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Table 1. Summary of UTIG aerogeophysical investigations in Antarctica. Three-letter acronyms given after project titles correspond to labels in figure below.

Project Title
Project Acronym
Insitutions (Investigators)
Seasons (# flights)
IRE

Ohio State U. (Blankenship), USGS (Hodge, Behrendt), NRL (Brozena), Columbia U. (Bell)

91/92 & 92/93 (93)

BSB
TKD

U. Texas (Blankenship), Columbia U. (Bell), USGS (Finn and Behrendt)

94/95(32)
95/96(88)
96/97(58)

Ice Stream D Radar
*coincident with CASERTZ/WAIS-TKD

TKD
U. Wisconsin (Bentley)

95/96 (38)
96/97 (58)

West Antarctic Glaciology V
WAG
NASA (Bindschadler)

97/98 (15)
98/99 (1)
99/00 (1)

Laser Altimetry for Ice-Sheet Volume-Balance
LIV
Ohio State U. (Whillans and Csatho)

97/98 (2)
98/99 (31)
99/00 (1)

Stress Transmission at Ice-Stream Shear Margins
STI
Ohio State U. (Whillans and Van der Veen)

97/98 (2)
99/00 (13)

PPT
RBG
WLK

Columbia U. (Bell & Buck), U. Texas (Blankenship)

97/98 (4)
98/99 (31)
99/00 (40)

Air-Ground Study of Tectonics at the Boundary Between the Eastern Ross Embayment and Western Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
WMB
UC Santa Barbara (Luyendyk), Colorado College (Siddoway)

97/98 (4)
98/99 (64)

DVD
U. Washington (Waddington), U. Texas (Morse and Blankenship)
99/00 (11)
Understanding the Boundary Condidtions of the Lake Vostok Environment: A Site Survey for Future Studies
LVS
Columbia U. (Bell& Studinger), U. Texas (Morse and Blankenship, Holt, Dalziel)
00/01 (36)
A Broadband Seismic Investigation of Deep Continental Structure Across the East-West Antarctic Boundary
DCS
Washington U. (Weins), Penn State (Nyblade) and U. Alabama (Andakrishnan), U. Texas (Morse and Blankenship, Holt, Dalziel)
00/01 (10)
 

Summary of the UTIG aerogeophysical investigations in Antarctica. Three letter acronyms given after project titles correspond to labels in above figure.


 

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