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LARISSA

LARISSA is a National Science Foundation funded initiative that will bring an international, interdisciplinary team together to address a significant regional problem with global change implications, the abrupt environmental change in Antarctica's Larsen Ice Shelf System.

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Funded International Partners
Belgium-Ghent University
Argentina-Argentine Antarctic Institute

'LARISSA' -- "LARsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica"
Larissa was a figure from Greek mythology,a wife of Poseidon; often pictured holding a vessel of water, the vessel having three handles. We think of the three handles as 'Ice/Climate' - 'Marine Geology' - 'Life')

SLIDESHOW

UPCOMING EVENTS

Antarctic Peninsula Climate Change
5th International Workshop... Climate, Ice, Ocean, and Life
June 24-26 2008 UC Irvine, California

NEWS

Alex DeMoor '10 is taking part in the LMG 08 08 cruise under the supervision of Scott Ishman, an Associate Professor in the Department of Geology and Center for Ecology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Ishman is a longtime colleague of Professor Eugene Domack of Hamilton College.

Two Hamilton students Kimberly Roe '08 and Alex DeMoor '10 will be presenting at The 33rd International Geological Congress Oslo 2008.

Read abstracts.

Taylor Burt presented at the 2008 Northeastern Section of GSA and his abstract can be found here.

Kimberly Roe '08 presented a poster entitled, The Effects of Ice Shelf Break-up on Changes in Particulate Carbon Distribution and Composition, Examples from the Larsen System, Antarctica, at the 2007 AGU Fall Meeting.