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Hamilton has joined the academic consortium of UNAVCO, a non-profit, membership-governed consortium that supports and promotes Earth science by advancing high-precision techniques for the measurement and understanding of crustal deformation. UNAVCO also supports education to meet the needs of the community and the public. As a result of the College becoming a permanent UNAVCO member, Hamilton faculty, students and staff may participate in workshops, internships and short courses to help develop understanding of the technologies of measuring crustal motion.

Currently UNAVCO is supporting Hamilton's participation in LARISSA (Larsen Ice Shelf System Antarctica), a National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs initiative of the International Polar Year (IPY). In the next two years, beginning in March 2009, Hamilton faculty and students will be deploying sophisticated bedrock GPS stations, powered by solar cells and batteries, to measure crustal rebound in the Antarctic Peninsula. Crustal rebound will be used to evaluate both interannual changes in ice volume from increased ice loss off the continent (i.e. mass balance) and longer term rebound from the past loading effects of an expanded Peninsula Ice Sheet that receded thousands of years ago.

Hamilton's membership is supported by the Geoscience department and the J. W. Johnson Family Professorship in Environmental Studies.

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