstructions from ice-core water-isotope records. (doi:10.5194/cp-2021-37)
  9. Winski, D. A., Osterberg, E. C., Kreutz, K. J., Ferris, D. G., Cole‐Dai, J., Thundercloud, Z., … Jones, T. R. (2021). Seasonally Resolved Holocene Sea Ice Variability Inferred From South Pole Ice Core Chemistry. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(8). (doi:10.1029/2020gl091602)
  10. Buizert, Christo; Fudge, T.J.; Roberts, William H. G.; Steig, Eric J.; Sherriff-Tadano, Sam; Ritz, Catherine; Lefebvre, Eric; Edwards, Jon; Kawamura, Kenji; Oyabu, Ikumi; Motoyama, Hideaki; Kahle, Emma C.; Jones, Tyler R.; Abe-Ouchi, Ayako; Obase, Takashi; Martin, Carlos; Corr, Hugh; Severinghaus, Jeffrey P.; Beaudette, Ross; Epifanio, Jenna; Brook, Edward J.; Martin, Kaden; Chappellaz, Jérôme; Aoki, Shuji; Nakazawa, Takakiyo; Sowers, Todd A.; Alley, Richard; Ahn, Jinho; Sigl, Michael; Severi, Mirko; Dunbar, Nelia W.; Svensson, Anders; Fegyveresi, John; He, Chengfei; Liu, Zhengyu; Zhu, Jiang; Otto-Bliesner, Bette; Lipenkov, Vladimir Y.; Kameda, Takao; Schwander, Jakob. 2021 in press. Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum. Science, 372(6546), 1097–1101 (doi:10.1126/science.abd2897)
  11. Kahle, E. C., Steig, E. J., Jones, T. R., Fudge, T. J., Koutnik, M. R., Morris, V., … White, J. W. C. (2021). Reconstruction of temperature, accumulation rate, and layer thinning from an ice core at South Pole using a statistical inverse method. (doi:10.1002/essoar.10503447.2)
  12. Kahle, E. C., Steig, E. J., Jones, T. R., Fudge, T. J., Koutnik, M. R., Morris, V. A., … White, J. W. C. (2021). Reconstruction of Temperature, Accumulation Rate, and Layer Thinning From an Ice Core at South Pole, Using a Statistical Inverse Method. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126(13). (doi:10.1029/2020jd033300)
  13. Grieman, M. M., Aydin, M., Fritzsche, D., McConnell, J. R., Opel, T., Sigl, M., & Saltzman, E. S. (2017). Aromatic acids in a Eurasian Arctic ice core: a 2600-year proxy record of biomass burning. Climate of the Past, 13(4), 395–410. (doi:10.5194/cp-13-395-2017)
  14. Grieman, M. M., Aydin, M., Isaksson, E., Schwikowski, M., & Saltzman, E. S. (2018). Aromatic acids in an Arctic ice core from Svalbard: a proxy record of biomass burning. Climate of the Past, 14(5), 637–651. (doi:10.5194/cp-14-637-2018)
  15. Nicewonger, M. R., Aydin, M., Prather, M. J., & Saltzman, E. S. (2020). Reconstruction of Paleofire Emissions Over the Past Millennium From Measurements of Ice Core Acetylene. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(3). (doi:10.1029/2019gl085101)
  16. Grieman, M. M., Aydin, M., Isaksson, E., Schwikowski, M., & Saltzman, E. S. (2017). Methoxy aromatic acids in an Arctic ice core from Svalbard: a proxy record of biomass burning. (doi:10.5194/cp-2017-121)
  17. Grieman, M. M., Aydin, M., Fritzsche, D., McConnell, J. R., Opel, T., Sigl, M., & Saltzman, E. S. (2016). Aromatic acids in a Eurasian Arctic ice core: a 3000-year proxy record of biomass burning. (doi:10.5194/cp-2016-126)
  18. Nicewonger, M. R., Aydin, M., Prather, M. J., & Saltzman, E. S. (2020). Extracting a History of Global Fire Emissions for the Past Millennium From Ice Core Records of Acetylene, Ethane, and Methane. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125(20). (doi:10.1029/2020jd032932)
  19. Kahle, E. C., Steig, E. J., Jones, T. R., Fudge, T. J., Koutnik, M. R., Morris, V., Vaughn, B., Schauer, A., Stevens, C. M., Conway, H., Waddington, E. D., Buizert, C., Epifanio, J., & White, J. W. C. (2021). Reconstruction of temperature, accumulation rate, and layer thinning from an ice core at South Pole using a statistical inverse method. (doi:10.1002/essoar.10503447.3)
  20. Markle, B. R., & Steig, E. J. (2022). Improving temperature reconstructions from ice-core water-isotope records. Climate of the Past, 18(6), 1321–1368. (doi:10.5194/cp-18-1321-2022)

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