New! ICECAP Metadata (Season 1, 2008-09, positions) »
News:
10/2009: 2009 - 2010 field season begins
2/6/2009: This Week at Casey, Australian Antarctic Division, field update
2/6/2009: Mapping East Antarctica's Uncharted Territory, a video interview with Jack Holt, Ice Stories - Dispatches from Polar Scientists, Exploratorium
1/23/2009: In warming climate, which ice sheets melt first? an interview with Don Blankenship, Earth and Sky Radio Series
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Participants:
Insitute for Geophysics, The
University of Texas at Austin:
Don Blankenship
(PI)
Ian Dalziel
(Co-PI)
Jack Holt (Co-PI)
Lawrence Lawver
(Co-PI)
Duncan Young
(Collaborator)
Martin Siegert (PI)
Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, University of Tasmania & Australian Government Antarctic Division:
Tas van Ommen (PI)
Jason Roberts (Co-PI)
Roland Warner (Collaborator)
Neal Young (Collaborator)
School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol:
Jonathan Bamber (Co-PI)
Tony Payne (Collaborator)
Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge:
Julian Dowdeswell (Co-PI)
British Antarctic Survey:
Fausto Ferracciolli (Collaborator)
Aurora Subglacial Basin in East Antarctica (From BEDMAP)
Project Description :
The Aurora Subglacial Basin and the Wilkes Subglacial Basin represent
the weak underbelly of the East Antarctica Ice Sheet.
The ICECAP project, supported by the Australian Antarctic Division, the
U.S. National Science Foundation, and the U.K.'s National Environmental
Research Council, represents a resumption of long range aerogeophysical
research in Antarctica. This capacity -- in the form of a DC-3
equipped with multi-frequency ice penetrating radar, laser altimeter,
magnetometers and a gravity meter -- allows several important questions
about East Antarctic Ice Sheet to be addressed.
Read
the Press Relase 10/28/08 »
- View the University of Bristol's ICECAP site
(maintained by Andrew Wright, University of Edinburgh) »
Upcoming Field Campaigns
Our field plan extends our coverage of the Aurora Subglacial Basin beneath the majority of the Totten Glacier Drainage, from the deep interior to the grounding line.
Season 1 (2008/9): The survey will cover the blue
lines radiating from the Casey station
of the Australian Antarctic Division in Wilkes Land, west of Law Dome.
This area encompasses the Aurora Subglacial Basin and
the grounding line region near the mouth of the Totten Glacier, one of
the largest in Antarctica, as well as the Astrolabe Basin where the
thickest ice in Antarctica is located.
Season 2 (2009/10): Radial flight lines emanating from McMurdo Station
will be flown. This area covers the southern
part of the Wilkes Subglacial Basin and links in with work by other
groups at Dome C and Vostok. A 50 km grid over the Aurora basin and a
25 km grid over Law Dome and the lower part of Totten Glacier will also
be surveyed.
Season 3 (2010/2011): In the third season flights out
of McMurdo Station will survey a 25 km grid over the
southern part of the Wilkes Basin.
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