Recent Developments: February 2018: Carolyn Branecky Begeman and Sarah Neuhaus present new observations of ice-ocean interactions at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Portland, Oregon. December 2017: We're bringing some new research to the AGU Fall Meeting in New Orleans! Slawek M Tulaczyk C21E-1159 The Holocene Minimum of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: Radiocarbon Model Ages for Subglacial Sediments Sarah Neuhaus C12A-04 Quantifying iceberg evolution in a temperate fjord Neil Foley C23C-1229 Thin, Conductive Permafrost Surrounding Lake Fryxell Indicates Salts From Past Lakes, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica Catherine G Barcheck C32A-03 Patterned basal seismicity shows sub-ice stream bedforms Carolyn Branecky Begeman C51B-0969 Ocean stratification reduces melt rates at the grounding zone of the Ross Ice Shelf December 2016: The Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project has come to completion. Check out the science at wissard.org. December 2016: Grace Barcheck, Neil Foley, and Carolyn Branecky presented their research at the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting.  WISSARD findings Subglacial Lake Whillans exploration - New York Times What lives in Antarctic subglacial lakes? - NBC news Learn how the WISSARD project was impacted by the 2013 government shutdown. Shutdown wasting years of Antarctic research - Discovery News Check out some of the work that Grace collaborated on: Volcano under Antarctic Ice - NBC news |