[Aqualist] Ice Core Research Seminars in New Zealand

[Tim Barrows]

From: Brent Alloway <B.Alloway at gns.cri.nz>

Dear colleague

Early November we are planning to recover a first ice core from Tasman
Glacier for climate proxy analysis. This ice core drilling is in
collaboration with the Climate Change Institute of the University of Maine
(www.climatechange.umaine.edu). Paul Mayewski, the director of this 
institute, will give several talks
on ice core research on this visit to New Zealand (see schedule below).
Everybody is welcome to attend these seminars. Please make this
information available to other interested researchers you know. For more 
information contact Uwe Morgenstern (u.morgenstern at gns.cri.nz)

Best regards,
Uwe Morgenstern (Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences, Gracefield
Research Centre)

When: Thursday, 30 October, 3pm
Where: Rafter lecture theatre at Rafter Research Centre, 30 Gracefield
Rd., Lower Hutt, NZ
Topic: Rapid Climate Change


When: Friday, 31 October, 4pm
Where: Conference room at Antarctica New Zealand (next to the Antarctic
Visitor Centre), Christchurch, NZ
Topic: The International Trans Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE)


When: Saturday, 1 November, 4pm
Where: Lecture theatre at Aoraki/Mt Cook Visitor Centre, Mount Cook
village, NZ
Topic: The International Trans Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE)


Rapid Climate Change - An overview of the central Greenland ice core 
activities that led to
the last decade of research on rapid climate
change events. The talk will include a description of the collection and
analysis of the core recovered to bedrock by the Greenland Ice Sheet
Project Two (GISP2). It will also include detailed interpretation
(environmental reconstruction and forcing) of the last 110,000 years of
the record with emphasis on the glacial age section, the Holocene, the
last few hundred years, and related studies. Paul was the founder and
Chief
Scientist for GISP2.

The International Trans Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE) is 
comprised of 20 nations under the auspices of the Scientific Committee
and the International Geosphere Biosphere Project.  Paul will describe the
general framework for the program with emphasis on the significance of
Antarctica in the global climate system, followed by details concerning
the logistics and scientific implications of the 1999-2003 US contribution
to ITASE. US ITASE completed the first multi-disciplinary scientific
traverse from central West Antarctica to South Pole last January. Paul is
the Chair of ITASE and the Field Leader/ Chief Scientist for US ITASE.