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| Dataset Title/Abstract/Map | NSF Award(s) | Date Created | PIs / Scientists | Project Links | Abstract | Bounds Geometry | Geometry | Selected | Visible |
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Weather, Firn Core, and Ground-penetrating radar data from southern Wilkins and George VI ice shelves, 2018-2019
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1745116 |
2025-02-24 | Scambos, Ted; Miller, Julie; Miege, Clement; Montgomery, Lynn; Wallin, Bruce |
Antarctic Firn Aquifers: Extent, Characteristics, and Comparison with Greenland Occurrences |
Data were collected from two sites, one on the southern Wilkins and another on the southern George VI ice shelves. Both sites were investigated as potential sites of perennial firn aquifers; in the case of the southern Wilkins, an extensive firn aquifer was found (Montgomery et al., 2020). Data sources come from two early-model AMIGOS stations (Scambos et al., 2013), ice cores that were collected by hot-ring coring (Montgomery et al., 2020), and ground-penetrating radar profiles. Thermistor data from several depths within the firn core boreholes, transmitted by the AMIGOS stations, show the progression of the seasonal variations in firn temperature at the sites. Radar data show the depth of the firn aquifer (or, its absence at George VI site), and some drainage effects at a nearby rift at the Wilkins site. | ["POLYGON((-73 -70.5,-72.35 -70.5,-71.7 -70.5,-71.05 -70.5,-70.4 -70.5,-69.75 -70.5,-69.1 -70.5,-68.45 -70.5,-67.8 -70.5,-67.15 -70.5,-66.5 -70.5,-66.5 -70.8,-66.5 -71.1,-66.5 -71.4,-66.5 -71.7,-66.5 -72,-66.5 -72.3,-66.5 -72.6,-66.5 -72.9,-66.5 -73.2,-66.5 -73.5,-67.15 -73.5,-67.8 -73.5,-68.45 -73.5,-69.1 -73.5,-69.75 -73.5,-70.4 -73.5,-71.05 -73.5,-71.7 -73.5,-72.35 -73.5,-73 -73.5,-73 -73.2,-73 -72.9,-73 -72.6,-73 -72.3,-73 -72,-73 -71.7,-73 -71.4,-73 -71.1,-73 -70.8,-73 -70.5))"] | ["POINT(-69.75 -72)"] | false | false |
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Density, hydrology and geophysical measurements from the Wilkins Ice Shelf firn aquifer
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1745116 |
2020-10-21 | Miège, Clément; Montgomery, Lynn; Miller, Julie; Scambos, Ted; Wallin, Bruce; Miller, Olivia; Solomon, Kip; Forster, Richard; Koenig, Lora |
Antarctic Firn Aquifers: Extent, Characteristics, and Comparison with Greenland Occurrences |
This dataset compiles a suite of glaciology (density, stratigraphy), hydrology (slug and dilution tests) and geophysical measurements (GPS, GPR, ApRES) to characterize a firn aquifer observed within the Wilkins Ice Shelf, Antarctica. | ["POLYGON((-72 -70.75,-71.95 -70.75,-71.9 -70.75,-71.85 -70.75,-71.8 -70.75,-71.75 -70.75,-71.7 -70.75,-71.65 -70.75,-71.6 -70.75,-71.55 -70.75,-71.5 -70.75,-71.5 -70.775,-71.5 -70.8,-71.5 -70.825,-71.5 -70.85,-71.5 -70.875,-71.5 -70.9,-71.5 -70.925,-71.5 -70.95,-71.5 -70.975,-71.5 -71,-71.55 -71,-71.6 -71,-71.65 -71,-71.7 -71,-71.75 -71,-71.8 -71,-71.85 -71,-71.9 -71,-71.95 -71,-72 -71,-72 -70.975,-72 -70.95,-72 -70.925,-72 -70.9,-72 -70.875,-72 -70.85,-72 -70.825,-72 -70.8,-72 -70.775,-72 -70.75))"] | ["POINT(-71.75 -70.875)"] | false | false |
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SGER: Foraging Patterns of Elephant Seals in the Vicinity of the WIlkins Ice Shelf
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0840375 |
2010-01-01 | Goebel, Michael; Costa, Daniel |
SGER: Foraging Patterns of Elephant Seals in the Vicinity of the WIlkins Ice Shelf |
Long-lived animals such as elephant seals may endure variation in food resources over large spatial and temporal scales. Understanding how they respond to these fluctuations requires knowledge of how their foraging behavior and habitat utilization varies over time. Advances in satellite-linked data logging have made it possible to correlate the foraging behavior of marine mammals with their physical and chemical environment and provide insight into the mechanisms controlling at-sea movements, foraging behavior and, ultimately, reproductive success of these pelagic predators. In addition, these technological advances enable marine mammals to be used as highly cost-effective platforms from which detailed oceanographic data can be collected on a scale not possible with conventional methods. The project will extend the four-year-time-series collected on the foraging behavior and habitat utilization of southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) foraging in the Western Antarctic Peninsula. It also will extend the oceanographic time-series of CTD profiles collected by the elephant seals foraging from the Livingston Island rookery. Seals have been collecting CTD profiles in the vicinity of the Wilkins Ice Shelf (WIS) since 2005. We thus have a 4 year data set that preceding and during the breakup of the WIS that occurred during March 2008. Deployment of additional tags on seals will provide a unique opportunity to collect oceanographic data after the ice shelf has collapsed. | ["POLYGON((-64 -60,-63 -60,-62 -60,-61 -60,-60 -60,-59 -60,-58 -60,-57 -60,-56 -60,-55 -60,-54 -60,-54 -60.4,-54 -60.8,-54 -61.2,-54 -61.6,-54 -62,-54 -62.4,-54 -62.8,-54 -63.2,-54 -63.6,-54 -64,-55 -64,-56 -64,-57 -64,-58 -64,-59 -64,-60 -64,-61 -64,-62 -64,-63 -64,-64 -64,-64 -63.6,-64 -63.2,-64 -62.8,-64 -62.4,-64 -62,-64 -61.6,-64 -61.2,-64 -60.8,-64 -60.4,-64 -60))"] | ["POINT(-59 -62)"] | false | false |
