Description
Ryan Bay, IceCube, UC-Berkeley 20 mins
Kenny Matsuoka, Norwegian Polar Institute 20 mins
Jeff Severinghaus, COAP, UC-San Diego 20 mins
Panel discussion with the 3 speakers 30 mins
Dr
Ryan Bay
(UC Berkeley)
27/04/2011, 16:30
Logging and Remote Sensing
While the AMANDA and IceCube experiments have opened a new window on the universe, their use of hot water drills has also opened unique research opportunities by providing recurrent passage to the deep South Pole ice sheet. I will overview how this "fast access" drilling has led to advances in glaciology, climatology, material science and technology development.
Jeff Severinghaus
(University of California at San Diego)
27/04/2011, 17:10
Logging and Remote Sensing
Several "big" questions include: (1) Did the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse 125,000 years ago, a time when our climate was several degrees warmer than today? and
(2) Why did Earth's ice ages oscillate within a 41,000-year period between 1.5- and 1.3-million years ago?
These questions require multiple access holes to the deep ice, to map the spatial dimension in a rapid-access mode that...
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
(Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)
27/04/2011, 17:30
Logging and Remote Sensing
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