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[{"awards": "1906143 Buizert, Christo", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-112 -79)"], "date_created": "Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set contains measurements of carbon dioxide (CO2) amount fractions in gas bubbles from the WAIS Divide ice core WD06. All measurements were made in the Ice Core Laboratory at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon USA. The data set includes the replicate-mean values and measurement precision (1 sigma standard error) from all CO2 measurements published in Wendt et al. (2024) PNAS. Bauska et al. (2021) Nature Geoscience, and Marcott et al. (2014) Nature. See respective publications for details. Ages listed in years before 1950 AD on the WD2014 timescale (see Buizert et al., 2015 and Sigl et al., 2014 for chronology details).", "east": -112.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-112 -79)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; CO2; Cryosphere; Ice Core Data; WAIS Divide Ice Core; West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide", "locations": "West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide; Antarctica", "north": -79.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Wendt, Kathleen", "project_titles": null, "projects": null, "repositories": null, "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -79.0, "title": "CO2 amount fractions from WAIS Divide, Antarctica", "uid": "601775", "west": -112.0}, {"awards": "1745078 Brook, Edward", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-112.05 -79.28)"], "date_created": "Thu, 05 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This dataset includes measurements of atmospheric methane from samples from the NEEM, GISP2 and WAIS Divide ice cores. All measurements were made at the Oregon State University Ice Core and Quaternary Geochemistry Laboratory (Corvallis, OR) using an established analytical system. 433 samples from the NEEM ice core were measured between 1420 and 1560m depths. A measurement uncertainty ranging from 2.8 to 4.2 ppb, depending on the measurement year, was determined from replicate samples. 340 samples from the GISP2 ice core were measured between 1740 and 2060m depths. A measurement uncertainty ranging from 3.1 to 3.4 ppb, depending on the measurement year, was determined from replicate samples. All GISP2 and NEEM data were corrected for excess methane contamination using the established relationship between excess methane and Ca2+ (Lee et al., 2020). Both corrected and uncorrected data are included in the publication. 340 samples from the GISP2 ice core were measured between 1957 and 3081m depths. A measurement uncertainty ranging from 3.1 to 3.4 ppb, depending on the measurement year, was determined from replicate samples. Depths reflect the mid-points of the depth range of each samples, which is typically ~8cm. All replicate measurements are included in the dataset.\r\n\r\nLee, J. E. et al. Excess methane in Greenland ice cores associated with high dust concentrations. Geochimica et cosmochimica acta 270, 409-430 (2020).", "east": -112.05, "geometry": ["POINT(-112.05 -79.28)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Greenland; Ice Core Records; Methane; West Antarctic Ice Sheet", "locations": "West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarctica; Greenland", "north": -79.28, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Riddell-Young, Benjamin; Brook, Edward; Martin, Kaden; Rosen, Julia; Lee, James; Edwards, Jon S.", "project_titles": "Tracing Past Methane Variations with Stable Isotopes in Antarctic Ice Cores", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0010416", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Tracing Past Methane Variations with Stable Isotopes in Antarctic Ice Cores"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -79.28, "title": "Atmospheric methane across the Last Glacial Maximum and deglaciation from the GISP2, NEEM and WAIS Divide ice cores ", "uid": "601737", "west": -112.05}, {"awards": "1745078 Brook, Edward", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-112.05 -79.28)"], "date_created": "Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This dataset includes estimates of the atmospheric methane relative interpolar difference (rIPD) across the Last Glacial Maximum and Deglaciation. The rIPD was calculated using discrete, high-resolution methane measurements from the WAIS Divide, NEEM and GISP2 ice cores. Two independent IPD records were determined: One using NEEM and WAIS and one using GISP2 and WAIS. The dataset includes rIPD values calculated using both Greenland methane data both corrected and uncorrected for excess methane (Lee et al., 2020). The rIPD was calculated by smoothing each methane record and synchronizing them to the WD2014 gas age scale. 1-sigma rIPD uncertainties are included. This dataset also includes the output of the four-box troposphere model used to interpret the rIPD. For both excess methane-corrected records, the model output and 1-sigma uncertainty is provided for northern extratropical (30N - 90N) and total tropical (30S - 30N) sources in Tg yr-1. For the NEEM-derived rIPD, sections of the rIPD where atmospheric methane changed rapidly were deemed untrustworthy were removed from the dataset.\r\n\r\nLee, J. E. et al. Excess methane in Greenland ice cores associated with high dust concentrations. Geochimica et cosmochimica acta 270, 409-430 (2020).", "east": -112.05, "geometry": ["POINT(-112.05 -79.28)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Greenland; Methane; Paleoclimate; West Antarctic Ice Sheet", "locations": "Greenland; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarctica", "north": -79.28, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Riddell-Young, Benjamin; Brook, Edward; Rosen, Julia; Buizert, Christo; Martin, Kaden; Lee, James; Edwards, Jon S.; M\u00fchl, Michaela; Schmitt, Jochen; Fischer, Hubertus; Blunier, Thomas", "project_titles": "Tracing Past Methane Variations with Stable Isotopes in Antarctic Ice Cores", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0010416", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Tracing Past Methane Variations with Stable Isotopes in Antarctic Ice Cores"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -79.28, "title": "Atmospheric methane interpolar difference and four-box troposphere model output across the Last Glacial Maximum and Deglaciation", "uid": "601736", "west": -112.05}, {"awards": "1745078 Brook, Edward", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-112.086 -79.468)"], "date_created": "Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This dataset includes ~60-year resolution measurements of the Carbon-13 isotopic Composition of Atmospheric Methane (\u03b413C-CH4) of gas bubbles from the WAIS Divide Ice Core. All measurements were made at the Oregon State University Ice Core and Quaternary Geochemistry Laboratory (Corvallis, OR) using a new methane stable isotope analytical system. The data includes depth-adjacent replicate samples (separated by no more than 0.3m of depth) and is split up into two sheets for the two different intervals measured (Heinrich Stadial 1 and Heinrich Stadial 5 / Dansgaard Oeschger Event 12). The data are displayed as a function of WAIS Divide depth and were corrected for gravitational and diffusional fractionation that occurs in the firn column according to Buizert et al., 2013. 1-sigma measurement uncertainty is also included and is determined from analytical uncertainty and uncertainties associated with diffusional and gravitational fractionation.\r\n\r\nThe manuscript presenting and analyzing these data is in preparation for publication as of April 2023. 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Only data collected in AGASEA is contained in this specific product.\r\nThis data set is linked to PH.D thesis Muldoon, G. 2018 \"West Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreat during the Last Interglacial\"Spatial and temporal distributions of accumulation rates on the catchment of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica\", University of Texas at Austin\r\n https://doi.org/10.15781/T23B5WS0D\r\nThe internal radar horizon (IRH) was traced semi-automatically by Gail R. Muldoon using Haliburtons\u0027s Landmark software and picker, in a combination of 2D focused and unfocused data.\r\nDepths were calculated using a 2 way velocity in ice of 84.5 m/microsecond, and no firn correction. \r\n\r\nIsochron age is 4711 (+/- 246 ) years. \r\n\r\nFunding for this dataset as provided by NSF grants and The G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation.", "east": -95.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-115.5 -77.5)"], "keywords": "Antarchitecture; Antarctica; Ice Penetrating Radar; Isochron; Layers; Radar; Radioglaciology; Thwaites Glacier", "locations": "Thwaites Glacier; Antarctica", "north": -74.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Earth Sciences; Antarctic Earth Sciences; Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Muldoon, Gail R.; Young, Duncan A.; Jackson, Charles; Blankenship, Donald D.", "project_titles": "Airborne Geophysical Survey of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica (AGASEA); Collaborative Research: Synthesis of Thwaites Glacier Dynamics: Diagnostic and Prognostic Sensitivity Studies of a West Antarctic Outlet System; Geophysical Investigations of Marie Byrd Land Lithospheric Evolution (GIMBLE)", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000435", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Geophysical Investigations of Marie Byrd Land Lithospheric Evolution (GIMBLE)"}, {"proj_uid": "p0000174", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Synthesis of Thwaites Glacier Dynamics: Diagnostic and Prognostic Sensitivity Studies of a West Antarctic Outlet System"}, {"proj_uid": "p0000243", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Airborne Geophysical Survey of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica (AGASEA)"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -81.0, "title": "AGASEA 4.7 ka Englacial Isochron over the Thwaites Glacier Catchment", "uid": "601673", "west": -136.0}, {"awards": "1543537 Priscu, John", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-149.50134 -84.640287)"], "date_created": "Fri, 03 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This dataset contains measurements of sediment porewater properties from cores collected from Mercer Subglacial Lake by the SALSA project. Included are: specific conductance; water stable isotopes (\u03b42H and \u03b418O); dissolved gases (methane and its stable isotopes \u03b413C and \u03b42H, ethylene, and ethane); and major anions and cations.", "east": -149.50134, "geometry": ["POINT(-149.50134 -84.640287)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Gas; Geochemistry; Glacier; Glaciology; Mercer Subglacial Lake; Methane; SALSA; Sediment Core; West Antarctic Ice Sheet", "locations": "Mercer Subglacial Lake; Mercer Subglacial Lake; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarctica", "north": -84.640287, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Dore, John; Michaud, Alexander; Skidmore, Mark; Tranter, Martyn; Steigmeyer, August; Science Team, SALSA", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA): Integrated Study of Carbon Cycling in Hydrologically-active Subglacial Environments", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0010119", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA): Integrated Study of Carbon Cycling in Hydrologically-active Subglacial Environments"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -84.640287, "title": "Sediment porewater properties data from Mercer Subglacial Lake", "uid": "601664", "west": -149.50134}, {"awards": "1543537 Priscu, John", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-149.50134 -84.640287)"], "date_created": "Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This dataset contains water column biogeochemical properties measured on discrete samples collected from Mercer Subglacial Lake by the SALSA project. Data included are: specific conductance; carbonic acid system parameters (total alkalinity, total inorganic carbon, and pH); water stable isotopes (\u03b42H and \u03b418O); dissolved gases (oxygen, methane, nitrous oxide, and hydrogen); dissolved nutrients (ammonium, nitrite and phosphate), major anions (including nitrate) and cations; size-fractionated colloidal and dissolved trace elements); dissolved organic carbon; and microbial cell and virus-like particle counts.", "east": -149.50134, "geometry": ["POINT(-149.50134 -84.640287)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Carbon; Cell Counts; Geochemistry; Glacier; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Mercer Subglacial Lake; Microbes; Nutrients; SALSA; Stable Isotopes; Trace Elements; West Antarctic Ice Sheet", "locations": "Mercer Subglacial Lake; Mercer Subglacial Lake; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarctica", "north": -84.640287, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Dore, John; Skidmore, Mark; Hawkings, Jon; Steigmeyer, August; Li, Wei; Barker, Joel; Tranter, Martyn; Priscu, John; Science Team, SALSA", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA): Integrated Study of Carbon Cycling in Hydrologically-active Subglacial Environments", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0010119", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA): Integrated Study of Carbon Cycling in Hydrologically-active Subglacial Environments"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -84.640287, "title": "Water column biogeochemical data from Mercer Subglacial Lake", "uid": "601663", "west": -149.50134}, {"awards": "1543537 Priscu, John", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-149.50134 -84.640287)"], "date_created": "Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This dataset contains bulk sediment properties measurements from cores collected from Mercer Subglacial Lake by the SALSA project. Included are: physical properties (bulk density, mass water content, porosity, shear strength, particle size distribution, and mineralogy); carbon (inorganic and organic); iron (ascorbate- and dithionite-extractable); and sulfur (acid-volatile and chromium-reducible).", "east": -149.50134, "geometry": ["POINT(-149.50134 -84.640287)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Carbon; Glacier; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Iron; Mercer Subglacial Lake; Mineralogy; Particle Size; Physical Properties; SALSA; Sediment Core; Sulfur; West Antarctic Ice Sheet", "locations": "Mercer Subglacial Lake; Mercer Subglacial Lake; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarctica", "north": -84.640287, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Dore, John; Campbell, Timothy; Michaud, Alexander; Hawkings, Jon; Skidmore, Mark; Tranter, Martyn; Venturelli, Ryan A; Science Team, SALSA", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA): Integrated Study of Carbon Cycling in Hydrologically-active Subglacial Environments", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0010119", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA): Integrated Study of Carbon Cycling in Hydrologically-active Subglacial Environments"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -84.640287, "title": "Discrete bulk sediment properties data from Mercer Subglacial Lake", "uid": "601661", "west": -149.50134}, {"awards": "1807522 Jones, Tyler; 1043092 Steig, Eric", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-112.085 -79.467)"], "date_created": "Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "We analyzed a continuous record of water-isotope ratios from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide ice core to reveal summer and winter temperature changes through the last 11,000 years. ", "east": -112.085, "geometry": ["POINT(-112.085 -79.467)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core; Ice Core Records; Seasonality; Seasonal Temperatures; Temperature; Water Isotopes; West Antarctic Ice Sheet", "locations": "West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarctica", "north": -79.467, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology; Antarctic Earth Sciences", "persons": "Jones, Tyler R.", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Stable Isotopes of Ice in the Transition and Glacial Sections of the WAIS Divide Deep Ice Core; Collaborative Research: Targeted resampling of deep polar ice cores using information theory", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000078", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Stable Isotopes of Ice in the Transition and Glacial Sections of the WAIS Divide Deep Ice Core"}, {"proj_uid": "p0010100", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Targeted resampling of deep polar ice cores using information theory"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -79.467, "title": "Seasonal temperatures in West Antarctica during the Holocene ", "uid": "601603", "west": -112.085}, {"awards": "1744949 Campbell, Seth", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-127.5 -77,-127.4 -77,-127.3 -77,-127.2 -77,-127.1 -77,-127 -77,-126.9 -77,-126.8 -77,-126.7 -77,-126.6 -77,-126.5 -77,-126.5 -77.04,-126.5 -77.08,-126.5 -77.12,-126.5 -77.16,-126.5 -77.2,-126.5 -77.24,-126.5 -77.28,-126.5 -77.32,-126.5 -77.36,-126.5 -77.4,-126.6 -77.4,-126.7 -77.4,-126.8 -77.4,-126.9 -77.4,-127 -77.4,-127.1 -77.4,-127.2 -77.4,-127.3 -77.4,-127.4 -77.4,-127.5 -77.4,-127.5 -77.36,-127.5 -77.32,-127.5 -77.28,-127.5 -77.24,-127.5 -77.2,-127.5 -77.16,-127.5 -77.12,-127.5 -77.08,-127.5 -77.04,-127.5 -77))"], "date_created": "Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "Here we deposited data sets from the 2018-2019 Mt. 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Waesche ground-penetrating radar data 2018-2019", "uid": "601490", "west": -127.5}, {"awards": "0839042 Caffee, Marc; 0839137 Welten, Kees", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-113 -79.25,-112.8 -79.25,-112.6 -79.25,-112.4 -79.25,-112.2 -79.25,-112 -79.25,-111.8 -79.25,-111.6 -79.25,-111.4 -79.25,-111.2 -79.25,-111 -79.25,-111 -79.3,-111 -79.35,-111 -79.4,-111 -79.45,-111 -79.5,-111 -79.55,-111 -79.6,-111 -79.65,-111 -79.7,-111 -79.75,-111.2 -79.75,-111.4 -79.75,-111.6 -79.75,-111.8 -79.75,-112 -79.75,-112.2 -79.75,-112.4 -79.75,-112.6 -79.75,-112.8 -79.75,-113 -79.75,-113 -79.7,-113 -79.65,-113 -79.6,-113 -79.55,-113 -79.5,-113 -79.45,-113 -79.4,-113 -79.35,-113 -79.3,-113 -79.25))"], "date_created": "Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This is the second part of the 10Be data set for the WAIS Divide Core WDC06A ice core, from 1190.69 to 2453.25 m depth, produced by UC Berkeley\u0027s Space Sciences Laboratory and Purdue University\u0027s PRIME Laboratory. Each sample represents a continuous ice core section of ~3 m long (although they vary from 1.9 to 4.2 m). Experimental procedures for the extraction of 10Be from the ice samples and the measurement of 10Be by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) are described in Woodruff et al. (2013).", "east": -111.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-112 -79.5)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; West Antarctic Ice Sheet", "locations": "West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarctica", "north": -79.25, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology; Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Welten, Kees; Nishiizumi, Kunihiko; Caffee, M. W.; Woodruff, T. E.", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Cosmogenic Radionuclides in the Deep WAIS Divide Core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000103", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Cosmogenic Radionuclides in the Deep WAIS Divide Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -79.75, "title": "Cosmogenic 10Be in WAIS Divide Ice core, 1190-2453 m", "uid": "601466", "west": -113.0}, {"awards": "1542723 Alexander, Becky", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-112.05 -79.28)"], "date_created": "Tue, 22 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This dataset contains measurements of nitrate oxygen (D17O) and nitrogen (d15N) isotopes from the WAIS Divide ice core (WDC06A). The time resolution is variable throughout the record. The data includes 15 discreet samples between 2900 - 67,000 years before 1950 and 305 continuous measurements between 36,000-52,000 years before 1950. The depth range is 700 - 3401 m. Each sample covered 1 m depth. The time resolution ranged from 5 years/m at the top to 200 years/m at the bottom.", "east": -112.05, "geometry": ["POINT(-112.05 -79.28)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Chemistry; Ice Core Records; Nitrate; Nitrate Isotopes; WAIS Divide Ice Core; West Antarctic Ice Sheet", "locations": "West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarctica", "north": -79.28, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Alexander, Becky", "project_titles": "Measuring an Ice-core Proxy for Relative Oxidant Abundances over Glacial-interglacial and Rapid Climate changes in a West Antarctic Ice Core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0010403", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Measuring an Ice-core Proxy for Relative Oxidant Abundances over Glacial-interglacial and Rapid Climate changes in a West Antarctic Ice Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -79.28, "title": "WAIS Divide ice core nitrate isotopes", "uid": "601456", "west": -112.05}, {"awards": "1141839 Steig, Eric; 1643394 Buizert, Christo; 1443470 Aydin, Murat; 1142517 Aydin, Murat; 1443397 Kreutz, Karl; 1443472 Brook, Edward; 1443710 Severinghaus, Jeffrey; 1443105 Steig, Eric; 1804154 Sowers, Todd; 1443464 Sowers, Todd", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(99.16 -89.99)"], "date_created": "Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "We present the SP19 gas chronology for the South Pole ice core. The chronology is based on stratigraphic matching of abrupt methane (CH4) changes. To construct the chronology, abrupt changes in CH4 during the glacial period and small, 20-30ppb, centennial scale changes in CH4 were used with analogous data from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide ice core. Stratigraphic matching was verified by an optimization algorithm. The ages cover the last 52,586 years. Absolute uncertainty increases with depth until \u00b1 540 years. 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", "east": -120.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-150 -82.5)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Pollen; West Antarctica; WISSARD", "locations": "West Antarctica; West Antarctica; Antarctica", "north": -80.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Integrated System Science", "persons": "Coenen, Jason; Baudoin, Patrick; Warny, Sophie; Askin, Rosemary; Scherer, Reed Paul; Casta\u00f1eda, Isla", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Integrative Study of Marine Ice Sheet Stability \u0026 Subglacial Life Habitats in W Antarctica - Lake \u0026 Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (LISSARD)", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000105", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Integrative Study of Marine Ice Sheet Stability \u0026 Subglacial Life Habitats in W Antarctica - Lake \u0026 Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (LISSARD)"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WISSARD", "south": -85.0, "title": "Paleogene marine and terrestrial development of the West Antarctic Rift System: Palynomorph Data Set", "uid": "601245", "west": 180.0}, {"awards": "0539578 Alley, Richard; 1043528 Alley, Richard", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-112.3 -79.43333333)"], "date_created": "Tue, 12 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set includes the fully updated (2017) bubble number-density measured at depths from 120 meters down to 1600 meters at 20-meter intervals in both horizontal and vertical samples. The data set also includes modeled temperature reconstructions based on the model developed by Spencer and others (2006) and Fegyveresi and others (2011). Data also includes tabs for bubble size and shape data.", "east": -112.3, "geometry": ["POINT(-112.3 -79.43333333)"], "keywords": "Antarctic; Antarctica; Bubble Number Density; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice; Ice Core Data; Ice Core Records; NSF-ICF Microtome and Photography Stage; Paleoclimate; Physical Properties; Snow/ice; Snow/Ice; WAIS Divide Ice Core; West Antarctic Ice Sheet", "locations": "Antarctic; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarctica", "north": -79.43333333, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Earth Sciences; Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Fegyveresi, John; Alley, Richard; Spencer, Matthew; Fitzpatrick, Joan; Voigt, Donald E.", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Continued Study of Physical Properties of the WAIS Divide Deep Core; Collaborative Research: Physical Properties of the WAIS Divide Deep Core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000038", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Physical Properties of the WAIS Divide Deep Core"}, {"proj_uid": "p0000027", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Continued Study of Physical Properties of the WAIS Divide Deep Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -79.43333333, "title": "Updated (2017) bubble number-density, size, shape, and modeled paleoclimate data", "uid": "601224", "west": -112.3}, {"awards": "1443420 Dodd, Justin", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(167.083333 -77.888889)"], "date_created": "Sun, 27 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "The Andrill-1B (AND-1B) sediment core from under the Ross Ice Shelf in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, recovered a mid to late Pliocene (~4.68 to 3.44 Ma) age diatomite unit with d18Odiatom values that range from +32.6 to +37.6 \u2030 (n=50 ", "east": 167.083333, "geometry": ["POINT(167.083333 -77.888889)"], "keywords": "And-1B; Andrill; Antarctica; Chemistry:sediment; Chemistry:Sediment; Delta 18O; Diatom; Mass Spectrometer; Oxygen Isotope; Paleoclimate; Pliocene; Sediment; Wais Project; West Antarctic Ice Sheet", "locations": "West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarctica", "north": -77.888889, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Earth Sciences", "persons": "Dodd, Justin; Abbott, Tirzah", "project_titles": "Diatom and Oxygen Isotope Evidence of Pliocene Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics and Ross Sea Paleoceanography", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0010042", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Diatom and Oxygen Isotope Evidence of Pliocene Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics and Ross Sea Paleoceanography"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "ANDRILL", "south": -77.888889, "title": "Diatom Oxygen Isotope Evidence of Pliocene (~4.68 to 3.44 Ma) Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics and Ross Sea Paleoceanography", "uid": "601220", "west": 167.083333}, {"awards": "1341728 Stone, John", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-86.3 -81,-86.17 -81,-86.04 -81,-85.91 -81,-85.78 -81,-85.65 -81,-85.52 -81,-85.39 -81,-85.26 -81,-85.13 -81,-85 -81,-85 -81.03,-85 -81.06,-85 -81.09,-85 -81.12,-85 -81.15,-85 -81.18,-85 -81.21,-85 -81.24,-85 -81.27,-85 -81.3,-85.13 -81.3,-85.26 -81.3,-85.39 -81.3,-85.52 -81.3,-85.65 -81.3,-85.78 -81.3,-85.91 -81.3,-86.04 -81.3,-86.17 -81.3,-86.3 -81.3,-86.3 -81.27,-86.3 -81.24,-86.3 -81.21,-86.3 -81.18,-86.3 -81.15,-86.3 -81.12,-86.3 -81.09,-86.3 -81.06,-86.3 -81.03,-86.3 -81))"], "date_created": "Wed, 09 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set contains measurements of cosmic-ray-produced Be-10 and Al-26 in quartz from the RB-2 core, recovered from bedrock at a depth of 150 m below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet surface in the Pirrit Hills. The core site is located at latitude S81.09948, longitude W85.15694. Core length is approximately 8 meters. Lithology is A-type granite, similar in composition to bedrock exposed on nearby Harter Nunatak and other mountains in the Pirrit Hills (Lee et al. Geosci. J. 16, 421-433). Samples were processed at the University of Washington Cosmogenic Nuclide Laboratory. Chemical processing and purification methods are described at http://depts.washington.edu/cosmolab/chem.shtml. Beryllium isotope ratios were measured at the Lawrence Livermore Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (LLNL-CAMS) relative to the KNSTD-Be-01-5-4 standard, assuming a standard Be-10/Be-9 ratio of 2.851E-12 (07KNSTD normalization). Aluminum isotope ratios were measured at PRIME Lab, Purdue University, relative to the KNSTD-Al-01-5-2 standard, assuming a standard Al-26/Al-27 ratio of 1.818E-12 (KNSTD normalization). Uncertainties are 1-sigma and include full AMS errors and all known sources of laboratory uncertainty.", "east": -85.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-85.65 -81.15)"], "keywords": "Aluminum-26; Antarctica; Be-10; Bedrock Core; Beryllium-10; Chemistry:rock; Chemistry:Rock; Cosmogenic; Cosmogenic Dating; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Isotope Data; Pirrit Hills; Rocks; Solid Earth; Subglacial Bedrock", "locations": "Pirrit Hills; Antarctica", "north": -81.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Stone, John", "project_titles": "EXPROBE-WAIS: Exposed Rock Beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, A Test for Interglacial Ice Sheet Collapse", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0010057", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "EXPROBE-WAIS: Exposed Rock Beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, A Test for Interglacial Ice Sheet Collapse"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -81.3, "title": "Pirrit Hills subglacial bedrock core RB-2, cosmogenic Be-10, Al-26 data", "uid": "601214", "west": -86.3}, {"awards": "1443336 Osterberg, Erich", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-180 -90)"], "date_created": "Thu, 29 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "The South Pole Ice Core (SPICEcore) was drilled in 2014-2016 to provide a detailed multi-proxy archive of paleoclimate conditions in East Antarctica during the Holocene and late Pleistocene. Interpretation of these records requires an accurate depth-age relationship. Here, we present the SP19 timescale for the age of the ice of SPICEcore. SP19 is synchronized to the WD2014 chronology from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS Divide) ice core using stratigraphic matching of 251 volcanic events. These events indicate an age of 54,302 +/- 519 years BP (before the year 1950) at the bottom of SPICEcore. Annual layers identified in sodium and magnesium ions to 11,341 BP were used to interpolate between stratigraphic volcanic tie points, yielding an annually-resolved chronology through the Holocene. Estimated timescale uncertainty during the Holocene is less than 18 years relative to WD2014, with the exception of the interval between 1800 to 3100 BP when uncertainty estimates reach +/- 25 years due to widely spaced volcanic tie points. Prior to the Holocene, uncertainties remain within 124 years relative to WD2014. Results show an average Holocene accumulation rate of 7.4 cm/yr (water equivalent). The time variability of accumulation rate is consistent with expectations for steady-state ice flow through the modern spatial pattern of accumulation rate. Time variations in nitrate concentration, nitrate seasonal amplitude, and \u03b415N of N2 in turn are as expected for the accumulation-rate variations. The highly variable yet well-constrained Holocene accumulation history at the site can help improve scientific understanding of deposition-sensitive climate proxies such as \u03b415N of N2 and photolyzed chemical compounds.", "east": -180.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-180 -90)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Calcium (ca); Chemistry:ice; Chemistry:Ice; Depth; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciochemistry; Glaciology; Ice; Ice Core; Ice Core Chemistry; Ice Core Data; Ice Core Records; Ice Core Stratigraphy; Nitrate; Nitrogen Isotopes; Paleoclimate; Snow/ice; Snow/Ice; South Pole; SPICEcore", "locations": "South Pole; Antarctica", "north": -90.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Winski, Dominic A.; Fudge, T. J.; Dunbar, Nelia; Buizert, Christo; Bay, Ryan; Souney, Joseph Jr.; Sigl, Michael; McConnell, Joseph; Fegyveresi, John; Cole-Dai, Jihong; Thundercloud, Zayta; Cox, Thomas S.; Kreutz, Karl; Epifanio, Jenna; Ortman, Nikolas; Brook, Edward J.; Beaudette, Ross; Sowers, Todd A.; Steig, Eric J.; Morris, Valerie; Kahle, Emma; Ferris, David G.; Aydin, Murat; Nicewonger, Melinda R.; Casey, Kimberly A.; Alley, Richard; Waddington, Edwin D.; Osterberg, Erich; Severinghaus, Jeffrey P.; Jones, Tyler R.; Iverson, Nels", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: South Pole Ice Core Chronology and Climate Records using Chemical and Microparticle Measurements", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0010051", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: South Pole Ice Core Chronology and Climate Records using Chemical and Microparticle Measurements"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "SPICEcore", "south": -90.0, "title": "The South Pole Ice Core (SPICEcore) chronology and supporting data", "uid": "601206", "west": -180.0}, {"awards": "0944191 Taylor, Kendrick; 0944197 Waddington, Edwin", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-115 -80,-114.5 -80,-114 -80,-113.5 -80,-113 -80,-112.5 -80,-112 -80,-111.5 -80,-111 -80,-110.5 -80,-110 -80,-110 -79.9,-110 -79.8,-110 -79.7,-110 -79.6,-110 -79.5,-110 -79.4,-110 -79.3,-110 -79.2,-110 -79.1,-110 -79,-110.5 -79,-111 -79,-111.5 -79,-112 -79,-112.5 -79,-113 -79,-113.5 -79,-114 -79,-114.5 -79,-115 -79,-115 -79.1,-115 -79.2,-115 -79.3,-115 -79.4,-115 -79.5,-115 -79.6,-115 -79.7,-115 -79.8,-115 -79.9,-115 -80))"], "date_created": "Fri, 12 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "Images of the multi-track electrical data for depths below 1956 m are given in mt_compiled_1958_3406.pdf. Images are approximately to scale. Data for individual sections can be obtained by contacting T.J. Fudge at tjfudge@uw.edu.\r\n\r\nWarm colors are high electrical conductivity. Cool colors are low electrical conductivity. Each track is normalized by subtracting the mean and dividing by the standard deviation. Plotted values are a 3-measurement (3mm) running average. Measurements affected by breaks in the core have been masked out.\r\n\r\nX-axis is approximate horizontal position on the ice core, as measured from left from looking from bottom to top of the core. Y-axis is depth in meters. Title is the tube number. \r\n", "east": -110.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-112.5 -79.5)"], "keywords": "Antarctic; Antarctica; Electrical Conductivity; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice; Ice Core Data; Ice Core Records; Physical Properties; Snow/ice; Snow/Ice; WAIS Divide; WAIS Divide Ice Core; Wais Project; West Antarctic Ice Sheet", "locations": "Antarctic; WAIS Divide; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarctica", "north": -79.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology; Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Fudge, T. J.; Taylor, Kendrick C.", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Establishing the Chronology and Histories of Accumulation and Ice Dynamics for the WAIS Divide Core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000026", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Establishing the Chronology and Histories of Accumulation and Ice Dynamics for the WAIS Divide Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -80.0, "title": "WAIS Divide Multi Track Electrical Measurements", "uid": "601172", "west": -115.0}, {"awards": "9725024 Jacobs, Stanley; 9909374 Fairbanks, Richard", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((140 -65.5,141 -65.5,142 -65.5,143 -65.5,144 -65.5,145 -65.5,146 -65.5,147 -65.5,148 -65.5,149 -65.5,150 -65.5,150 -65.75,150 -66,150 -66.25,150 -66.5,150 -66.75,150 -67,150 -67.25,150 -67.5,150 -67.75,150 -68,149 -68,148 -68,147 -68,146 -68,145 -68,144 -68,143 -68,142 -68,141 -68,140 -68,140 -67.75,140 -67.5,140 -67.25,140 -67,140 -66.75,140 -66.5,140 -66.25,140 -66,140 -65.75,140 -65.5))"], "date_created": "Mon, 11 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "Summer Oceanographic Measurements near the Mertz Polynya (140-150E) on NB Palmer Cruise 00-08. 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The data can also be obtained from the various investigators and data centers, including the British Oceanographic Data Centre, the National Oceanographic Data Center, and the Korean Oceanographic Data Center. This dataset is used in the publication by Jenkins and collaborators in Nature Geoscience, 2018, entitled West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat in the Amundsen Sea driven by decadal oceanic variability.", "east": -110.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-112.5 -74)"], "keywords": "Amundsen Sea; Antarctica; Dotson Ice Shelf; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Ocean Properties; Oceans; Physical Oceanography; West Antarctica", "locations": "West Antarctica; Amundsen Sea; Dotson Ice Shelf; Antarctica", "north": -73.5, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences", "persons": "Dutrieux, Pierre; Jacobs, Stanley; Jenkins, Adrian; Stammerjohn, Sharon", "project_titles": null, "projects": null, "repositories": null, "science_programs": null, "south": -74.5, "title": "CTDP/LADCP profile data along Dotson ice shelf calving front from 2000 to 2016", "uid": "601105", "west": -115.0}, {"awards": "1245899 Kowalewski, Douglas", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((160 -70,168 -70,176 -70,184 -70,192 -70,200 -70,208 -70,216 -70,224 -70,232 -70,240 -70,240 -71.5,240 -73,240 -74.5,240 -76,240 -77.5,240 -79,240 -80.5,240 -82,240 -83.5,240 -85,232 -85,224 -85,216 -85,208 -85,200 -85,192 -85,184 -85,176 -85,168 -85,160 -85,160 -83.5,160 -82,160 -80.5,160 -79,160 -77.5,160 -76,160 -74.5,160 -73,160 -71.5,160 -70))"], "date_created": "Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "Data here is output from regional climate modeling to shed light on the range of possible environmental conditions in the McMurdo region during periods of grounded ice expansion and recession during the Plio-Pleistocene.", "east": 240.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-160 -77.5)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Climate Model; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Sheet Model; Mcmurdo; Paleoclimate; Ross Sea", "locations": "Mcmurdo; Ross Sea; Antarctica", "north": -70.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Earth Sciences", "persons": "Kowalewski, Douglas", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: West Antarctic Ice Sheet stability, Alpine Glaciation, and Climate Variability: a Terrestrial Perspective from Cosmogenic-nuclide Dating in McMurdo Sound", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000391", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: West Antarctic Ice Sheet stability, Alpine Glaciation, and Climate Variability: a Terrestrial Perspective from Cosmogenic-nuclide Dating in McMurdo Sound"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -85.0, "title": "Region Climate Model Output Plio-Pleistocene", "uid": "601080", "west": 160.0}, {"awards": "0839075 Priscu, John", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-112 -79)"], "date_created": "Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set includes raw concentration of prokaryotic cells for the WAIS Divide deep core, WDC06A, from 1,764 m to 2,709 m. Data were collected by a method that combines acquisition of discrete samples using a continuous ice-core melting system (McConnell et al., 2002) coupled with flow cytometry of DNA-stained samples. The method is described in detail in Santibanez et al., 2016. \r\r\nWe present the first long-term, highly resolved prokaryotic cell concentration record obtained from a polar ice core. This record, obtained from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide (WD) ice core, spanned from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to the early Holocene (EH) and showed distinct fluctuations in prokaryotic cell concentration coincident with major climatic states. This record provided strong evidence that airborne prokaryotic cell deposition differed during the LGM, LDG and EH, and that these changes in cell densities could be explained by different environmental conditions during each of these climatic periods. Our observations provide the first ice core time-series evidence for a prokaryotic response to long-term climatic and environmental processes.", "east": -112.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-112 -79)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Biota; Cell Counts; Glaciology; Microbiology; WAIS Divide; WAIS Divide Ice Core", "locations": "WAIS Divide; Antarctica", "north": -79.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Santibanez, Pamela; Priscu, John", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Integrated High Resolution Chemical and Biological Measurements on the Deep WAIS Divide Core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000273", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Integrated High Resolution Chemical and Biological Measurements on the Deep WAIS Divide Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -79.0, "title": "Prokaryotic cell concentration record from the WAIS Divide ice core", "uid": "601072", "west": -112.0}, {"awards": "0944348 Taylor, Kendrick; 0944266 Twickler, Mark", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-112.08 -79.46)"], "date_created": "Thu, 01 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "Qualitative assessment of ice-core quality versus depth for the deep WAIS Divide WDC06A ice core. The depths and core quality ratings presented here are from the field observations made at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, during the course of the drilling of the ice core. Depths are in meters. Core quality ratings were defined are as follows. Excellent: -1 breaks/no fractures; Very Good: -2 breaks/90% no fractures; Good: -3 breaks/50% no fractures; Fair: \u003e10 cm without fractures; Poor: \u003e10 cm without through fractures; Very Poor: \u003c10 cm without through fractures.", "east": -112.08, "geometry": ["POINT(-112.08 -79.46)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; WAIS Divide Ice Core", "locations": "Antarctica", "north": -79.46, "nsf_funding_programs": null, "persons": "Taylor, Kendrick C.; Souney, Joseph Jr.; Twickler, Mark", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Climate, Ice Dynamics and Biology using a Deep Ice Core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Ice Divide", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000080", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Climate, Ice Dynamics and Biology using a Deep Ice Core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Ice Divide"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -79.46, "title": "WAIS Divide WDC06A Core Quality Versus Depth", "uid": "601030", "west": -112.08}, {"awards": "0944348 Taylor, Kendrick", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-112.1115 -79.481)"], "date_created": "Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This is a summary of results 2005-2016 from the NSF-funded WAIS Divide Ice Core project, compiled by the Science Coordination Office.", "east": -112.1115, "geometry": ["POINT(-112.1115 -79.481)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; WAIS Divide Ice Core", "locations": "Antarctica", "north": -79.481, "nsf_funding_programs": null, "persons": "Taylor, Kendrick C.", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Climate, Ice Dynamics and Biology using a Deep Ice Core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Ice Divide", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000080", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Climate, Ice Dynamics and Biology using a Deep Ice Core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Ice Divide"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -79.481, "title": "Summary of Results from the WAIS Divide Ice Core Project", "uid": "601021", "west": -112.1115}, {"awards": "0944197 Waddington, Edwin", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-112.1115 -79.481)"], "date_created": "Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS Divide, WD) ice core is a newly drilled, high-accumulation deep ice core that provides Antarctic climate records of the past ~68 ka at unprecedented temporal resolution. The upper 2850 m (back to 31.2 ka BP) have been dated using annual-layer counting. Here we present a chronology for the deep part of the core (67.8-31.2 ka BP), which is based on stratigraphic matching to annual-layer-counted Greenland ice cores using globally well-mixed atmospheric methane. We calculate the WD gas age-ice age difference (Delta age) using a combination of firn densification modeling, ice-flow modeling, and a data set of d15N-N2, a proxy for past firn column thickness. The largest Delta age at WD occurs during the Last Glacial Maximum, and is 525 +/- 120 years. Internally consistent solutions can be found only when assuming little to no influence of impurity content on densification rates, contrary to a recently proposed hypothesis. We synchronize the WD chronology to a linearly scaled version of the layer-counted Greenland Ice Core Chronology (GICC05), which brings the age of Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) events into agreement with the U/Th absolutely dated Hulu Cave speleothem record. The small Delta age at WD provides valuable opportunities to investigate the timing of atmospheric greenhouse gas variations relative to Antarctic climate, as well as the interhemispheric phasing of the \\\"bipolar seesaw\\\".\n\nWe present the WD2014 chronology for the upper part (0-2850 m; 31.2 ka BP) of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide (WD) ice core. The chronology is based on counting of annual layers observed in the chemical, dust and electrical conductivity records. These layers are caused by seasonal changes in the source, transport, and deposition of aerosols. The measurements were interpreted manually and with the aid of two automated methods. We validated the chronology by comparing to two high-accuracy, absolutely dated chronologies. For the Holocene, the cosmogenic isotope records of 10Be from WAIS Divide and 14C for IntCal13 demonstrated that WD2014 was consistently accurate to better than 0.5% of the age. For the glacial period, comparisons to the Hulu Cave chronology demonstrated that WD2014 had an accuracy of better than 1% of the age at three abrupt climate change events between 27 and 31ka. WD2014 has consistently younger ages than Greenland ice core chronologies during most of the Holocene. For the Younger Dryas-Preboreal transition (11.595 ka; 24 years younger) and the Bolling-Allerod Warming (14.621 ka; 7 years younger), WD2014 ages are within the combined uncertainties of the timescales. Given its high accuracy, WD2014 can become a reference chronology for the Southern Hemisphere, with synchronization to other chronologies feasible using high-quality proxies of volcanism, solar activity, atmospheric mineral dust, and atmospheric methane concentrations.", "east": -112.1115, "geometry": ["POINT(-112.1115 -79.481)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Depth-Age-Model; Geochronology; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; WAIS Divide; WAIS Divide Ice Core", "locations": "WAIS Divide; Antarctica", "north": -79.481, "nsf_funding_programs": null, "persons": "Fudge, T. J.", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Establishing the Chronology and Histories of Accumulation and Ice Dynamics for the WAIS Divide Core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000026", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Establishing the Chronology and Histories of Accumulation and Ice Dynamics for the WAIS Divide Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -79.481, "title": "WD2014: Timescale for WAIS Divide Core 2006 A (WDC-06A)", "uid": "601015", "west": -112.1115}, {"awards": "0538049 Steig, Eric", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-112.085 -79.5)"], "date_created": "Thu, 09 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set contain oxygen isotopes of sulfate and nitrate and nitrogen isotopes of nitrate from the WAIS Divide ice core from the surface to 577 m depth at varying resolution", "east": -112.085, "geometry": ["POINT(-112.085 -79.5)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Chemistry:ice; Chemistry:Ice; Geochemistry; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Nitrate; Oxygen Isotope; Sulfate; WAIS Divide; WAIS Divide Ice Core", "locations": "WAIS Divide; Antarctica", "north": -79.5, "nsf_funding_programs": null, "persons": "Alexander, Becky; Steig, Eric J.", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Multiple-isotope Analysis of Nitrate and Sulfate in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000020", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Multiple-isotope Analysis of Nitrate and Sulfate in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -79.5, "title": "WAIS Divide sulfate and nitrate isotopes", "uid": "601007", "west": -112.085}, {"awards": "0839075 Priscu, John", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-112.08648 -79.46763)"], "date_created": "Mon, 06 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set include depth (WDC06A-7 dating) and fluorescence intensity measurements for five fluorophore regions (A, C, M, B, and T) commonly found in natural organic matter. Data from 1300-1700m, 1700-2100m, and 2100-2700m correspond to the early Holocene, deglaciation period, and the Last Glacial Maximum.", "east": -112.08648, "geometry": ["POINT(-112.08648 -79.46763)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Fluorescence Spectroscopy; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Physical Properties; WAIS Divide; WAIS Divide Ice Core", "locations": "WAIS Divide; Antarctica", "north": -79.46763, "nsf_funding_programs": null, "persons": "Priscu, John; D\u0027Andrilli, Juliana", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Integrated High Resolution Chemical and Biological Measurements on the Deep WAIS Divide Core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000273", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Integrated High Resolution Chemical and Biological Measurements on the Deep WAIS Divide Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -79.46763, "title": "Fluorescence spectroscopy data from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide ice core, WDC06A", "uid": "601006", "west": -112.08648}, {"awards": "0539232 Cuffey, Kurt", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-112.083 -79.467)"], "date_created": "Thu, 12 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This dataset contains the temperature reconstruction at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide reported by Cuffey et al. (2016) in PNAS. Five files contain 1) the primary reconstruction (Eq. 2 of that publication), combining information from borehole temperatures, deuterium isotopic content of ice, and nitrogen-15 content of trapped diatomic nitrogen gas; 2) the primary reconstruction with higher-frequency content restored; 3) the lower limit of the primary reconstruction; 4) the upper limit of the primary reconstruction; and 5) and the primary reconstruction with added perturbations.", "east": -112.083, "geometry": ["POINT(-112.083 -79.467)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Chemistry:fluid; Chemistry:Fluid; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Nitrogen; Paleoclimate; Temperature; WAIS Divide; WAIS Divide Ice Core", "locations": "WAIS Divide; Antarctica", "north": -79.467, "nsf_funding_programs": null, "persons": "Cuffey, Kurt M.", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Physical Properties of the WAIS Divide Deep Core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000038", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Physical Properties of the WAIS Divide Deep Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -79.467, "title": "Temperature Reconstruction at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide", "uid": "600377", "west": -112.083}, {"awards": "0839059 Powell, Ross", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-168.7 -82.3,-168.69 -82.3,-168.68 -82.3,-168.67 -82.3,-168.66 -82.3,-168.65 -82.3,-168.64 -82.3,-168.63 -82.3,-168.62 -82.3,-168.61 -82.3,-168.6 -82.3,-168.6 -82.31,-168.6 -82.32,-168.6 -82.33,-168.6 -82.34,-168.6 -82.35,-168.6 -82.36,-168.6 -82.37,-168.6 -82.38,-168.6 -82.39,-168.6 -82.4,-168.61 -82.4,-168.62 -82.4,-168.63 -82.4,-168.64 -82.4,-168.65 -82.4,-168.66 -82.4,-168.67 -82.4,-168.68 -82.4,-168.69 -82.4,-168.7 -82.4,-168.7 -82.39,-168.7 -82.38,-168.7 -82.37,-168.7 -82.36,-168.7 -82.35,-168.7 -82.34,-168.7 -82.33,-168.7 -82.32,-168.7 -82.31,-168.7 -82.3))"], "date_created": "Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "The LISSARD project (Lake and Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling) is one of three research components of the WISSARD integrative initiative (Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling) that is being funded by the Antarctic Integrated System Science Program of NSF\u0027s Office of Polar Programs, Antarctic Division. The overarching scientific objective of WISSARD is to assess the role of water beneath a West Antarctic ice stream in interlinked glaciological, geological, microbiological, geochemical, and oceanographic systems. The LISSARD component of WISSARD focuses on the role of active subglacial lakes in determining how fast the West Antarctic ice sheet loses mass to the global ocean and influences global sea level changes. The importance of Antarctic subglacial lakes has only been recently recognized, and the lakes have been identified as high priority targets for scientific investigations because of their unknown contributions to ice sheet stability under future global warming scenarios. LISSARD has several primary science goals: A) To provide an observational basis for improving treatments of subglacial hydrological and mechanical processes in models of ice sheet mass balance and stability; B) To reconstruct the past history of ice stream stability by analyzing archives of past basal water and ice flow variability contained in subglacial sediments, porewater, lake water, and basal accreted ice; C) To provide background understanding of subglacial lake environments to benefit RAGES and GBASE (the other two components of the WISSARD project); and D) To synthesize data and concepts developed as part of this project to determine whether subglacial lakes play an important role in (de)stabilizing Antarctic ice sheets. We propose an unprecedented synthesis of approaches to studying ice sheet processes, including: (1) satellite remote sensing, (2) surface geophysics, (3) borehole observations and measurements and, (4) basal and subglacial sampling.\nThe latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recognized that the greatest uncertainties in assessing future global sea-level change stem from a poor understanding of ice sheet dynamics and ice sheet vulnerability to oceanic and atmospheric warming. Disintegration of the WAIS (West Antarctic Ice Sheet) alone would contribute 3-5 m to global sea-level rise, making WAIS a focus of scientific concern due to its potential susceptibility to internal or ocean-driven instability. The overall WISSARD project will test the overarching hypothesis that active water drainage connects various subglacial environments and exerts major control on ice sheet flow, geochemistry, metabolic and phylogenetic diversity, and biogeochemical transformations.\nSocietal Relevance: Global warming, melting of ice sheets and consequential sea-level rise are of high societal relevance. Science Resource Development: After a 9-year hiatus WISSARD will provide the US-science community with a renewed capability to access and study sub-ice sheet environments. Developing this technological infrastructure will benefit the broader science community and assets will be accessible for future use through the NSF-OPP drilling contractor. Furthermore, these projects will pioneer an approach implementing recommendations from the National Research Council committee on Principles of Environmental Stewardship for the Exploration and Study of Subglacial Environments (2007). Education and Outreach (E/O): These activities are grouped into four categories: i) increasing student participation in polar research by fully integrating them in our research programs; ii) introducing new investigators to the polar sciences by incorporating promising young investigators in our programs, iii) promotion of K-12 teaching and learning programs by incorporating various teachers and NSTA programs, and iv) reaching a larger public audience through such venues as popular science magazines, museum based activities and videography and documentary films. In summary, WISSARD will promote scientific exploration of Antarctica by conveying to the public the excitement of accessing and studying what may be some of the last unexplored aquatic environments on Earth, and which represent a potential analogue for extraterrestrial life habitats on Europa and Mars.", "east": -168.6, "geometry": ["POINT(-168.65 -82.35)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Biota; Diatom; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Lake Whillans; Paleoclimate; Ross Sea; Southern Ocean; Subglacial Lake; WISSARD", "locations": "Lake Whillans; Ross Sea; Southern Ocean; Antarctica", "north": -82.3, "nsf_funding_programs": null, "persons": "Powell, Ross", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Integrative Study of Marine Ice Sheet Stability \u0026 Subglacial Life Habitats in W Antarctica - Lake \u0026 Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (LISSARD)", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000105", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Integrative Study of Marine Ice Sheet Stability \u0026 Subglacial Life Habitats in W Antarctica - Lake \u0026 Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (LISSARD)"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -82.4, "title": "Integrative Study of Marine Ice Sheet Stability and Subglacial Life Habitats in W Antarctica - Lake and Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (LISSARD)", "uid": "600154", "west": -168.7}, {"awards": "1043167 White, James", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-112.08 -79.47)"], "date_created": "Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This award supports a project to contribute one of the cornerstone analyses, stable isotopes of ice (Delta-D, Delta-O18) to the ongoing West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS) deep ice core. The WAIS Divide drilling project, a multi-institution project to obtain a continuous high resolution ice core record from central West Antarctica, reached a depth of 2560 m in early 2010; it is expected to take one or two more field seasons to reach the ice sheet bed (~3300 m), plus an additional four seasons for borehole logging and other activities including proposed replicate coring. The current proposal requests support to complete analyses on the WAIS Divide core to the base, where the age will be ~100,000 years or more. These analyses will form the basis for the investigation of a number of outstanding questions in climate and glaciology during the last glacial period, focused on the dynamics of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the relationship of West Antarctic climate to that of the Northern polar regions, the tropical Pacific, and the rest of the globe, on time scales ranging from years to tens of thousands of years. One new aspect of this work is the growing expertise at the University of Washington in climate modeling with isotope-tracer-enabled general circulation models, which will aid in the interpretation of the data. Another major new aspect is the completion and use of a high-resolution, semi-automated sampling system at the University of Colorado, which will permit the continuous analysis of isotope ratios via laser spectroscopy, at an effective resolution of ~2 cm or less, providing inter-annual time resolution for most of the core. Because continuous flow analyses of stable ice isotopes is a relatively new measurement, we will complement them with parallel measurements, every ~10-20 m, using traditional discrete sampling and analysis by mass spectrometry at the University of Washington. The intellectual merit and the overarching goal of the work are to see Inland WAIS become the reference ice isotope record for West Antarctica. The broader impacts of the work are that the data generated in this project pertain directly to policy-relevant and immediate questions of the stability of the West Antarctic ice sheet, and thus past and future changes in sea level, as well as the nature of climate change in the high southern latitudes. The project will also contribute to the development of modern isotope analysis techniques using laser spectroscopy, with applications well beyond ice cores. The project will involve a graduate student and postdoc who will work with both P.I.s, and spend time at both institutions. Data will be made available rapidly through the Antarctic Glaciological Data Center, for use by other researchers and the public.", "east": -112.08, "geometry": ["POINT(-112.08 -79.47)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Geochemistry; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Isotope; Paleoclimate; Snow Accumulation; WAIS Divide; WAIS Divide Ice Core", "locations": "WAIS Divide; Antarctica", "north": -79.47, "nsf_funding_programs": null, "persons": "White, James; Morris, Valerie; Vaughn, Bruce; Jones, Tyler R.", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Stable Isotopes of Ice in the Transition and Glacial Sections of the WAIS Divide Deep Ice Core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000078", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Stable Isotopes of Ice in the Transition and Glacial Sections of the WAIS Divide Deep Ice Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -79.47, "title": "Stable Isotopes of Ice in the Transition and Glacial Sections of the WAIS Divide Deep Ice Core", "uid": "600169", "west": -112.08}, {"awards": "1142162 Stone, John", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-104.14 -81.07,-102.24 -81.07,-100.34 -81.07,-98.44 -81.07,-96.54 -81.07,-94.64 -81.07,-92.74 -81.07,-90.84 -81.07,-88.94 -81.07,-87.04 -81.07,-85.14 -81.07,-85.14 -81.207,-85.14 -81.344,-85.14 -81.481,-85.14 -81.618,-85.14 -81.755,-85.14 -81.892,-85.14 -82.029,-85.14 -82.166,-85.14 -82.303,-85.14 -82.44,-87.04 -82.44,-88.94 -82.44,-90.84 -82.44,-92.74 -82.44,-94.64 -82.44,-96.54 -82.44,-98.44 -82.44,-100.34 -82.44,-102.24 -82.44,-104.14 -82.44,-104.14 -82.303,-104.14 -82.166,-104.14 -82.029,-104.14 -81.892,-104.14 -81.755,-104.14 -81.618,-104.14 -81.481,-104.14 -81.344,-104.14 -81.207,-104.14 -81.07))"], "date_created": "Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This award supports a reconnaissance geological and radar-sounding study of promising sites in West Antarctica for a future project to measure cosmogenic nuclides in subglacial bedrock. Field work will take place in the Whitmore Mountains, close to the WAIS divide, and on the Nash and Pirrit Hills, downflow from the divide in the Weddell Sea drainage. At each site geological indicators of higher (and lower) ice levels in the past will be mapped and evidence of subglacial erosion or its absence will be documented. Elevation transects of both glacial erratics and adjacent bedrock samples will be collected to establish the timing of recent deglaciation at the sites and provide a complement to similar measurements on material from depth transects obtained by future subglacial drilling. At each site, bedrock ridges will be traced into the subsurface with closely-spaced ice-penetrating radar surveys, using a combination of instruments and frequencies to obtain the highest possible surface detail. Collectively the results will define prospective sites for subglacial sampling, and maximize the potential information to be obtained from such samples in future studies. The intellectual merit of this project is that measurements of cosmogenic nuclides in subglacial bedrock hold promise for resolving the questions of whether the West Antarctic ice sheet collapsed completely in the past, whether it is prone to repeated large deglaciations, and if so, what is their magnitude and frequency. Such studies will require careful choice of targets, to locate sites where bedrock geology is favorable, cosmogenic nuclide records are likely to have been protected from subglacial erosion, and the local ice-surface response is indicative of large-scale ice sheet behavior. The broader impacts of this work include helping to determine whether subglacial surfaces in West Antarctica were ever exposed to cosmic rays, which will provide unambiguous evidence for or against a smaller ice sheet in the past. This is an important step towards establishing whether the WAIS is vulnerable to collapse in future, and will ultimately help to address uncertainty in forecasting sea level change. The results will also provide ground truth for models of ice-sheet dynamics and long-term ice sheet evolution, and will help researchers use these models to identify paleoclimate conditions responsible for WAIS deglaciation. The education and training of students (both undergraduate and graduate students) will play an important role in the project, which will involve Antarctic fieldwork, technically challenging labwork, data collection and interpretation, and communication of the outcome to scientists and the general public.", "east": -85.14, "geometry": ["POINT(-94.64 -81.755)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Be-10; Chemistry:rock; Chemistry:Rock; Cosmogenic Dating; Glaciology; Nunataks; Sample/collection Description; Sample/Collection Description; Solid Earth; Whitmore Mountains", "locations": "Whitmore Mountains; Antarctica", "north": -81.07, "nsf_funding_programs": null, "persons": "Stone, John", "project_titles": "Glacial-interglacial History of West Antarctic Nunataks and Site Reconnaissance for Subglacial Bedrock Sampling", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000335", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Glacial-interglacial History of West Antarctic Nunataks and Site Reconnaissance for Subglacial Bedrock Sampling"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -82.44, "title": "Glacial-interglacial History of West Antarctic Nunataks and Site Reconnaissance for Subglacial Bedrock Sampling", "uid": "600162", "west": -104.14}, {"awards": "0839107 Powell, Ross", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-163.7 -84,-163.68 -84,-163.66 -84,-163.64 -84,-163.62 -84,-163.6 -84,-163.58 -84,-163.56 -84,-163.54 -84,-163.52 -84,-163.5 -84,-163.5 -84.05,-163.5 -84.1,-163.5 -84.15,-163.5 -84.2,-163.5 -84.25,-163.5 -84.3,-163.5 -84.35,-163.5 -84.4,-163.5 -84.45,-163.5 -84.5,-163.52 -84.5,-163.54 -84.5,-163.56 -84.5,-163.58 -84.5,-163.6 -84.5,-163.62 -84.5,-163.64 -84.5,-163.66 -84.5,-163.68 -84.5,-163.7 -84.5,-163.7 -84.45,-163.7 -84.4,-163.7 -84.35,-163.7 -84.3,-163.7 -84.25,-163.7 -84.2,-163.7 -84.15,-163.7 -84.1,-163.7 -84.05,-163.7 -84))"], "date_created": "Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "The RAGES project (Robotic Access to Grounding zones for Exploration and Science) is one of three research components of the WISSARD (Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling) integrative initiative that is being funded by the Antarctic Integrated System Science Program of NSF\u0027s Office of Polar Programs, Antarctic Division. The overarching scientific objective of WISSARD is to assess the role of water beneath a West Antarctic ice stream in interlinked glaciological, geological, microbiological, geochemical, and oceanographic systems. The RAGES component of WISSARD concentrates on the stability of ice stream grounding zones (GZ), the area where the ice, ocean waters and glacial and sea floor sediment interact. Based on our present limited data and modeling efforts, GZs can be perturbed by (i) internal ice stream dynamics, (ii) filling/draining cycles of subglacial lakes, (iii) increased melting by warming ocean waters, and/or (iv) rates of subglacial sediment (till) supply to the GZ. GZs are seen as high priority targets to investigate due to their unknown contributions to ice sheet stability under future global warming scenarios. The three main science goals for RAGES are to assess: (a) West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) stability relative to the magnitudes of the four main variables listed above; (b) the degree to which grounding-zone sedimentary systems house important records of past WAIS dynamics; and (c) the importance of microbial activity and subglacial geochemical weathering in supplying nutrients to the WAIS grounding zone, the Ross Ice Shelf (RIS) cavity, and the highly productive Southern Ocean that may ultimately influence global biogeochemical cycles. The RAGES field sampling plan integrates surface geophysical surveys with borehole and subglacial sampling and measurements. The boreholes provide: (1) samples of subglacial water, sediments, and basal ice for biological, geochemical, glaciological, sedimentological, and micropaleontological analyses; (2) measures of subglacial and sub-ice-shelf cavity physical and chemical conditions and their spatial variability; and (3) data on sediment types, state and change of the subglacial water discharge, oceanography, and basal ice at the grounding line and within the nearby sub-ice-shelf cavity. Unique tools to be deployed include a multisensor Sub-Ice ROVer (Remotely Operated Vehicle) and long-term, sub-ice oceanographic moorings.\nThe latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recognized that the greatest uncertainties in assessing future global sea-level change stem from a poor understanding of ice sheet dynamics and ice sheet vulnerability to oceanic and atmospheric warming. Disintegration of the WAIS (West Antarctic Ice Sheet) alone would contribute 3-5 m to global sea-level rise, making WAIS a focus of scientific concern due to its potential susceptibility to internal or ocean-driven instability. The overall WISSARD project will test the overarching hypothesis that active water drainage connects various subglacial environments and exerts major control on ice sheet flow, geochemistry, metabolic and phylogenetic diversity, and biogeochemical transformations.\nSocietal Relevance: Global warming, melting of ice sheets and consequential sea-level rise are of high societal relevance. Science Resource Development: After a 9-year hiatus WISSARD will provide the US-science community with a renewed capability to access and study sub-ice sheet environments. Developing this technological infrastructure will benefit the broader science community and assets will be accessible for future use through the NSF-OPP drilling contractor. The RAGES project represents a significant advance in polar technology by incorporating the use of complex new instrumentation like the Sub-Ice ROVer and subglacial ocean/lake mooring systems. Furthermore, these projects will pioneer an approach implementing recommendations from the National Research Council committee on Principles of Environmental Stewardship for the Exploration and Study of Subglacial Environments (2007). Education and Outreach (E/O): These activities are grouped into four categories: i) increasing student participation in polar research by fully integrating them in our research programs; ii) introducing new investigators to the polar sciences by incorporating promising young investigators in our programs, iii) promotion of K-12 teaching and learning programs by incorporating various teachers and NSTA programs, and iv) reaching a larger public audience through such venues as popular science magazines, museum based activities and videography and documentary films. In summary, WISSARD will promote scientific exploration of Antarctica by conveying to the public the excitement of accessing and studying what may be some of the last unexplored aquatic environments on Earth, and which represent a potential analogue for extraterrestrial life habitats on Europa and Mars.", "east": -163.5, "geometry": ["POINT(-163.6 -84.25)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Glaciology; Oceans; Southern Ocean; WISSARD", "locations": "Southern Ocean; Antarctica", "north": -84.0, "nsf_funding_programs": null, "persons": "Powell, Ross", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Integrative Study of Marine Ice Sheet Stability \u0026 Subglacial Life Habitats in W Antarctica - Lake \u0026 Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (LISSARD)", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000105", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Integrative Study of Marine Ice Sheet Stability \u0026 Subglacial Life Habitats in W Antarctica - Lake \u0026 Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (LISSARD)"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -84.5, "title": "Integrative Study of Marine Ice Sheet Stability and Subglacial Life Habitats - Robotic Access to Grounding-zones for Exploration and Science (RAGES)", "uid": "600155", "west": -163.7}, {"awards": "1043018 Pollard, David", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-85 -82)"], "date_created": "Thu, 03 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "Ice-sheet model output of Antarctic Ice Sheet simulations spanning 30,000 years BP to 5000+ years in the future.", "east": -85.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-85 -82)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Sheet Model", "locations": "Antarctica", "north": -82.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Pollard, David", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: A New Reconstruction of the Last West Antarctic Ice Sheet Deglaciation in the Ross Sea", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000194", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: A New Reconstruction of the Last West Antarctic Ice Sheet Deglaciation in the Ross Sea"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -82.0, "title": "Ice Sheet Model Output, West Antarctic Ice Sheet Deglaciation", "uid": "609639", "west": -85.0}, {"awards": "1043780 Aydin, Murat", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-112.1 -79.5)"], "date_created": "Tue, 27 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "These data contain the results of gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis of 207 samples from the WAIS Divide 06A ice core. The trace gases found in the 207 samples are ethane (C2H6), propane (C3H8), n-butane (n-C4H10), carbonyl sulfide (COS), carbon disulfide (CS2), methyl chloride (CH3Cl), and methyl bromide (CH3Br).\u00a0", "east": -112.1, "geometry": ["POINT(-112.1 -79.5)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Chemistry:ice; Chemistry:Ice; Geochemistry; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; WAIS Divide; WAIS Divide Ice Core", "locations": "WAIS Divide; Antarctica", "north": -79.5, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Aydin, Murat; Saltzman, Eric", "project_titles": "Carbonyl Sulfide Measurements in the Deep West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000055", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Carbonyl Sulfide Measurements in the Deep West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -79.5, "title": "Ultra-trace Measurements in the WAIS Divide 06A Ice Core", "uid": "609659", "west": -112.1}, {"awards": "0944552 Brook, Edward; 1043518 Brook, Edward; 1142041 Brook, Edward; 0839093 McConnell, Joseph; 1142166 McConnell, Joseph", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-112.05 -79.28)"], "date_created": "Thu, 23 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set contains methane concentrations from a West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide ice core obtained by an online, continuous technique (Stowasser, et al. 2012). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c/br\u003e IMPORTANT NOTE: The experiment-time-integrated data are made available as a comprehensive archive of WAIS-Divide methane measurements. In the vast majority of cases the 2-yearly spline fit will be the most suitable for your application (Rhodes_Science_2015_WD_CH4_noaa-wdc-paleo (8).xlsx or Rhodes_Science_2015_WD_CH4_noaa-wdc-paleo.txt). \u003cbr\u003e \u003c/br\u003e For more detailed information on the 2 yearly cubic smoothing spline please refer to references listed, in particular, the Supplementary Material of Rhodes et al. (2015).", "east": -112.05, "geometry": ["POINT(-112.05 -79.28)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Chemistry:fluid; Chemistry:Fluid; Geochemistry; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Methane; Paleoclimate; WAIS Divide; WAIS Divide Ice Core", "locations": "WAIS Divide; Antarctica", "north": -79.28, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "McConnell, Joseph; Brook, Edward J.; Rhodes, Rachel", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Completing an ultra-high resolution methane record from the WAIS Divide ice core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000185", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Completing an ultra-high resolution methane record from the WAIS Divide ice core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -79.28, "title": "Continuous, Ultra-high Resolution WAIS-Divide Ice Core Methane Record 9.8-67.2 ka BP", "uid": "609628", "west": -112.05}, {"awards": "0538657 Severinghaus, Jeffrey", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-112.125 -79.463)"], "date_created": "Mon, 08 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set includes borehole temperature measurements performed in January 2008 and January 2009 at the West Antarctic Ice sheet divide from the 300 m hole WDC05A.", "east": -112.125, "geometry": ["POINT(-112.125 -79.463)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; 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Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Physical Properties; WAIS Divide; WAIS Divide Ice Core", "locations": "WAIS Divide; Antarctica", "north": -79.467, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Voigt, Donald E.; Alley, Richard; Fitzpatrick, Joan", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Continued Study of Physical Properties of the WAIS Divide Deep Core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000027", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Continued Study of Physical Properties of the WAIS Divide Deep Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -79.467, "title": "C-axis Fabric from Physical Properties Samples of the WAIS Divide Ice Core", "uid": "609605", "west": -112.085}, {"awards": "0944653 Forster, Richard", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-119.4 -78.1,-118.46 -78.1,-117.52 -78.1,-116.58 -78.1,-115.64 -78.1,-114.7 -78.1,-113.76 -78.1,-112.82 -78.1,-111.88 -78.1,-110.94 -78.1,-110 -78.1,-110 -78.29,-110 -78.48,-110 -78.67,-110 -78.86,-110 -79.05,-110 -79.24,-110 -79.43,-110 -79.62,-110 -79.81,-110 -80,-110.94 -80,-111.88 -80,-112.82 -80,-113.76 -80,-114.7 -80,-115.64 -80,-116.58 -80,-117.52 -80,-118.46 -80,-119.4 -80,-119.4 -79.81,-119.4 -79.62,-119.4 -79.43,-119.4 -79.24,-119.4 -79.05,-119.4 -78.86,-119.4 -78.67,-119.4 -78.48,-119.4 -78.29,-119.4 -78.1))"], "date_created": "Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This award supports a project to broaden the knowledge of annual accumulation patterns over the West Antarctic Ice Sheet by processing existing near-surface radar data taken on the US ITASE traverse in 2000 and by gathering and validating new ultra/super-high-frequency (UHF) radar images of near surface layers (to depths of ~15 m), expanding abilities to monitor recent annual accumulation patterns from point source ice cores to radar lines. Shallow (15 m) ice cores will be collected in conjunction with UHF radar images to confirm that radar echoed returns correspond with annual layers, and/or sub-annual density changes in the near-surface snow, as determined from ice core stable isotopes. This project will additionally improve accumulation monitoring from space-borne instruments by comparing the spatial-radar-derived-annual accumulation time series to the passive microwave time series dating back over 3 decades and covering most of Antarctica. The intellectual merit of this project is that mapping the spatial and temporal variations in accumulation rates over the Antarctic ice sheet is essential for understanding ice sheet responses to climate forcing. Antarctic precipitation rate is projected to increase up to 20% in the coming century from the predicted warming. Accumulation is a key component for determining ice sheet mass balance and, hence, sea level rise, yet our ability to measure annual accumulation variability over the past 5 decades (satellite era) is mostly limited to point-source ice cores. Developing a radar and ice core derived annual accumulation dataset will provide validation data for space-born remote sensing algorithms, climate models and, additionally, establish accumulation trends. The broader impacts of the project are that it will advance discovery and understanding within the climatology, glaciology and remote sensing communities by verifying the use of UHF radars to monitor annual layers as determined by visual, chemical and isotopic analysis from corresponding shallow ice cores and will provide a dataset of annual to near-annual accumulation measurements over the past ~5 decades across WAIS divide from existing radar data and proposed radar data. By determining if temporal changes in the passive microwave signal are correlated with temporal changes in accumulation will help assess the utility of passive microwave remote sensing to monitor accumulation rates over ice sheets for future decades. The project will promote teaching, training and learning, and increase representation of underrepresented groups by becoming involved in the NASA History of Winter project and Thermochron Mission and by providing K-12 teachers with training to monitor snow accumulation and temperature here in the US, linking polar research to the student\u0027s backyard. The project will train both undergraduate and graduate students in polar research and will encouraging young investigators to become involved in careers in science. In particular, two REU students will participate in original research projects as part of this larger project, from development of a hypothesis to presentation and publication of the results. The support of a new, young woman scientist will help to increase gender diversity in polar research.\n", "east": -110.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-114.7 -79.05)"], "keywords": "Airborne Radar; Antarctica; Geology/Geophysics - Other; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Radar; WAIS Divide; WAIS Divide Ice Core", "locations": "WAIS Divide; Antarctica", "north": -78.1, "nsf_funding_programs": null, "persons": "Forster, Richard", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Annual satellite era accumulation patterns over WAIS Divide: A study using shallow ice cores, near-surface radars and satellites", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000079", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Annual satellite era accumulation patterns over WAIS Divide: A study using shallow ice cores, near-surface radars and satellites"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -80.0, "title": "Annual Satellite Era Accumulation Patterns Over WAIS Divide: A Study Using Shallow Ice Cores, Near-Surface Radars and Satellites", "uid": "600146", "west": -119.4}, {"awards": "1043485 Curtice, Josh", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((163.4 -77.47989,163.9848 -77.47989,164.5696 -77.47989,165.1544 -77.47989,165.7392 -77.47989,166.324 -77.47989,166.9088 -77.47989,167.4936 -77.47989,168.0784 -77.47989,168.6632 -77.47989,169.248 -77.47989,169.248 -77.565701,169.248 -77.651512,169.248 -77.737323,169.248 -77.823134,169.248 -77.908945,169.248 -77.994756,169.248 -78.080567,169.248 -78.166378,169.248 -78.252189,169.248 -78.338,168.6632 -78.338,168.0784 -78.338,167.4936 -78.338,166.9088 -78.338,166.324 -78.338,165.7392 -78.338,165.1544 -78.338,164.5696 -78.338,163.9848 -78.338,163.4 -78.338,163.4 -78.252189,163.4 -78.166378,163.4 -78.080567,163.4 -77.994756,163.4 -77.908945,163.4 -77.823134,163.4 -77.737323,163.4 -77.651512,163.4 -77.565701,163.4 -77.47989))"], "date_created": "Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This award supports a project to develop a better understanding of the response of the WAIS to climate change. The timing of the last deglaciation of the western Ross Sea will be improved using in situ terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides (3He, 10Be, 14C, 26Al, 36Cl) to date glacial erratics at key areas and elevations along the western Ross Sea coast. A state-of-the art ice sheet-shelf model will be used to identify mechanisms of deglaciation of the Ross Sea sector of WAIS. The model results and forcing will be compared with observations including the new cosmogenic data proposed here, with the aim of better determining and understanding the history and causes of WAIS deglaciation in the Ross Sea. There is considerable uncertainty, however, in the history of grounding line retreat from its last glacial maximum position, and virtually nothing is known about the timing of ice- surface lowering prior to ~10,000 years ago. Given these uncertainties, we are currently unable to assess one of the most important questions regarding the last deglaciation of the global ice sheets, namely as to whether the Ross Sea sector of WAIS contributed significantly to meltwater pulse 1A (MWP-1A), an extraordinarily rapid (~500-year duration) episode of ~20 m sea-level rise that occurred ~14,500 years ago. The intellectual merit of this project is that recent observations of startling changes at the margins of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets indicate that dynamic responses to warming may play a much greater role in the future mass balance of ice sheets than considered in current numerical projections of sea level rise. The broader impacts of this work are that it has direct societal relevance to developing an improved understanding of the response of the West Antarctic ice sheet to current and possible future environmental changes including the sea-level response to glacier and ice sheet melting due to global warming. The PI will communicate results from this project to a variety of audiences through the publication of peer-reviewed papers and by giving talks to public audiences. Finally the project will support a graduate student and undergraduate students in all phases of field-work, laboratory work and data interpretation.\n", "east": 169.248, "geometry": ["POINT(166.324 -77.908945)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Cosmogenic Dating; Ross Sea; Sample/collection Description; Sample/Collection Description; Southern Ocean; WAIS", "locations": "WAIS; Ross Sea; Antarctica; Southern Ocean", "north": -77.47989, "nsf_funding_programs": null, "persons": "Kurz, Mark D.; Curtice, Josh", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: A New Reconstruction of the Last West Antarctic Ice Sheet Deglaciation in the Ross Sea", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000194", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: A New Reconstruction of the Last West Antarctic Ice Sheet Deglaciation in the Ross Sea"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -78.338, "title": "A New Reconstruction of the Last West Antarctic Ice Sheet Deglaciation in the Ross Sea", "uid": "600123", "west": 163.4}, {"awards": "0539232 Cuffey, Kurt", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-112.0865 -79.4676)"], "date_created": "Wed, 30 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set reports depth versus temperatures in the fluid-filled portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS\u2013D) deep borehole (70 to 3328 meters depth). Data were acquired on December 5, 2011 and have been post-processed to convert resistance to temperature.", "east": -112.0865, "geometry": ["POINT(-112.0865 -79.4676)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Temperature; WAIS Divide; WAIS Divide Ice Core", "locations": "WAIS Divide; Antarctica", "north": -79.4676, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Cuffey, Kurt M.; Clow, Gary D.", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Physical Properties of the WAIS Divide Deep Core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000038", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Physical Properties of the WAIS Divide Deep Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -79.4676, "title": "Temperature Profile of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Deep Borehole", "uid": "609550", "west": -112.0865}, {"awards": "0538578 Brook, Edward; 0944584 Sowers, Todd; 0538538 Sowers, Todd", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-38.5 72.6)", "POINT(-112.0865 -79.4676)"], "date_created": "Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set measures methane concentrations in ancient air trapped in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide and Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP2) ice cores; presenting two, high-resolution ice core methane records of the past 2500 years, one from each pole. These measurements were used to reconstruct the methane Inter-Polar Difference (IPD) during the late Holocene. Also included are model results of methane emissions that were presented in the manuscript describing this data set.", "east": -38.5, "geometry": ["POINT(-38.5 72.6)", "POINT(-112.0865 -79.4676)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Arctic; Chemistry:fluid; Chemistry:Fluid; Geochemistry; GISP2; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Methane; Paleoclimate; WAIS Divide; WAIS Divide Ice Core", "locations": "WAIS Divide; Arctic; Antarctica", "north": 72.6, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Mitchell, Logan E", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Constructing an Ultra-high Resolution Atmospheric Methane Record for the Last 140,000 Years from WAIS Divide Core.", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000025", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Constructing an Ultra-high Resolution Atmospheric Methane Record for the Last 140,000 Years from WAIS Divide Core."}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -79.4676, "title": "Late Holocene Methane Concentrations from WAIS Divide and GISP2", "uid": "609586", "west": -112.0865}, {"awards": "1354231 Kowalewski, Douglas", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-160 -70,-156 -70,-152 -70,-148 -70,-144 -70,-140 -70,-136 -70,-132 -70,-128 -70,-124 -70,-120 -70,-120 -71.5,-120 -73,-120 -74.5,-120 -76,-120 -77.5,-120 -79,-120 -80.5,-120 -82,-120 -83.5,-120 -85,-124 -85,-128 -85,-132 -85,-136 -85,-140 -85,-144 -85,-148 -85,-152 -85,-156 -85,-160 -85,-160 -83.5,-160 -82,-160 -80.5,-160 -79,-160 -77.5,-160 -76,-160 -74.5,-160 -73,-160 -71.5,-160 -70))"], "date_created": "Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "Intellectual Merit: Neogene sediment records recovered by ANDRILL suggest multiple events of open water conditions and elevated sea surface temperatures at times when terrestrial data from the McMurdo Dry Valleys indicate hyper arid, cold, desert conditions. Interpretation of the ANDRILL data suggests the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is highly sensitive to changes in Pliocene sea surface temperatures and this conclusion has been supported by recent Global Circulation Model results for the early to mid Pliocene. The PIs propose to model paleo-ice configurations and warm orbits associated with a WAIS collapse to assess potential climate change in East Antarctica. During such episodes of polar warmth they propose to answer: What is the limit of ablation along the East Antarctic Ice Sheet?; Are relict landforms in the Dry Valleys susceptible to modification from increase in maximum summertime temperatures?; and Is there sufficient increase in minimum wintertime temperatures to sustain a tundra environment in the Dry Valleys? Integration of depositional records and model outputs have the potential to test the performance of numerical models currently under development as part of ANDRILL; reconcile inconsistencies between marine and terrestrial paleoclimate records in high Southern Latitudes; and improve understanding of Antarctic climate and ice volume sensitivity to forcing for both the East Antarctic and West Antarctic Ice Sheets. Broader impacts: Results from this study have the potential to be used widely by the research community. Outreach to local elementary schools from other funded efforts will continue and be extended to homeschooled students. A Post Doc will be supported as part of this award.\n", "east": -120.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-140 -77.5)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Atmosphere; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Model Data; Paleoclimate; Transantarctic Mountains", "locations": "Transantarctic Mountains; Antarctica", "north": -70.0, "nsf_funding_programs": null, "persons": "Kowalewski, Douglas", "project_titles": "Validating contrasting terrestrial climate-sensitive Pliocene deposits through high resolution modeling of paleo-environments in the Transantarctic Mountains", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000463", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Validating contrasting terrestrial climate-sensitive Pliocene deposits through high resolution modeling of paleo-environments in the Transantarctic Mountains"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -85.0, "title": "Validating contrasting terrestrial climate-sensitive Pliocene deposits through high resolution modeling of paleo-environments in the Transantarctic Mountains", "uid": "600140", "west": -160.0}, {"awards": "0732804 McPhee, Miles", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(166.25 -77.42)"], "date_created": "Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "The Office of Polar Programs, Antarctic Integrated and System Science Program has made this award to support an interdisciplinary study of the effects of the ocean on the stability of glacial ice in the most dynamic region the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, namely the Pine Island Glacier in the Amundsen Sea Embayment. The collaborative project builds on the knowledge gained by the highly successful West Antarctic Ice Sheet program and is being jointly sponsored with NASA. Recent observations indicate a significant ice loss, equivalent to 10% of the ongoing increase in sea-level rise, in this region. These changes are largest along the coast and propagate rapidly inland, indicating the critical impact of the ocean on ice sheet stability in the region. While a broad range of remote sensing and ground-based instrumentation is available to characterize changes of the ice surface and internal structure (deformation, ice motion, melt) and the shape of the underlying sediment and rock bed, instrumentation has yet to be successfully deployed for observing boundary layer processes of the ocean cavity which underlies the floating ice shelf and where rapid melting is apparently occurring. Innovative, mini ocean sensors that can be lowered through boreholes in the ice shelf (about 500 m thick) will be developed and deployed to automatically provide ocean profiling information over at least three years. Their data will be transmitted through a conducting cable frozen in the borehole to the surface where it will be further transmitted via satellite to a laboratory in the US. Geophysical and remote sensing methods (seismic, GPS, altimetry, stereo imaging, radar profiling) will be applied to map the geometry of the ice shelf, the shape of the sub ice-shelf cavity, the ice surface geometry and deformations within the glacial ice. To integrate the seismic, glaciological and oceanographic observations, a new 3-dimensional coupled ice-ocean model is being developed which will be the first of its kind. NASA is supporting satellite based research and the deployment of a robotic-camera system to explore the environment in the ocean cavity underlying the ice shelf and NSF is supporting all other aspects of this study. \n\nBroader impacts: This project is motivated by the potential societal impacts of rapid sea level rise and should result in critically needed improvements in characterizing and predicting the behavior of coupled ocean-ice systems. It is a contribution to the International Polar Year and was endorsed by the International Council for Science as a component of the \u0027Multidisciplinary Study of the Amundsen Sea Embayment\u0027 proposal #258 of the honeycomb of endorsed IPY activities. The research involves substantial international partnerships with the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Bristol in the UK. The investigators will partner with the previously funded \u0027Polar Palooza\u0027 education and outreach program in addition to undertaking a diverse set of outreach activities of their own. 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This data set is part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core (WAISCORES) project.\n\nData are available via FTP in Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) format.", "east": -114.216667, "geometry": ["POINT(-114.216667 -78.916667)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Chemistry:ice; Chemistry:Ice; Geochemistry; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Ice Core Records; Paleoclimate; WAIS Divide; WAIS Divide Ice Core", "locations": "WAIS Divide; Antarctica", "north": -78.916667, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Thiemens, Mark H.", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Multiple-isotope Analysis of Nitrate and Sulfate in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000020", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Multiple-isotope Analysis of Nitrate and Sulfate in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -78.916667, "title": "Multiple Isotope Analysis of Sulfate in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core", "uid": "609479", "west": -114.216667}, {"awards": "0338151 Raymond, Charles", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-112.09 -79.47)"], "date_created": "Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set contains the results of a model study of spatial variations of ice temperature and subglacial conditions using available ice-penetrating radar data around a future deep ice coring site near the Ross and Amundsen flow divide of West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The model data are based on radar data collected by the Support Office of Aerogeophysical Research (SOAR) at the University of Texas, and the University of Washington, in 2000. The data include values for attenuation estimates for individual radar profiles.\n\nData are available via FTP in MATLAB (.mat) and Portable Document (.pdf) formats.", "east": -112.09, "geometry": ["POINT(-112.09 -79.47)"], "keywords": "Airborne Radar; Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Radar; WAIS Divide", "locations": "WAIS Divide; Antarctica", "north": -79.47, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Raymond, Charles; Matsuoka, Kenichi", "project_titles": "Glaciological Characteristics of the Ross/Amundsen Sea Ice-flow Divide Deduced by a New Analysis of Ice-penetrating Radar Data", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000017", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Glaciological Characteristics of the Ross/Amundsen Sea Ice-flow Divide Deduced by a New Analysis of Ice-penetrating Radar Data"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -79.47, "title": "Englacial Layers and Attenuation Rates across the Ross and Amundsen Sea Ice-Flow Divide (WAIS Divide), West Antarctica", "uid": "609470", "west": -112.09}, {"awards": "0637004 McGwire, Kenneth; 0230149 McGwire, Kenneth; 0440817 Taylor, Kendrick", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-112.083333 -79.466667)"], "date_created": "Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set is comprised of optical images of ice core sections, acquired with a digital line-scan camera in the cold room facility at the U.S. National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL). Ice core sections are archival cuts which have rough-out rounds of ice with a single plane cut along one side. Ice sections were illuminated with fiber optic light guides connected to a 1000 watt (W) xenon light source. Original scan resolution varies from about 0.05 mm to 0.1 mm, and is documented in the metadata for each image. Images are in uncompressed Tagged Image File (.tif) form, with resolutions of 1.0 mm and 0.1 mm. Depth of image in the ice core is documented in the metadata files for each image.\n\nData are available via FTP as .tif image files. 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The data include depth, gas age, and the isotopic composition of methane (\u0026#8706;13C and \u0026#8706;D of CH4). The ice core was collected during the 2005-2006 Antarctic field season. The CH4 isotope data was generated in 2008 using wet extraction methodology. Samples span the last 1,000 years, at a resolution of about 15 years. Data for samples above 69 meters were from firn air, and data below 69 meters from ice. The dating of the ice was based on continuous chemical analyses above 69 meters and Electrical Conductivity/Dielectric Property (ECM/DEP) measurements from ice. Dating uncertainty is estimated to be better than five years.\n\nData are available via FTP in Microsoft Excel (.xls) tab delimited format", "east": 112.09, "geometry": ["POINT(112.09 -79.47)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Chemistry:fluid; Chemistry:Fluid; Geochemistry; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Ice Core Records; Isotope; Methane; Paleoclimate; WAIS Divide; WAIS Divide Ice Core", "locations": "WAIS Divide; Antarctica", "north": -79.47, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Sowers, Todd A.", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Gases in Firn Air and Shallow Ice at the Proposed WAIS Divide Drilling Site", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000368", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Gases in Firn Air and Shallow Ice at the Proposed WAIS Divide Drilling Site"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -79.47, "title": "Methane Isotopes from the WAIS Divide Ice Core", "uid": "609435", "west": 112.09}, {"awards": "0440602 Saltzman, Eric", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(112.09 -79.47)"], "date_created": "Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set contains trace gas measurements of air extracted from ice core samples from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide A core (WAIS-D 05A). The WAIS A core was dry-drilled at the WAIS site during the 2005-2006 Antarctic field season. Data include trace gas species including ethane (C2H6), propane (C3H8), n-butane (n-C4H10), carbonyl sulfide (COS), carbon disulfide (CS2), methyl chloride (CH3Cl), methyl bromide (CH3Br), acetonitrile (CH3CN), and chlorofluorocarbon-12 (CFC-12), for 57 ice core samples. The data are available via FTP in Microsoft Excel (.xls) file format.", "east": 112.09, "geometry": ["POINT(112.09 -79.47)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Atmosphere; Chemistry:fluid; Chemistry:Fluid; Geochemistry; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Ice Core Records; Paleoclimate; Snow/ice; Snow/Ice; WAIS Divide; WAIS Divide Ice Core", "locations": "WAIS Divide; Antarctica", "north": -79.47, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Saltzman, Eric", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Gases in Firn Air and Shallow Ice at the Proposed WAIS Divide Drilling Site", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000368", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Gases in Firn Air and Shallow Ice at the Proposed WAIS Divide Drilling Site"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "WAIS Divide Ice Core", "south": -79.47, "title": "Gases in Firn Air and Shallow Ice at the WAIS Drilling Site, Antarctica", "uid": "609412", "west": 112.09}, {"awards": "9814810 Bales, Roger", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-124 -76,-120 -76,-116 -76,-112 -76,-108 -76,-104 -76,-100 -76,-96 -76,-92 -76,-88 -76,-84 -76,-84 -77.4,-84 -78.8,-84 -80.2,-84 -81.6,-84 -83,-84 -84.4,-84 -85.8,-84 -87.2,-84 -88.6,-84 -90,-88 -90,-92 -90,-96 -90,-100 -90,-104 -90,-108 -90,-112 -90,-116 -90,-120 -90,-124 -90,-124 -88.6,-124 -87.2,-124 -85.8,-124 -84.4,-124 -83,-124 -81.6,-124 -80.2,-124 -78.8,-124 -77.4,-124 -76))"], "date_created": "Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set contains atmospheric mixing ratios of hydrogen peroxide and methylhydroperoxide at 21 sites on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) were obtained from 2000 to 2003 during the US International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (US ITASE) deployments. Sample location from the WAIS region (76-90\u00baS / 84-124\u00baW) were approximately 100-300 km apart and correspond to US ITASE ice core sites. At each site, ambient air from 1 m above the snow surface was sampled between two to five days. Atmospheric hydroperoxides (ROOH) were continuously scrubbed from the sample air with a glass coil scrubber and subsequently quantified using a fluorescence detection method.\n\nData are available via FTP as ASCII text files (.txt).", "east": -84.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-104 -83)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Atmosphere; Chemistry:fluid; Chemistry:Fluid; Geochemistry; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; ITASE; WAIS", "locations": "WAIS; Antarctica", "north": -76.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "McConnell, Joseph; Bales, Roger; Frey, Markus", "project_titles": "Hydrogen Peroxide, Formaldehyde, and Sub-Annual Snow Accumulation in West Antarctica: Participation in West Antarctic Traverse", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000253", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Hydrogen Peroxide, Formaldehyde, and Sub-Annual Snow Accumulation in West Antarctica: Participation in West Antarctic Traverse"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -90.0, "title": "Atmospheric Mixing Ratios of Hydroperoxides above the West Antarctic Ice Sheet", "uid": "609394", "west": -124.0}, {"awards": "9814810 Bales, Roger", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-124 -76,-120 -76,-116 -76,-112 -76,-108 -76,-104 -76,-100 -76,-96 -76,-92 -76,-88 -76,-84 -76,-84 -77.4,-84 -78.8,-84 -80.2,-84 -81.6,-84 -83,-84 -84.4,-84 -85.8,-84 -87.2,-84 -88.6,-84 -90,-88 -90,-92 -90,-96 -90,-100 -90,-104 -90,-108 -90,-112 -90,-116 -90,-120 -90,-124 -90,-124 -88.6,-124 -87.2,-124 -85.8,-124 -84.4,-124 -83,-124 -81.6,-124 -80.2,-124 -78.8,-124 -77.4,-124 -76))"], "date_created": "Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set contains sub-annually resolved concentrations of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), snow, firn and ice from 23 sites on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS).", "east": -84.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-104 -83)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Chemistry:ice; Chemistry:Ice; Geochemistry; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Ice Core Records; Paleoclimate; WAIS", "locations": "WAIS; Antarctica", "north": -76.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "McConnell, Joseph; Bales, Roger; Frey, Markus", "project_titles": "Hydrogen Peroxide, Formaldehyde, and Sub-Annual Snow Accumulation in West Antarctica: Participation in West Antarctic Traverse", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000253", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Hydrogen Peroxide, Formaldehyde, and Sub-Annual Snow Accumulation in West Antarctica: Participation in West Antarctic Traverse"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -90.0, "title": "Twenty-Three Century-scale Ice Core Records of Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) from West Antarctica", "uid": "609392", "west": -124.0}, {"awards": "9615502 Harrison, William", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-148.693 -81.595)", "POINT(-148.822 -81.655)"], "date_created": "Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "At the Siple Dome area of Antarctica, much of the ice flow is vertical, which causes vertical ice deformation. To measure this phenomenon, the investigators used a method known as vertical strain rate. This project was a part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Cores (WAISCORES) project for deep ice coring in West Antarctica. WAISCORES is supported by the Office of Polar Programs (OPP), National Science Foundation (NSF).\n\nThis data set consists of a table of long-term average strain rates measured between 1999 and 2002 at Siple Dome, Antarctica. The measurements were taken in hot-water boreholes by bridge gauges. Data are available in tab-delimited ASCII text format or PDF via FTP.", "east": -148.693, "geometry": ["POINT(-148.693 -81.595)", "POINT(-148.822 -81.655)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Geodesy; Geology/Geophysics - Other; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Siple Dome; Siple Dome Ice Core; Strain; WAISCORES", "locations": "Siple Dome; Antarctica", "north": -81.595, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Harrison, William; Morack, James; Waddington, Edwin D.; Pettit, Erin; Zumberge, Mark; Elsberg, Daniel", "project_titles": "Ice Dynamics, the Flow Law, and Vertical Strain at Siple Dome", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000601", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Ice Dynamics, the Flow Law, and Vertical Strain at Siple Dome"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "Siple Dome Ice Core", "south": -81.655, "title": "Vertical Strain at Siple Dome, Antarctica, 1999-2002", "uid": "609214", "west": -148.822}, {"awards": "0338359 Saltzman, Eric", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-148.81 -81.65)"], "date_created": "Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set is part of the WAISCORES (West Antarctic Ice Sheet cores) project, research funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and designed to improve understanding of how the West Antarctic ice sheet influences climate and sea level change. WAISCORES investigators acquired and analyzed ice cores from the Siple Dome, in the Siple Coast region, West Antarctica. These data provide researchers with a record of natural climatic variability and anthropogenic influence on biogeochemical cycles. Because ice cores contain an archive of preindustrial air, a baseline can be established, and the extent of human impact on the climate can be ascertained. \n\nThis data set includes mixing ratios of carbonyl sulfide (COS), methyl chloride (CH3Cl), and methyl bromide (CH3Br). Data samples were retrieved from the Siple C ice core, which was drilled at 81.65\u00b0 S, 148.81\u00b0 W in December 1995. The core site sits 620 m above sea level near the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf where there is a mean annual temperature of -25.4 \u00b0C.\n\nData are available via FTP.", "east": -148.81, "geometry": ["POINT(-148.81 -81.65)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Chemistry:ice; Chemistry:Ice; Geochemistry; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Paleoclimate; Siple Dome; Siple Dome Ice Core; WAISCORES", "locations": "Siple Dome; Antarctica", "north": -81.65, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Saltzman, Eric; Aydin, Murat", "project_titles": "Methyl chloride and methyl bromide in Antarctic ice cores", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000032", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Methyl chloride and methyl bromide in Antarctic ice cores"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "Siple Dome Ice Core", "south": -81.65, "title": "Analysis of Siple Dome Ice Core: Carbonyl Sulfide (COS), Methyl Chloride (CH3Cl), and Methyl Bromide (CH3Br)", "uid": "609279", "west": -148.81}, {"awards": "0088035 Arcone, Steven", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-135 -75,-130.5 -75,-126 -75,-121.5 -75,-117 -75,-112.5 -75,-108 -75,-103.5 -75,-99 -75,-94.5 -75,-90 -75,-90 -76.5,-90 -78,-90 -79.5,-90 -81,-90 -82.5,-90 -84,-90 -85.5,-90 -87,-90 -88.5,-90 -90,-94.5 -90,-99 -90,-103.5 -90,-108 -90,-112.5 -90,-117 -90,-121.5 -90,-126 -90,-130.5 -90,-135 -90,-135 -88.5,-135 -87,-135 -85.5,-135 -84,-135 -82.5,-135 -81,-135 -79.5,-135 -78,-135 -76.5,-135 -75))"], "date_created": "Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set includes data from radar profiles that were recorded between core sites during the November-December seasons for 1999-2002. Data were collected using an ice-penetrating radar to survey the ice sheet. Ice thickness data are available for a portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. This study is part of the U.S. participation in the International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (US ITASE). Elevation data are available in Excel and Microsoft Access database format.", "east": -90.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-112.5 -82.5)"], "keywords": "Airborne Radar; Antarctica; Elevation; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; ITASE; Radar; WAIS", "locations": "WAIS; Antarctica", "north": -75.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Arcone, Steven", "project_titles": "High Resolution Radar Profiling of the Snow and Ice Stratigraphy beneath the ITASE Traverses, West Antarctic Ice Sheet", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000146", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "High Resolution Radar Profiling of the Snow and Ice Stratigraphy beneath the ITASE Traverses, West Antarctic Ice Sheet"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -90.0, "title": "US International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition 400 MHz Subsurface Radar Profiles", "uid": "609254", "west": -135.0}, {"awards": "0229573 Mayewski, Paul; 0096299 Mayewski, Paul; 0088035 Arcone, Steven; 0196441 Hamilton, Gordon", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-123.993 -77.6832,-123.6019 -77.6832,-123.2108 -77.6832,-122.8197 -77.6832,-122.4286 -77.6832,-122.0375 -77.6832,-121.6464 -77.6832,-121.2553 -77.6832,-120.8642 -77.6832,-120.4731 -77.6832,-120.082 -77.6832,-120.082 -77.7232,-120.082 -77.7632,-120.082 -77.8032,-120.082 -77.8432,-120.082 -77.8832,-120.082 -77.9232,-120.082 -77.9632,-120.082 -78.0032,-120.082 -78.0432,-120.082 -78.0832,-120.4731 -78.0832,-120.8642 -78.0832,-121.2553 -78.0832,-121.6464 -78.0832,-122.0375 -78.0832,-122.4286 -78.0832,-122.8197 -78.0832,-123.2108 -78.0832,-123.6019 -78.0832,-123.993 -78.0832,-123.993 -78.0432,-123.993 -78.0032,-123.993 -77.9632,-123.993 -77.9232,-123.993 -77.8832,-123.993 -77.8432,-123.993 -77.8032,-123.993 -77.7632,-123.993 -77.7232,-123.993 -77.6832))"], "date_created": "Wed, 06 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "Snow accumulation rates typically show high variability over short distances. This data set contains accumulation rates derived from ground-penetrating radar (GPR) used to detect isochronal layers in the firn in West Antarctica. These layers were then dated using results from ice core analyses. These data show that accumulation rates along this profile have decreased in recent decades. The radar profile extends between two ice core sites taken along one of the US-ITASE traverse routes.", "east": -120.082, "geometry": ["POINT(-122.0375 -77.8832)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; GPR; ITASE; WAIS", "locations": "WAIS; Antarctica", "north": -77.6832, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Spikes, Vandy Blue; Hamilton, Gordon S.; Mayewski, Paul A.; Arcone, Steven; Kaspari, Susan", "project_titles": "High Resolution Radar Profiling of the Snow and Ice Stratigraphy beneath the ITASE Traverses, West Antarctic Ice Sheet", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000146", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "High Resolution Radar Profiling of the Snow and Ice Stratigraphy beneath the ITASE Traverses, West Antarctic Ice Sheet"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "ITASE", "south": -78.0832, "title": "US International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (US ITASE): GPR Profiles and Accumulation Mapping", "uid": "609269", "west": -123.993}, {"awards": "8919147 Elliot, David", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-134 -80,-131 -80,-128 -80,-125 -80,-122 -80,-119 -80,-116 -80,-113 -80,-110 -80,-107 -80,-104 -80,-104 -80.4,-104 -80.8,-104 -81.2,-104 -81.6,-104 -82,-104 -82.4,-104 -82.8,-104 -83.2,-104 -83.6,-104 -84,-107 -84,-110 -84,-113 -84,-116 -84,-119 -84,-122 -84,-125 -84,-128 -84,-131 -84,-134 -84,-134 -83.6,-134 -83.2,-134 -82.8,-134 -82.4,-134 -82,-134 -81.6,-134 -81.2,-134 -80.8,-134 -80.4,-134 -80))"], "date_created": "Wed, 17 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "Ice surface elevation and ice thickness data are available for a\nportion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The investigators utilized a\nlaser altimeter and ice-penetrating radar mounted to a Twin Otter\naircraft to survey the ice sheet. Ice surface elevations and ice\nthickness data, derived from laser altimetry and radar sounding\nresults, are available in ASCII format via ftp.\n\nThese data are a result of the Corridor Aerogeophysics of the\nSoutheastern Ross Transect Zone (CASERTZ) experiments of the 1990s.\nThe CASERTZ geophysical surveys were aimed at understanding geological\ncontrols on ice streams of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, ultimately to\nhelp assess the potential for ice sheet collapse. Blankenship et\nal. (2001) used ice surface elevations and ice thicknesses (reported\nhere) to calculate driving stresses across the ice sheet and thus to identify regions of rapid basal movement by ice streams.", "east": -104.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-119 -82)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Elevation; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ross Embayment; West Antarctica", "locations": "Ross Embayment; West Antarctica; Antarctica", "north": -80.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Blankenship, Donald D.; Finn, C. A.; Morse, David L.; Peters, M. E.; Kempf, Scott D.; Hodge, S. M.; Behrendt, J. C.; Brozena, J. M.; Studinger, Michael S.; Bell, Robin", "project_titles": "Corridor Aerogeophysics of the Southeastern Ross Transect Zone (CASERTZ), Antarctica", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000056", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Corridor Aerogeophysics of the Southeastern Ross Transect Zone (CASERTZ), Antarctica"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -84.0, "title": "Ice Thickness and Surface Elevation, Southeastern Ross Embayment, West Antarctica", "uid": "609099", "west": -134.0}, {"awards": "9615333 Saltzman, Eric", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-148.8 -81.7)"], "date_created": "Tue, 09 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set is a continuous, high-resolution record of biogenic sulfur (methanesulfonate, known as MSA and CH3SO3-) in the 1000 m deep Siple Dome A (SDMA) core, covering 100,000 to 20 years BP. The analysis was done on between August 2002 and November 2003 at the University of California, Irvine. Investigators used a mass spectrometer to measure methanesulfonate. Measurements are given as MSA concentration at various depths. Estimated age of the ice at each depth is also given.\n\nThis project was a part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Cores (WAISCORES) project for deep ice coring in West Antarctica. WAISCORES is supported by the Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation (NSF).", "east": -148.8, "geometry": ["POINT(-148.8 -81.7)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Biota; Chemistry:ice; Chemistry:Ice; Geochemistry; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Paleoclimate; Siple Dome; Siple Dome Ice Core; WAISCORES", "locations": "Siple Dome; Antarctica", "north": -81.7, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Saltzman, Eric; Dioumaeva, Irina; Finley, Brandon", "project_titles": "Biogenic Sulfur in the Siple Dome Ice Core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000251", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Biogenic Sulfur in the Siple Dome Ice Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "Siple Dome Ice Core", "south": -81.7, "title": "Biogenic Sulfur in the Siple Dome Ice Core", "uid": "609201", "west": -148.8}, {"awards": "9420648 Waddington, Edwin", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "date_created": "Tue, 09 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set is part of the WAISCORES project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and analyzed ice cores from the Siple Dome, in the Siple Coast region, West Antarctica.\n\nNereson\u0027s \u0027Age Versus Depth\u0027 plot shows the results of the calculations published in her paper on predicted age-depth scales (Nereson, N.A., E.D. Waddington, C.F. Raymond, and H.P. Jacobson. 1996. Predicted Age-Depth Scales for Siple Dome and Inland WAIS Ice Cores in West Antarctica.Geophys. Res. Let., 23(22): 3163-3166.).", "east": -149.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Siple Dome; Siple Dome Ice Core; WAISCORES", "locations": "Siple Dome; Antarctica", "north": -81.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Nereson, Nadine A.", "project_titles": "Ice Modelling Study of Siple Dome: WAIS Ice Dynamics, WAISCORES Paleoclimate and Ice Stream/Ice Dome Interactions", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000058", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Ice Modelling Study of Siple Dome: WAIS Ice Dynamics, WAISCORES Paleoclimate and Ice Stream/Ice Dome Interactions"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "Siple Dome Ice Core", "south": -81.0, "title": "Siple Dome Ice Core Age-Depth Scales", "uid": "609130", "west": -149.0}, {"awards": "XXXXXXX Palais, Julie", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "date_created": "Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set is part of the WAISCORES project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and analyzed ice cores from the Siple Dome, in the Siple Coast region, West Antarctica.\n\nThis data set provides measurements of stable isotopes of water and deuterium excess for the Siple Dome ice cores. The shallow cores from Siple Dome were analyzed for isotopes with sub-annual temporal detail.", "east": -149.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Chemistry:ice; Chemistry:Ice; Geochemistry; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Isotope; Paleoclimate; Siple Dome; Siple Dome Ice Core; WAISCORES", "locations": "Siple Dome; Antarctica", "north": -81.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Steig, Eric J.; White, James", "project_titles": null, "projects": null, "repositories": null, "science_programs": "Siple Dome Ice Core", "south": -81.0, "title": "Siple Dome Highlights: Stable isotopes", "uid": "609134", "west": -149.0}, {"awards": "0512971 Brook, Edward", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "date_created": "Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set is part of the WAISCORES project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and analyzed ice cores from the Siple Dome, in the Siple Coast region, West Antarctica.\n\nBrooks measured methane in approximately 196 samples between 55.6 and 738.5 m (0-20 ka) in the Siple Dome ice core, and then extended the Siple Dome methane record at medium resolution down to about 860m, corresponding to an age of about 45 ka. The team compared the results with data from the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) and the Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP).", "east": -149.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Chemistry:fluid; Chemistry:Fluid; Chemistry:ice; Chemistry:Ice; Geochemistry; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Methane; Paleoclimate; Siple Dome; Siple Dome Ice Core; WAISCORES", "locations": "Siple Dome; Antarctica", "north": -81.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Brook, Edward J.", "project_titles": "High Resolution Records of Atmospheric Methane in Ice Cores and Implications for Late Quaternary Climate Change", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000034", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "High Resolution Records of Atmospheric Methane in Ice Cores and Implications for Late Quaternary Climate Change"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "Siple Dome Ice Core", "south": -81.0, "title": "Siple Dome Methane Record", "uid": "609124", "west": -149.0}, {"awards": "0126286 McConnell, Joseph", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "date_created": "Wed, 14 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set is part of the WAISCORES project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and analyzed ice cores from the Siple Dome, in the Siple Coast region, West Antarctica.\n\nLamorey measured the density of the shallow Siple Dome cores B - I. One-meter sections of the ice core were weighed on a balance beam in the field. The volume was determined by measuring the diameter and length of the core. The data consists of tab-delimited text files of density measurements and a sonic velocity profile, and a .gif format density-versus-depth plot. Data are available via FTP.", "east": -149.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Physical Properties; Siple Dome; Siple Dome Ice Core; WAISCORES", "locations": "Siple Dome; Antarctica", "north": -81.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Lamorey, Gregg W.", "project_titles": "Continuous High Resolution Ice-Core Chemistry using ICP-MS at Siple Dome", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000159", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Continuous High Resolution Ice-Core Chemistry using ICP-MS at Siple Dome"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -81.0, "title": "Siple Shallow Core Density Data", "uid": "609129", "west": -149.0}, {"awards": "9527262 Gow, Anthony", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "date_created": "Wed, 14 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set is part of the WAISCORES project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and analyzed ice cores from the Siple Dome, in the Siple Coast region, West Antarctica.\n\nThis data set includes annual layer data for Siple Dome ice cores A, B, and C, based on stratigraphy; thin-section images, and fabric data. The study included the analysis of more than 2500 crystallographic c-axes conducted on 50 thin sections from the main PICO core.", "east": -149.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Photo/video; Photo/Video; Siple Dome; Siple Dome Ice Core; WAISCORES", "locations": "Siple Dome; Antarctica", "north": -81.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Gow, Tony; Meese, Deb", "project_titles": "Physical and Structural Properties of the Siple Dome Core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000064", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Physical and Structural Properties of the Siple Dome Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "Siple Dome Ice Core", "south": -81.0, "title": "Physical and Structural Properties of the Siple Dome Ice Cores", "uid": "609128", "west": -149.0}, {"awards": "9615554 Fitzpatrick, Joan", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "date_created": "Wed, 14 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set is part of the WAISCORES project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and analyzed ice cores from the Siple Dome, in the Siple Coast region, West Antarctica.\n\nThis data set comprises low-resolution (72 dpi) jpg images of thin sections from the Siple Dome ice core. The images were acquired during the 1997/1998 field season, from both the SDM-A, or main 13.2-cm, core and from the hot water core recovered by Hermann Englehardt. The data set includes both vertical and horizontal thin sections. With one exception, all images were recorded in cross-polarized light. Two examples of archived high-resolution (275 dpi) images are provided for direct comparison of the low- and high-resolution images.", "east": -149.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Photo/video; Photo/Video; Siple Dome; Siple Dome Ice Core; WAISCORES", "locations": "Siple Dome; Antarctica", "north": -81.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Fitzpatrick, Joan", "project_titles": "Digital Imaging for Ice Core Analysis", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000011", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Digital Imaging for Ice Core Analysis"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "Siple Dome Ice Core", "south": -81.0, "title": "Digital Images of Thin Sections from Siple Dome", "uid": "609127", "west": -149.0}, {"awards": "9527373 Dunbar, Nelia", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)", "POINT(158.7889 -77.95)"], "date_created": "Wed, 14 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set is part of the WAISCORES project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and analyzed ice cores from the Siple Dome, in the Siple Coast region, West Antarctica.\n\nThis data set includes backscattered electron images of tephra samples extracted from the Siple and Taylor Dome ice cores, as well as electron microprobe analyses of glass shards in cases where significant, compositionally-consistent glass populations were present. The data set also includes data on the amount of volcanically derived sulfate deposited on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and recorded in the Siple Dome ice core.", "east": 158.7889, "geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)", "POINT(158.7889 -77.95)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Chemistry:rock; Chemistry:Rock; Geochemistry; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Paleoclimate; Siple Dome Ice Core; Taylor Dome Ice Core; Tephra; WAIS; WAISCORES", "locations": "WAIS; Antarctica", "north": -77.95, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Zielinski, Gregory; Dunbar, Nelia", "project_titles": "Collaborative Research: Volcanic Record in Antarctic Ice: Implications for Climatic and Eruptive History and Ice Sheet Dynamics of the South Polar Region", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000065", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Collaborative Research: Volcanic Record in Antarctic Ice: Implications for Climatic and Eruptive History and Ice Sheet Dynamics of the South Polar Region"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "Taylor Dome Ice Core; Siple Dome Ice Core", "south": -81.0, "title": "Volcanic Records in the Siple and Taylor Dome Ice Cores", "uid": "609126", "west": -149.0}, {"awards": "9526420 Taylor, Kendrick", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "date_created": "Thu, 08 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set is part of the WAISCORES project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and analyzed ice cores from the Siple Dome, in the Siple Coast region, West Antarctica.\n\nTaylor measured the electrical conductivity (ECM) and Complex Conductivity (CC), a measure of the total ions in the ice, in the main Siple Dome ice core. Measurements were taken along the core from a depth of 0 m to 800 m. The project also analyzed shallower cores for ECM and dielectric properties (DEP). (DEP is also a measure of the total ions in the ice, but with lower spatial resolution than the CC.) Albedo measurements where made on the shallow cores and the main core to a depth of 391 m. The data set includes images showing the electrical conductivity of a vertical section of the core.", "east": -149.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Electrical Conductivity; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Physical Properties; Siple Dome; Siple Dome Ice Core; WAISCORES", "locations": "Siple Dome; Antarctica", "north": -81.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Taylor, Kendrick C.", "project_titles": "Electrical and Optical Measurements on the Siple Dome Ice Core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000163", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Electrical and Optical Measurements on the Siple Dome Ice Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "Siple Dome Ice Core", "south": -81.0, "title": "Siple Dome Cores Electrical Measurement Data", "uid": "609133", "west": -149.0}, {"awards": "9526572 Bales, Roger", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "date_created": "Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set is part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Cores (WAISCORES) project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and analyzed snow pit and core samples from the Siple Dome, in the Siple Coast region, West Antarctica. This data set includes glaciochemical spatial variability data for six Siple Dome snow pits. Samples involved measuring hydrogen peroxide (H\u003csub\u003e2\u003c/sub\u003eO\u003csub\u003e2\u003c/sub\u003e) and formaldehyde (HCHO) in the air, snow, firn, and ice via suppressed ion chromatography. The data can be used to interpret changes in concentrations of these species recorded in ice cores. Data in this collection were obtained during two Antarctic field seasons in 1994 to 1995 and 1996 to 1997. Data are available via FTP in tab-delimited ASCII text (.dat, .txt) file format.", "east": -149.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Atmosphere; Chemistry:fluid; Chemistry:Fluid; Chemistry:ice; Chemistry:Ice; Geochemistry; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Siple Dome; Snow/ice; Snow/Ice; WAISCORES", "locations": "Siple Dome; Antarctica", "north": -81.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "McConnell, Joseph; Bales, Roger", "project_titles": "Snow-Atmosphere Transfer Function for Reversibly Deposited Chemical Species in West Antarctica", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000060", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Snow-Atmosphere Transfer Function for Reversibly Deposited Chemical Species in West Antarctica"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -81.0, "title": "Snow-atmosphere Transfer Function for Reversibly Deposited Chemical Species in West Antarctica", "uid": "609122", "west": -149.0}, {"awards": "9526449 Mayewski, Paul", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-149.11 -81.05,-149.05 -81.05,-148.99 -81.05,-148.93 -81.05,-148.87 -81.05,-148.81 -81.05,-148.75 -81.05,-148.69 -81.05,-148.63 -81.05,-148.57 -81.05,-148.51 -81.05,-148.51 -81.11,-148.51 -81.17,-148.51 -81.23,-148.51 -81.29,-148.51 -81.35,-148.51 -81.41,-148.51 -81.47,-148.51 -81.53,-148.51 -81.59,-148.51 -81.65,-148.57 -81.65,-148.63 -81.65,-148.69 -81.65,-148.75 -81.65,-148.81 -81.65,-148.87 -81.65,-148.93 -81.65,-148.99 -81.65,-149.05 -81.65,-149.11 -81.65,-149.11 -81.59,-149.11 -81.53,-149.11 -81.47,-149.11 -81.41,-149.11 -81.35,-149.11 -81.29,-149.11 -81.23,-149.11 -81.17,-149.11 -81.11,-149.11 -81.05))"], "date_created": "Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set is part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet cores (WAISCORES) project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and analyzed snow pit and core samples from the Siple Dome, in the Siple Coast region, West Antarctica.\n\nThis data set includes glaciochemical spatial variability data for Siple Dome snow pits B, E, F, G, H, and 1 through 6. Samples were analyzed for soluble ion content via suppressed ion chromatography. Each pit was sampled at 2 cm resolution for ion chemistry using clean procedures, and sampled again at 3 cm resolution for density calculations. Snow pit names and locations correspond to the 1996 to 1997 season shallow core sites.\n\nData in this collection were obtained during two Antarctic field seasons in 1994 to 1995 and 1996 to 1997. Data are available via FTP in space-delimited ASCII text (.dat) file format.", "east": -148.51, "geometry": ["POINT(-148.81 -81.35)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Chemistry:ice; Chemistry:Ice; Geochemistry; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Ice Core Records; Paleoclimate; Snow/ice; Snow/Ice; Snow Pit; WAIS; WAISCORES", "locations": "WAIS; Antarctica", "north": -81.05, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Kreutz, Karl; Mayewski, Paul A.", "project_titles": "Siple Dome Deep Ice Core Glaciochemistry and Regional Survey - A Contribution to the WAIS Initiative", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000012", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Siple Dome Deep Ice Core Glaciochemistry and Regional Survey - A Contribution to the WAIS Initiative"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -81.65, "title": "WAISCORES Snow Pit Chemistry, Antarctica", "uid": "609420", "west": -149.11}, {"awards": "0338359 Saltzman, Eric", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "date_created": "Wed, 10 Jul 2002 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set is part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet cores (WAISCORES) project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and analyzed ice cores from the Siple Dome, in the Siple Coast region, West Antarctica. Siple Dome ice cores were analyzed for methanesulfonate (MSA) and carbonyl sulfide (OCS). The methanesulfonate analysis was done on cores A-E and a hot water core, and the carbonyl sulfide analysis was done on 11 C cores. Methanesulfonate data include the sample identification number, depth, and methanesulfonate parts per billion (ppb) of each sample. Carbonyl sulfide data include the depth, OCS parts per trillion (ppt) of each sample, percent error, and gas age (years). Data are available via FTP in tab-delimited ASCII text (.dat, .txt) file format.", "east": -149.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Chemistry:ice; Chemistry:Ice; Geochemistry; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Methane; Siple Dome; Siple Dome Ice Core; WAISCORES", "locations": "Siple Dome; Antarctica", "north": -81.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Saltzman, Eric; Aydin, Murat", "project_titles": "Methyl chloride and methyl bromide in Antarctic ice cores", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000032", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Methyl chloride and methyl bromide in Antarctic ice cores"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "Siple Dome Ice Core", "south": -81.0, "title": "Methane and Carbonyl Sulfide Analysis of Siple Dome Ice Core Subsamples", "uid": "609131", "west": -149.0}, {"awards": "XXXXXXX Palais, Julie", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "date_created": "Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "The WAISCORES project is part of the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs\u0027 West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) initiative, which is aimed at understanding the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change.\nWAISCORES researchers acquired and analyzed ice cores from the Siple Dome, in the Siple Coast region, West Antarctica. These cores allow researchers to distinguish local from regional influences on the climate records recovered from the cores. Drilling for the Siple Dome core began in November 1996 and finished in January 1999. The core site is located between ice streams C and D at approximately 81\u00b0 40\u0027 S and 148\u00b0 49\u0027 W. Preliminary studies indicate that the paleoclimate record preserved in the 1003-meter Siple Dome ice core extends back more than 90 thousand years. Data are available via ftp.\n\nThe following WAISCORES investigators have made contributions to WAISCORES research. NSIDC archives data for many of these investigators: Mary Albert, Richard Alley, Robin Bell, Michael Bender, Robert Bindscadler, Pierre Biscaye, Donald Blankenship, Ed Brook, Nelia Dunbar, Joan Fitzpatrick, Tony Gow, Gregg Lamorey, Paul Mayewski, Joseph McConnell, Deb Meese, Nadine Nereson, Charlie Raymond, Eric Saltzman, Eric Steig, Christopher Shuman, Ken Taylor, Lonnie Thompson, Edwin Waddington, Martin Wahlen, James White, and Gret Zielinksi.", "east": -149.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; WAIS; WAISCORES", "locations": "WAIS; Antarctica", "north": -81.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Lamorey, Gregg W.", "project_titles": null, "projects": null, "repositories": null, "science_programs": null, "south": -81.0, "title": "WAISCORES: Deep Ice Coring in West Antarctica", "uid": "609120", "west": -149.0}, {"awards": "9526601 Albert, Mary", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-148 -81)"], "date_created": "Sat, 01 Dec 2001 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set includes measurements of snow and firn temperature and permeability collected between November 1998 and June 1999 at Siple Dome. The physical characteristics of snow determine the nature of air-snow exchange processes, which in turn affect chemical records in ice cores. Thus a better understanding of the physical properties of snow will improve interpretation of ice core records of atmospheric composition.\n\nData are available via ftp in both ASCII and Excel formats.", "east": -148.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-148 -81)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Glaciology; Permeability; Siple Dome; Siple Dome Ice Core; Snow/ice; Snow/Ice; Temperature", "locations": "Siple Dome; Antarctica", "north": -81.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Albert, Mary R.", "project_titles": "Near-Surface Processes Affecting Gas Exchange: West Antarctic Ice Sheet", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000061", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Near-Surface Processes Affecting Gas Exchange: West Antarctic Ice Sheet"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "Siple Dome Ice Core", "south": -81.0, "title": "Snow and Firn Temperature and Permeability Measurements from Siple Dome, Antarctica", "uid": "609100", "west": -148.0}, {"awards": "9222121 Dalziel, Ian; 9318121 Anandakrishnan, Sridhar", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-152.598 -81.8039,-149.8369 -81.8039,-147.0758 -81.8039,-144.3147 -81.8039,-141.5536 -81.8039,-138.7925 -81.8039,-136.0314 -81.8039,-133.2703 -81.8039,-130.5092 -81.8039,-127.7481 -81.8039,-124.987 -81.8039,-124.987 -81.90464,-124.987 -82.00538,-124.987 -82.10612,-124.987 -82.20686,-124.987 -82.3076,-124.987 -82.40834,-124.987 -82.50908,-124.987 -82.60982,-124.987 -82.71056,-124.987 -82.8113,-127.7481 -82.8113,-130.5092 -82.8113,-133.2703 -82.8113,-136.0314 -82.8113,-138.7925 -82.8113,-141.5536 -82.8113,-144.3147 -82.8113,-147.0758 -82.8113,-149.8369 -82.8113,-152.598 -82.8113,-152.598 -82.71056,-152.598 -82.60982,-152.598 -82.50908,-152.598 -82.40834,-152.598 -82.3076,-152.598 -82.20686,-152.598 -82.10612,-152.598 -82.00538,-152.598 -81.90464,-152.598 -81.8039))", "POLYGON((-121.644 -82.2764,-121.4814 -82.2764,-121.3188 -82.2764,-121.1562 -82.2764,-120.9936 -82.2764,-120.831 -82.2764,-120.6684 -82.2764,-120.5058 -82.2764,-120.3432 -82.2764,-120.1806 -82.2764,-120.018 -82.2764,-120.018 -82.28496,-120.018 -82.29352,-120.018 -82.30208,-120.018 -82.31064,-120.018 -82.3192,-120.018 -82.32776,-120.018 -82.33632,-120.018 -82.34488,-120.018 -82.35344,-120.018 -82.362,-120.1806 -82.362,-120.3432 -82.362,-120.5058 -82.362,-120.6684 -82.362,-120.831 -82.362,-120.9936 -82.362,-121.1562 -82.362,-121.3188 -82.362,-121.4814 -82.362,-121.644 -82.362,-121.644 -82.35344,-121.644 -82.34488,-121.644 -82.33632,-121.644 -82.32776,-121.644 -82.3192,-121.644 -82.31064,-121.644 -82.30208,-121.644 -82.29352,-121.644 -82.28496,-121.644 -82.2764))"], "date_created": "Sat, 01 Dec 2001 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "Ice velocity data from ice stream C, including the body of the ice stream and its area of onset, are available. The investigator calculated velocities from precise ice displacement measurements made with a geodetic-quality Global Positioning System (GPS). These ice displacement measurements accompanied seismic experiments aimed at understanding controls on the flow of ice streams in west Antarctica. An understanding of ice stream flow is essential to predicting the response of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to future climate change.\n\nData are available in ASCII format via ftp.", "east": -120.018, "geometry": ["POINT(-138.7925 -82.3076)", "POINT(-120.831 -82.3192)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Geodesy; Geology/Geophysics - Other; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; GPS; WAIS", "locations": "WAIS; Antarctica", "north": -81.8039, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Anandakrishnan, Sridhar", "project_titles": "Microearthquake Monitoring of Ice Stream C, West Antarctica: A Sensor for Sticky Spots", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000161", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Microearthquake Monitoring of Ice Stream C, West Antarctica: A Sensor for Sticky Spots"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": null, "south": -82.8113, "title": "Ice Velocity Data from Ice Stream C, West Antarctica", "uid": "609106", "west": -152.598}, {"awards": "9316338 Jacobel, Robert", "bounds_geometry": ["POLYGON((-155 -81,-154 -81,-153 -81,-152 -81,-151 -81,-150 -81,-149 -81,-148 -81,-147 -81,-146 -81,-145 -81,-145 -81.2,-145 -81.4,-145 -81.6,-145 -81.8,-145 -82,-145 -82.2,-145 -82.4,-145 -82.6,-145 -82.8,-145 -83,-146 -83,-147 -83,-148 -83,-149 -83,-150 -83,-151 -83,-152 -83,-153 -83,-154 -83,-155 -83,-155 -82.8,-155 -82.6,-155 -82.4,-155 -82.2,-155 -82,-155 -81.8,-155 -81.6,-155 -81.4,-155 -81.2,-155 -81))"], "date_created": "Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "The Siple Dome Glaciology and Ice Stream History project was part of Western Divide West Antarctic Ice Cores (WAISCORES), an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic ice sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and analyzed ice cores from the Siple Dome, in the Siple Coast region, West Antarctica.\n\nThis project supported glaciological studies of Siple Dome and its surroundings between Ice Streams C and D, via two major goals. First, it sought to characterize the dynamic environment and ice stratigraphy of Siple Dome and its surroundings, with the specific mission of assessing Siple Dome as a potential deep core site; and second, to determine whether the configuration of ice stream flow in the region has changed over time. Both goals are relevant to understanding the dynamics of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), its history, and potential future behavior.\n\nThis project was a collaboration between Saint Olaf College, the University of Washington, and the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado. It included studies of satellite imagery and acquisition and analysis of field data from GPS, firn cores and snow pits, and ground-based ice-penetrating radar.\n\nData in this collection were obtained during two Antarctic field seasons in 1994\u201395 and 1996\u201397. The data set is available via FTP as Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet (.xls) and ASCII tab delimited (.txt) files. Related notes are available as a Microsoft Word (.doc) or text (.txt) file. Related images and charts are available as Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) and Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpg) files.", "east": -145.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-150 -82)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Geology/Geophysics - Other; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Sample/collection Description; Sample/Collection Description; Siple Dome; Siple Dome Ice Core", "locations": "Siple Dome; Antarctica", "north": -81.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Jacobel, Robert", "project_titles": "Siple Dome Glaciology and Ice Stream History", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000190", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Siple Dome Glaciology and Ice Stream History"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "Siple Dome Ice Core", "south": -83.0, "title": "Siple Dome Glaciology and Ice Stream History 1994, 1996", "uid": "609085", "west": -155.0}, {"awards": "9526374 Alley, Richard", "bounds_geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "date_created": "Wed, 01 Jan 1997 00:00:00 GMT", "description": "This data set is part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet cores (WAISCORES) project, an NSF-funded project to understand the influence of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet on climate and sea level change. WAISCORES researchers acquired and analyzed ice cores from the Siple Dome, in the Siple Coast region, West Antarctica.\n\nThis data set includes melt layers and annual layer data for Siple Dome cores A through J, and upstream core C (UpC). Cores were examined on a light table after the core had been sectioned longitudinally and samples removed for isotopic, chemical, and other analyses, and after the surface had been smoothed using a planer. Major stratigraphic features were noted, such as coarse-grained and fine-grained firn at shallow depths, and coarse-bubbled and fine-bubbled ice at greater depth. Melt layers were identified as bubble-free or nearly-bubble-free zones. Core lengths ranged from 30 to 133 meters.\n\nData in this collection were obtained in the summer of 1997. The data set is available via FTP as ACSII data (.dat), metadata (.meta) and text (.txt) files.", "east": -149.0, "geometry": ["POINT(-149 -81)"], "keywords": "Antarctica; Geochemistry; Glaciers/ice Sheet; Glaciers/Ice Sheet; Glaciology; Ice Core Records; Paleoclimate; Sample/collection Description; Sample/Collection Description; Siple Dome; Siple Dome Ice Core; WAISCORES", "locations": "Siple Dome; Antarctica", "north": -81.0, "nsf_funding_programs": "Antarctic Glaciology", "persons": "Alley, Richard", "project_titles": "Physical Properties of the Siple Dome Deep Ice Core", "projects": [{"proj_uid": "p0000059", "repository": "USAP-DC", "title": "Physical Properties of the Siple Dome Deep Ice Core"}], "repo": "USAP-DC", "repositories": "USAP-DC", "science_programs": "Siple Dome Ice Core", "south": -81.0, "title": "Visible Stratigraphic Dating, Siple Dome and Upstream C Cores", "uid": "609121", "west": -149.0}]

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