Climate Change Institute

Late Quaternary History of Reedy Glacier, Antarctica Brenda Hall, Gordon Bromley (UMaine) Claire Todd, John Stone, Howard Conway, and Maurice Conway (UWashington) November 18, 2003 to January 1, 2004 We will reconstruct the level of Reedy Glacier, in the far southern Transantarctic Mountains, from the LGM (Last Glacial Maximum) through to the present day. Because […]

Ice Cores from the Dry Valleys of Antarctica Karl Kreutz, Bruce Williamson, Erich Osterberg October 18, 2003 to December 10, 2003 The goals of this project are to collect and develop high-resolution ice core records from the Dry Valleys region of Antarctica, and provide interpretations of interannual to decadal-scale climate variability during the last 2000 […]

Ice Cores from South Island, New Zealand Paul Meyewski and Andrei Kurbatov, UMaine Uwe Morgenstern, Institute of Geology and Nuclear Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand October 27, 2003 to November 17, 2003 Paul and Andrei are collecting ice cores from the Tasman Glacier, South Island New Zealand. These cores will help extend our knowledge of the […]

Ice Cores from Central Tibet Shichang Kang and Susan Kaspari in Tibet September 4, 2003 to October 23, 2003     This is the third year we have sent an expedition to Tibet collecting ice cores from the high mountain glaciers. Shichang Kang, (left) Research Associtate of the Institute and member of the Cold and […]

Fluctuations of Dry Valleys Lakes, Antarctica Brenda Hall, Thomas Whittaker, Katie Faloon and Alex Roy, University of Maine John Stone, Howard Conway and Maurice Conway, University of Washington December 15, 2003 to February 10, 2003   The lakes in the Dry Valleys are closed basin lakes. That is, they have no present outlet to the […]