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Announcement for LARISSA short course June 2009

A two week short course will be held during June 2009 at Hamilton College. The course will be taught by the principal investigators of the marine and Quaternary Geosciences team. The focus of this upper undergraduate-level course will be Antarctic geosciences. Details coming soon.

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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')

Marine Geology of the Larsen Ice Shelf, Break-Up
An NSF Sponsored Short Course for Students
July 11-24, 2010

A two-week long short course for students interested in learning about the marine record of ice shelf settings and sediment core methodologies will be held at Hamilton College. This is an NSF sponsored activity related to International Polar Year (IPY) and the LARISSA project. More ...