International collaboration in the Antarctic for global science Dr. Karl Erb Director Office of Polar Programs National Science Foundation (USA)

Slides:

Advertisements

Similar presentations

Antarctic Science Global Relevance Dr Anna E Jones ATCM XXVI Madrid, June 2003 Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.

Advertisements

ANTARCTIC CLIMATE EVOLUTION (ACE) An international research initiative to study the climate and glacial history of Antarctica through palaeoclimate and.

Antarctica Presented by David A. Callender Sr.. Where Antarctica is located… Antarctica is it ’ s own continent, located at the bottom of the world. The.

Antarctic automatic weather station field plans Jonathan Thom, Matthew Lazzara, George Weidner, Linda Keller, John Cassano.

Antarctica The Continent Series VMS Library

Antarctic Journal: Four Months at the Bottom of the World Photos for Journal Entries By: Jennifer Owings Dewey Photograph by: Lisa Trotter Date Taken:

DUBAI and the ARCTIC S. The city of Dubai is being built about 52 ft. above sea level, with its artificial island satellites only 17 ft. above water.

. Antarctica is a large continent located at the far south of the world. It is larger than Europe. The weather there is very cold. About 98% of Antarctica.

Is exploration and Science In Antarctica worth the Ecological Impact?

What's Happening in the Bathtub?: An Overview of Present-Day Sea Level Change R. Steven Nerem University of Colorado Department of Aerospace Engineering.

1 NASA’s future science needs in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean Waleed Abdalati NASA Headquarters January 24, 2012.

Twenty Questions Subject: Flags of the world Twenty Questions

National Science Foundation and Science Community Needs for Polar Icebreakers Background material prepared for the August 26, 2005 meeting of the NAS/NRC.

Antarctica: An Overview Samantha Hansen, University of Alabama PolarTREC Orientation Meeting February 2012.

World Geography May 20 th, " Ice is the beginning of Antarctica and ice is its end… Ice creates more ice, and ice defines ice. Everything else is.

Antarctica 1: Introduction to a continent. Antarctica  Area = USA + Mexico  Highest continent  Driest Continent  Windiest continent  Coldest.

Tour of Antarctica! Mrs. Swanson 2 nd grade Spring 2005.

JCADM Node Update for the Antarctic Master Directory (AMD) David Kendig GCMD – NASA IDN Node.

All About Antarctica.  Earth's southernmost continent.  The coldest, driest, and windiest continent.  Coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth −128.6.

International Collaboration Working Group – September 23, 2014 Rob Dunbar, Maria Vernet, Ken Johnson, Oscar Schofield, Janet Sprintall, Magdalena Carranza,

Monitoring Earths ice sheets from space Andrew Shepherd School of Geosciences, Edinburgh.

Copyright© EditableMaps.com Editable PowerPoint Maps World & Continents : Antarctica Editable Map

Antarctic Glaciology Julie Palais Program Manager NSF/Office of Polar Programs Antarctic Sciences Section.

Become and expert on Oceania and Antarctica. Polynesia Hot humid Islands in the Pacific Ocean This island group lies east of Melanesia and Micronesia.

Dr. Akhat A. Nabiullin Central Scientific Library, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok.

ANTCI Overall Objective To provide a more comprehensive understanding of Antarctic atmospheric chemistry with the goal of providing new insights related.

Introduction to Antarctica and the Antarctic, Why is it so cold? Jean Pennycook penguinscience.com.

An introduction to Antarctica Aim: To understand the location and key physical features of the continent of Antarctica. Write down as many words that you.

Antarctic History. Map of Antarctica Discovery Captain Cook - his wooden ship could not penetrate the ice ring James Weddell (Sealing)

ANTARCTICA The frozen continent By Thomas 4B/CE2B.

1 Announcing … Global broadband subscribers to 30 June 2005 Total: 176 million 115 million * 65% * choose DSL.

Countries of the World 3 rd and 4 th grade Winter English Camp 2012.

Map of Antarctica:

Global Climate Change: Environmental Consequences.

Office Advisory Committee Update May 2012 Antarctic Infrastructure & Logistics Brian W. Stone Division Director.

Climate Change Workshop – BAESI – 5 th Nov © Chevron Glaciers Distribution of Earth’s water Storehouses of our freshwater > If all of it melted.

Ice Cores and the WAIS What we’ve learned What we still need to accomplish Eric Steig University of Washington.

Independent Research Project Antarctica’s Ice Melting Problem Student: Jurem Ortencio Teacher: Mrs Perera Class: 8H Subject: Humanities.

Denver, The Mile - High City, is about 1,600 meters high. The Antarctic plateau, a big mound of snow & ice, is over 4000 meters high.

Glaciers.  Glaciers: Masses of ice built up over thousands of years.  Alpine Glaciers: Glaciers that occur in high altitudes, such as mountains.  Continental.

Antarctic Regional Interactions Meteorology Experiment (RIME) Antarctic Regional Interactions Meteorology Experiment (RIME) David H. Bromwich 1, John J.

The Antarctic Ice Sheets. Antarctic Geography Antarctica is a continent twice the size of Australia, or the USA plus Mexico, and 58 times the size of.

The IPY Synoptic Antarctic Shelf-Slope Interactions Study (SASSI) Alejandro H. Orsi Texas A&M University Alejandro H. Orsi Texas A&M University.

Office of Polar Programs Office Advisory Committee – May 2005 – Office of Polar Programs Office Advisory Committee – May 2005 – Antarctic Science Highlights.

E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Photo by M. Rosing, University of Copenhagen.

Glaciers.  Glaciers: Masses of ice built up over thousands of years.  Alpine Glaciers: Glaciers that occur in high altitudes, such as mountains.  Continental.

Instructions for using this template. Remember this is Jeopardy, so where I have written “Answer” this is the prompt the students will see, and where.

Southeast Asia and Pacific World Chapters Southeast Asia BruneiCambodia The Philippines Indonesia Singapore Laos Thailand Malaysia Vietnam Myanmar.

Global and Antarctic Climate Change and Biodiversity: Physical connections and Legal disconnections Tina Tin, Scott Hajost, James Barnes Antarctic and.

ANTARCTICA the last “no-man’s land”. ANTARCTICA What is the status quo of political geography in Antarctica? What issues might require international cooperation?

Flag Quiz #1 10 Flags.

Photos for Presentations

Relative Size and Wealth of the Australian Market

Antarctica- Resource Exploitation.

COUNTRIES AND FLAGS.

The Most Visited Countries

Antarctica The Land at 700 South

The World Market.

Update on the READER project

FARO ASSW 2010 NUUK News from Sweden

Let‘s travel! Guess the country..

A Map Grid and Index.

His /her name is ... He / she is from....

Where are you from? Grade 6 Lesson 1 Matthew Teacher.

Follow along on your blank map to put 15 geographic features in and around Antarctica…

Exploring Antarctica and the Southern Ocean

Exploring Antarctica and the Southern Ocean

Presentation transcript:

International collaboration in the Antarctic for global science Dr. Karl Erb Director Office of Polar Programs National Science Foundation (USA)

Russian/U.S. Weddell Sea expeditions 1981: Soviet icebreaker; 13 USA and 13 USSR scientists 1992: Russian and U.S. icebreakers; camp on sea ice; 17 USA and 15 Russian scientists

after Dastidar and Ramachandran, 2008 Multinational Antarctic research papers,

Antarctic Ice Sheet Drainage Siple Coast Ice Streams Pine Island/Thwaites Glacier Drainage Aka Amundsen Sea Embayment Province of WAIS Byrd Glacier Drainage Lambert Glacier/Amery Ice Shelf Drainage East Antarctic Ice Stream Province Mertz Glacier Drainage China - PANDA US-AGAP US-ASEP

Location of first ice sheet (~34 million years ago) Tectonic enigma Potentially very old ice USA, UK, Russia, Germany, China, Australia

Argentina Belgium Korea Ukraine United States Larsen Ice Shelf breakup, 2002 Larsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica (LARISSA) project

PoleNet Greenland and Antarctica

ITASE: International Trans- Antarctic Scientific Expedition

Antarctic Continental Margin Stratigraphic Drilling Germany Italy NZ UK USA

Concordiasi science payload, McMurdo France -USA study of climate

Concordia: Italian and French station at Dome C, East Antarctica

Australian Airbus A319 on sea ice runway, McMurdo, Antarctica

LC-130 (ski-equipped) N.Z. Air Force C-130 on ice runway, McMurdo (wheels only)

Swedish icebreaker Oden in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

National flags of the original Antarctic Treaty signatories Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, U.S. Antarctic Program