Polar Services - Antarctic - Meta-Data Summaries (2010/11 Season) - G-049 Rack ANDRILL

Data Set Name:
G049 Rack 2010-11

Investigator:
PI: Dr Frank Rack
Institution: University of Nebraska
POC: Darren Blythe
Email: dblytheandrill.org

Data Type:
GPS Continuous

Dates:
10/20/2010 - 1/15/2012

Location:
Name: Ross Ice Shelf - Coulman High
Coordinates: 77 29.22 S  171 34.02 E  
Radius: 5 km

Data Center:
Name: UNAVCO
URL: www.unavco.org
Email: archive-gpsunavco.org
Phone: 303-381-7500

Summary: In a multiyear effort the ANDRILL project is seeking to investigate Antarctica's role in Cenozoic global environmental change. Taking deep cores through the Ross Ice Shelf, the team is able to obtain direct reference records of two stratigraphic intervals from the Antarctic continental shelf: the early Miocene and Oligocene, and the Eocene to possibly Cretaceous.

Moving this year to the Coulman High region, ANDRILL has requested long term GPS coverage in order to quantify tidal and other significant movements of the Ross Ice Shelf in anticipation of the next drilling phase. UNAVCO provided one wintering continuously operating GPS system with Iridium Comms (DRIL) and three summer only systems. UNAVCO field engineers assisted with the deployment of the wintering system.

Last modified: 2019-12-24  02:12:33  America/Denver