Australian Antarctic Division
glaciology program head Ian Allison said sea ice losses in west Antarctica over the past 30 years had been more than offset by increases in the Ross Sea region, just one sector of east Antarctica.
«The WAIS Divide ice core allows us to identify each of the past 30,000 years of snowfall in individual layers of ice, thus enabling detailed examination of conditions during deglaciation,» said Paul Cutler, NSF Polar Programs»
glaciology program manager.
Not exact matches
As of 2016, USAP - DC is partnered with the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) to manage
glaciology data for the US Antarctic
Program.
«We're doing about the most we can do right now to study the possible collapse of the west ice sheet,» said Dr. Richard Cameron, NSF
program manager for
glaciology.