Ice Cores from the upper Tasman Glacier, New Zealand Paul Mayewski, Andrei Kurbatov, Sharon Sneed, and Susan Kaspari, UMaine Use Morgenstern, Julian Thomson, Institute of Geology and Nuclear Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand Shichang Kang and Zinsheng Gao, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Lisa Taylor, Dino Congonidis and Mike Ellis, Stonehaven Productions, […]
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Late-Glacial Chronology of Moraines in East Greenland Thomas Lowell (University of Cincinnatti) Meredith Kelly (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) Brenda Hall (University of Maine) August 14, 2004 to August 31, 2004 After the successful mission of the Turmoilto Scoresby Sund, eastern Greenland, in 2003 it was decided that shock troops were needed on the ground to verify […]
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North Maine Woods Expeditions Bertrand Pelletier (University of Maine) June and July, 2004 June: The primary objectives for the month of June were logistical in nature. The North Maine Woods are a 3 million acre working forest that has multiple land owners. It is necessary to obtain permissions from landowners in order to […]
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Collecting Live Blue Mussels, Greenland: Aquaculture Based Calibration in Greenland Karl Kreutz, Hal Borns, Doug ‘Cap’ Introne, Alan Wanamaker, Zach von Hassein, University of Maine Svend Funder, Copenhagen July 10, 2004 to July 18, 2004 We are traveling to western Greenland (Kangerlussuaq and Sisimuit) to collect live blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) and other bivalves, […]
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Land and Sea Level Changes in Ireland Joseph Kelly and Daniel Belknap, University of Maine Sam Kelley, Undergraduate Student Andrew Cooper, University of Ulster June 16, 2004 to June 27, 2004 We will be studying land/sea level change in Ireland during the late Quaternary. We will collect cores offshore of Giants Causeway in […]
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Archaeological Excavation – Alca, Peru Dan Sandweiss and Kurt Rademaker, CCI James Hagerman, Ben Morris and Louis Fortin, University of Maine Michael Malpass (Ithaca College) Adan Umire, Oswaldo Chozo May 10, 2004 to June 19, 2004 Monday May 10 – Most of the team left Bangor early this morning and arrived here in Lima, the […]
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Glacial History and climate reconstruction from the South Island, New Zealand George Denton, Marcus Vandergoes January 1, 2004 to February 28, 2004 The goals of this project are to produce detailed reconstructions of glacier history and climate change during the last 30,000 years (Late Quaternary). Mapping of glacial deposits to […]
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Dynamics of the Blue Ice Regions in Antarctica Andrei Kurbatov, Leigh Stearns, Vandy Blue Spikes John Moore, University of Lapland January 10, 2004 to February 20, 2004 An earlier award to Drs. G. Zielinski (UMaine) and N. Dunbar (New Mexico Tech) resulted in the collection of ‘horizontal ice core’ at the Mount Moulton blue ice […]
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