What lies beneath? Interdisciplinary outcomes of the ANDRILL
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TitleWhat lies beneath? Interdisciplinary outcomes of the ANDRILL Coulman high project site surveys on the Ross Ice ShelfAbstractExtensive field operations were conducted on the northwestern Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica from November 2010 through January 2011. A significant amount of equipment, supplies, and people safely traversed from McMurdo Station to establish a series of combined United States-New Zealand field camps at locations northeast of Ross Island. The ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing) hot water drill system was used to melt multiple access holes through the ice shelf at each site to deploy a variety of sediment coring tools, cameras, and oceanographic instruments, as well as a remotely operated vehicle to characterize the ice shelf and sub-ice environment. These studies will contribute to future proposed geological drilling as part of the ANDRILL Coulman High Project. Copyright 2012 by The Oceanography Society.AcknowledgementsThis work is funded by US NSF-OPP Grant ANT-0838914 and by the NZ Foundation for Research, Science and Technology. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. We thank Steven Fischbein for his assistance with drafting figures for this contribution. We are grateful for the support wevÌe received from both the US Antarctic Program and Antarctica New Zealand, and for the field use of shared ANDRILL consortium equipment. The figures in this manuscript are courtesy of the ANDRILL Science Management Office, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
TypeArticleCitationRack, F., Zook, R., Levy, R., Limeburner, R., Stewart, C., Williams, M. and Luyendyk, B. (2012) What lies beneath? Interdisciplinary outcomes of the ANDRILL Coulman high project site surveys on the Ross Ice Shelf. Oceanography, 25(3): 84-89 doi:10.5670/oceanog.2012.79 IdentifierRack2012Relevancerank5
