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Collaborative Research: Antarctic Climate Reconstruction Utilizing The Us Itase Ice Core Array (2009- 2012), Paul Mayewski, Kirk A. Maasch, Andrei V. Kurbatov

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

This award supports a project to reconstruct the past physical and chemical climate of Antarctica, with an emphasis on the region surrounding the Ross Sea Embayment, using >60 ice cores collected in this region by US ITASE and by Australian, Brazilian, Chilean, and New Zealand ITASE teams. The ice core records are annually resolved and exceptionally well dated, and will provide, through the analyses of stable isotopes, major soluble ions and for some trace elements, instrumentally calibrated proxies for past temperature, precipitation, atmospheric circulation, chemistry of the atmosphere, sea ice extent, and volcanic activity. These records will be used to …