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Antarctic Peninsula Climate Variability Workshops


Antarctic Peninsula Climate Variability: Observations, Models, and Plans for IPY Research
May 14-16, 2006
National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder

 
Previous Workshops
Antarctic Peninsula Climate Variability: History, Causes and Impacts
September 16-18, 2004 in Cambridge, England, sponsored by the British Antarctic Survey
Antarctic Peninsula Climate Variability: A Historical and Paleoenvironmental Perspective
April 3-5, 2002 at Hamilton College

1999, University of California, Santa Barbara

View from the ship on the 2005 expedition to Antarctica
(L to R) Heather Schrum, Veronica Willmott and Ashley Hatfield collect samples from the Smith McIntyre grab.

News

 

Collapse of Antarctic Ice Shelf Unprecedented
The Antarctic Peninsula is undergoing greater warming than almost anywhere on Earth, a condition perhaps associated with human-induced greenhouse effects. According to the cover article published by Geosciences Professor Eugene Domack in the August 4, 2005 issue of the journal Nature, the spectacular collapse of Antarctica's Larsen B Ice Shelf, is unprecedented during the past 10,000 years. More ...

Ecosystem Beneath a Collapsed Antarctic Ice Shelf Discovered
The chance discovery of a vast ecosystem beneath the collapsed Larsen Ice Shelf will allow scientists to explore the uncharted life below Antarctica's floating ice shelves and further probe the origins of life in extreme environments. Researchers on the 2005 expedition discovered the sunless habitat after reviewing a recent underwater video study examining a deep glacial trough in the northwestern Weddell Sea following the sudden Larsen B shelf collapse in 2002. More...