Home
The School
The School
Leadership
COVID-19 Information
Careers
Privacy Policy
Education
Overview
Explore All Programs
MA Climate + Society
Non-Degree Programs
Research
Overview
Research Partners
Research Projects
News
Events
People
All
Faculty
Giving
Shop
Subscribe
·
Support
·
Contact
Research Projects
Location
Theme
Keyword
Search
RESEARCH PROJECTS
BROWSE BY LOCATION
Antarctica Projects
Antarctica Projects
By Project Name
By Startdate
By Enddate
By Location
A preliminary assessment of the influence of ice cove on microbial carbon and energy acquisition during the Antarctic Winter-spring Seasonal Transition
8/1/16
7/31/18
Antarctica
;
West Antarctic Peninsula
A Study of Atmospheric Dust in the WAIS Divide Ice Core Based on Sr-Nd-Pb-He Isotopes
6/8/11
7/31/17
Antarctica
Active lava lakes as a window into magma and volcano dynamics
3/1/14
2/28/18
Global
;
Antarctica
;
Africa
;
Halemaumau crater, HI
;
Mount Erebus, Antarctica
;
Ertale
;
Ethiopia
Antarctic Cryospheric Change: Mechanisms and Feedback on Climate
9/15/18
8/31/21
Antarctica
;
Southern Ocean
Antarctic Gateway Partnership Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Operational Trials
7/15/18
6/30/19
Antarctica
;
Sorsdal ice shelf, East Antarctica
Cape Adare Long Term Moorings (CALM): Analysis Phase
6/1/12
5/31/15
Antarctica
Climate-driven impacts on the marine ecology, biogeochemistry, and carbon cycle of the West Antarctic
6/28/14
6/27/18
Antarctica
Collaborative Research in IPY: Abrupt Environmental Change in the Larson Ice Shelf System, A Multidisciplinary Approach - Cryosphere and Oceans
5/1/08
4/30/14
Antarctica
Collaborative Research: A High-Sensitivity 10Be and Extraterrestrial 3He Record from an Ice Core at South Pole
5/1/16
10/31/20
Antarctica
Collaborative Research: A systems approach to understanding linkages between the Ross Ocean and Ice Shelf Environment and Tectonic setting Through Aerogeophysical Surveys and Modeling (ROSETTA-ICE)
6/30/15
8/31/19
Antarctica
;
Ross Ice Shelf
Collaborative Research: Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice Interaction in a Coastal Polyna
8/15/08
7/31/12
Antarctica
Collaborative Research: Contributions of Prydz Bay Shelf Water to Antarctic Bottom Water Formation
5/15/15
4/30/19
Antarctica
;
Prydz Bay
;
Amery Ice Shelf
Collaborative Research: Deglacial ice dynamics in the Weddell Sea embayment using sediment provenance
9/1/14
8/31/17
Antarctica
;
Weddell Sea
Collaborative Research: Deglacial Ice Dynamics in the Weddell Sea Embayment Using Sediment Provenance
9/1/16
8/31/18
Antarctica
Collaborative Research: EAGER: Evaluating the Larsen Basin S Suitability for Testing the Cretaceous Glaciation Hypothesis
9/1/12
8/31/14
Antarctica
Collaborative Research: East Antarctic Glacial Landscape Evolution (EAGLE): A study using combined thermochronology, geochronology and provenance analysis
9/15/16
8/31/21
Antarctica
Collaborative Research: East Antarctic Outlet Glacier Contributions to the Ross Sea from Chronology of Detrital Grains
12/15/10
11/30/13
Antarctica
Collaborative Research: IPY: GAMBIT: Gamburtsev Aerogeophysical Mapping
10/1/06
9/30/14
Antarctica
Collaborative Research: Landscape Evolution in the McMurdo Dry Valleys: Erosion Rates and Real-time Monitoring of Rock Breakdown in a Hyperarid, Subzero Environment
5/1/18
4/30/22
Antarctica
;
McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Collaborative Research: Modeling Ice-ocean Interaction for the Rapidly Evolving Ice Shelf Cavities of Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, Antarctica
7/15/17
6/30/20
Antarctica
;
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
;
University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory
Collaborative Research: Multidisciplinary Analysis of Antarctic Blue Ice Moraine Formation and their Potential as Climate Archives over Multiple Glacial Cycles
9/1/15
8/31/18
Antarctica
;
Mt Achernar
;
Transantarctic Mountains
Collaborative Research: Multi-nuclide approach to systematically evaluate the scatter in surface exposure ages in Antarctica and to develop consistent alpine glacier chronologies
5/1/11
8/31/15
Antarctica
Collaborative Research: Plestocene East Antarctic Ice Sheet History as Recorded in Sediment Provence and Chronology of High-Elevation TAM Moraines
6/1/10
5/31/14
Antarctica
Collaborative Research: Polynyas, Ice Production & seasonal Evolution in the Ross Sea (PIPERS)
6/15/16
5/31/19
Antarctica
;
Ross Sea
Collaborative Research: Role of Polyoxotungstates in Enhanced Solubility and Transport of Tungsten in the Environment
9/1/13
5/31/17
Antarctica
;
Pine Island Glacier
;
Thwaites Glacier
Collaborative Research: SAM's Contribution to Increased Ocean Heat Content on the Continental Shelf of the Western Antarctic Peninsula
8/15/10
7/31/13
Southern Ocean
;
Antarctica
Collaborative Research: Terrestrial Geological Context for Glacier Change in the Northeast Antarctic Peninsula
7/1/12
6/30/17
Antarctica
Collaborative Research: The impact of stratospheric ozone depletion/recovery on Antarctic climate
1/1/10
4/30/14
Antarctica
;
Southern Ocean
Collaborative Research: Totten Glacier System and the Marine Record of Cryosphere - Ocean Dynamics
9/1/12
8/31/17
Antarctica
;
Totten Glacier
Collaborative Research: West Antarctic Ice Sheet stability, Alpine Glaciation, and Climate Variability: a Terrestrial Perspective from Cosmogenic-nuclide Dating in McMurdo Sound
9/15/13
8/31/17
Antarctica
Deciphering Antarctic Intermediate Water Variability During the Pliocene
12/22/15
6/21/16
Global
;
Antarctica
;
Atlantic Ocean
;
North Atlantic Ocean
Deep Sea-Water Sampler for Improved Co2 Measurements
11/1/14
10/30/18
Antarctica
;
Research Vessels
;
RVIB N. Palmer
Dynamic and Geochemical Evolution of the Lithospheric Mantle Beneath the Western Ross Sea, Antarctica
12/15/10
11/30/15
Southern Ocean
;
Antarctica
FESD Type 1: Pliocene Maximum Sea Level (PLIOMAX): Dynamic Ice Sheet-Earth Response in a Warmer World
9/1/11
8/31/18
Global
;
Antarctica
Gravity for Ice Pod
5/21/15
4/30/19
Antarctica
High Resolution Gravity and Measurements for Operation IceBridge Antarctica Campaigns 2016-2019
3/1/16
12/31/21
Antarctica
History of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet Since the Mid-Miocene: New Evidence from Provenance of Ice-rafted Debris
7/15/10
6/30/14
Antarctica
Ice sheet Dynamics and Processes along the West Antarctic Continental Shelf
6/1/09
5/31/13
Antarctica
;
Southern Ocean
;
Amundsen Sea
Ice Shelf-Ocean Interactions in Antarctica, Enhancing French-US Collaboration to Reduce Uncertainty in Global Sea Level Rise Predictions
9/1/18
8/31/20
Antarctica
;
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
;
Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement
;
France
IceBridge 2012-2015: Gravity and Magnetics
12/13/12
2/29/16
Antarctica
Improved Surface Mass Balance Mapping of Antartica by Quantifying Wind-blown and Sublimated Snow
4/23/14
4/22/18
Antarctica
Innovative Imaging of Changing Ice Sheets in Antarctica
6/18/12
3/31/15
Antarctica
IPY/ASEP Collaborative International Research: Amundsen Sea Influence on West Antarctic Ice Sheet Stability And Sea Level Rise
7/1/07
8/31/12
Antarctica
;
West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Laboratory study of ice deformation under tidal loading conditions with application to Antarctic glaciers
2/1/13
1/31/17
Antarctica
Late Miocene Cycle Stratigraphy from Downhole Logs from IODP Sites U1359 and U 1361, Wilkes Land
1/4/10
1/7/13
Antarctica
LTER Palmer, Antarctica (PAL) Land-Shelf-Ocean Connections, Ecosystem Resilience and Transformation in a Sea-Ice Influenced Pelagic Ecosystem
9/1/14
8/31/20
Antarctica
;
Western Antarctic Peninsula
LTER: Palmer Antarctica LTER: Climate Change, Ecosystem Migration and Telecommunication in an Ice-Dominated Environment
4/1/13
8/31/15
Antarctica
Mapping Antarctic Subglacial Water in Three Dimensions with Novel Electromagnetic Techniques
12/1/17
11/30/20
Antarctica
Molecular Records of Cenozoic Terrestrial Climate Change on Antarctica
Antarctica
NRA/Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences-2009
8/1/10
8/24/13
Antarctica
NSFGEO-NERC: Ice-Shelf Instability Caused by Active Surface Meltwater Production, Movement, Ponding and Hydrofracture
6/1/19
5/31/23
Antarctica
;
George VI Ice Shelf
NSF-NERC: Stability and Instability of Records of External Drivers and Resulting Behavior of Thwaites Glacier
4/1/18
3/31/23
Antarctica
;
Southern Ocean
;
Amundsen Sea
;
Thwaites Glacier
NSFPLR-NERC The Future of the Thwaites Glacier and its Contribution to Sea-Level
4/1/18
3/31/23
Antarctica
;
Thwaites Glacier
NSFPLR-NERC: Ground Geophysics Survey of Thwaites Glacier
4/1/18
2/28/23
Antarctica
;
Thwaites Glacier
NSFPLR-NERC: Processes, Drivers, Predictions: Modeling the Response of Thwaites Glacier Over the Next Century Using Ice/Ocean Coupled Models
4/1/18
3/31/23
Antarctica
Oceanic Response to a Coastal Polynya, Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica
9/1/14
8/31/18
Antarctica
RAPID: High-Resolution Gravity for Thwaites Glacier
8/15/18
7/31/19
Antarctica
;
West Antarctica
;
Thwaites Glacier
MRI-R2: Development of an ice Imaging System for Monitoring Changing Ice Sheets Mounted on the NYANG LC-130
4/1/14
6/30/15
Antarctica
;
Greenland
Resolving CO2 system seasonality in the West Antarctic Peninsula with Autonomous
3/1/17
2/28/18
Antarctica
;
Western Antarctic Peninsula
Resolving CO2 System Seasonality in the West Antarctic Peninsula with Autonomous Observations
7/1/18
6/30/19
Antarctica
;
Southern ocean
Robotic Network for Exploration Under Ice Shelf
12/16/16
12/31/18
Antarctica
;
Dotson ice shelf, West Antarctica
Satellite Observations and Modelling of Surface Meltwater Flow and its Impact on Ice
8/1/18
7/31/22
Antarctica
Scoping for Interdisciplinary Coordinated Experiment of the Southern Ocean Carbon Cycle (ICESOCC)
2/1/14
7/31/16
Antarctica
;
Southern Ocean
Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Recovery and Antarctic Climate Change
4/1/14
3/31/17
Antarctica
;
Southern Ocean
Subglacial drainage and slip modeling in Antarctica: relating lakes to ice discharge
3/1/11
2/29/16
Antarctica
Subglacial Lakes and the Onset of Ice Streaming: Recovery Lakes
11/1/08
10/31/12
Antarctica
Surface Water pCO2 Measurements from ships
9/1/13
8/31/20
Antarctica
;
RVIB N. Palmer
Surface Water pCO2 measurements from Ships
10/1/15
8/31/19
Antarctica
;
Research Vessels
;
RVIB N. Palmer
The Seasonal Cycle of Export Production in an Antarctic Coastal Marine Ecosystem
4/1/12
5/31/15
Antarctica
The Smallest among the Small: Exploring the Diversity and Ecology of Marine UltraMicroBacteria (MarUMBa)
1/1/19
3/31/21
Antarctica
Understanding the Integrity of Deep Ice in Antarctica from Geophysical Data Sets and Physical Models
3/1/17
2/27/22
Antarctica
U-Series Disequilibrium in Weddell Sea Sediments: Rates of Iceberg Discharge and Impact on Global Oceans
12/1/10
11/30/13
Antarctica
Vulnerability of East Antarctic ice streams to warm ocean water incursions
7/1/13
6/30/17
Antarctica
;
Southern Ocean
;
East Antarctica
West Antarctic Ice Shelf- Ocean Bathymetry Interactions
7/15/18
6/30/20
Antarctica
;
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
West Antartctic Ice Shelf - Ocean Interactions
4/1/18
3/31/20
Antarctica
;
West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Workshop on Antarctic Surface Hydrology and Future Ice-shelf Stability
7/15/17
12/31/18
Antarctica
Integration of Satellite and In-Situ Observations to Investigate the Evolution of High Salinity Shelf Water in the Terra Nova Bay polynya, Antarctica
9/1/19
8/31/21
Antarctica
;
Terra Nova Bay Polynya
Supporting Antarctic Research with Ongoing Operations and Development of the USAP-DC Project Catalog and Data Repository
12/1/19
11/30/22
Antarctica
Understanding Firn Rheology Through Laboratory Compaction Experiments and Radar Data
4/1/20
3/31/23
Antarctica
SLICE: Spectral Signs of Life in Ice
4/20/18
4/19/22
Antarctica
;
Arctic
Collaborative Research: Building Geologically Informed Bed Classes to Improve Projections of Ice Sheet Change
8/15/20
7/31/23
Antarctica
;
Amundsen Sea
;
Thwaites Glacier
Collaborative Research: EAGER: Development of a Method for Paired Potassium/Argon Geochronology and Strontium-Neodymium-Lead Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry of Dust in Ice Cores
8/15/20
7/31/22
Antarctica
;
Southern Ocean
Collaborative Research: Management and Implementation of US GEOTRACES GP17 Section: Amundsen Sea Sector of the Antarctic Continental Margin (GP17-ANT)
1/1/21
12/31/23
Antarctica
;
Amundsen Sea
Collaborative Research: Reconstructing Temperatures During the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period in the McMurdo Dry Valleys with Cosmogenic Noble Gases
8/15/20
7/31/23
Antarctica
;
McMurdo Dry Valleys
Collaborative Research: Uncovering the Ross Ocean and Ice Shelf Environment and Tectonic setting Through Aerogeophysical Surveys and Modeling (ROSETTA-ICE)
9/9/16
8/31/19
Antarctica
;
Ross Ice Shelf
Pan-Antarctic Assessment of Sedimentary Basins and the Onset of Streaming Ice Flow from Machine Learning and Aerogravity Regression Analyses
9/1/21
8/31/23
Antarctica
Collaborative Research: EAGER: Generation of High Resolution Surface Melting Maps overAntarctica using Regional Climate Models, Remote Sensing and Machine Learning
1/1/22
12/31/23
North America
;
Antarctica
;
Greenland
Continuing Operations Proposal: The United States Polar Rock Repository as a Research Tool forUnderstanding Antarctica's Geological Evolution
5/1/21
3/31/22
Antarctica
OPP-PRF Investigating the Influence of Ocean Temperature on Antarctic Ice Sheet Evolution during the Early to Middle Pleistocene
10/1/21
9/30/23
Antarctica
Collaborative Research: Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2º Celsius (SWAIS 2C)
9/15/21
8/31/25
Antarctica
Collaborative Research: Linking Marine and Terrestrial Sedimentary Evidence for Plio-PleistoceneVariability of Weddell Embayment and Antarctic Peninsula Glaciation
9/1/21
8/31/24
Antarctica
Collaborative Research: Snow Transport in Katabatic Winds and Implications for the Antarctic Surface Mass Balance: Observations, Theory, and Numerical Modeling
9/1/21
8/31/24
Antarctica
COMBINED: Channelized Ocean Melting Beneath Ice shelves: Nonhydrostatic Ice and Estimating shelf Densities
1/1/22
12/31/24
Antarctica
Collaborative Research: Imaging the 3D Viscosity Structure of the Antarctic Mantle with ExistingObservations from GPS and Relative Sea Level
2/15/22
1/31/25
Antarctica