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Antarctic Geology and Geophysics Links:
Funding Opportunities
Office of Polar Programs (OPP) National Science Foundation (NSF) This NSF program manages the United States Antarctic Program and invites scientists at U.S. institutions to submit proposals to perform research in Antarctica and/or to perform related research and data analysis in the United States.European Science Foundation A limited number of research fellowships, mainly to support visits directly relevant to the scientific programme or network and from one European country to another, are available.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) This NASA page offers links to research opportunities in Earth Sciences. These include: Announcements of Opportunity, Research Announcements, Cooperative Agreement Notices and NASA Announcements.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) The West Coast & Polar Regions Undersea Research Center supports highly-rated, peer-reviewed proposals to conduct in situ research in the region offshore California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, the Arctic and Antarctic.
Geological Society of America The primary role of the GSA research grants program is to provide partial support of master's and doctoral thesis research in geological sciences for graduate students at universities in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America.
American Geophysical Union The AGU principally administers awards that cover data reduction and rock property investigations.
International Funding Opportunities
British National Environmental Research Council The NERC Administers Antarctic research under the auspices of the British Antarctic Survey.Australian Antarctic Program The Australian Antarctic Program
Canadian Antarctic Program
Italian Antarctic Program
The Antarctica New Zealand Research Program mission is to "Advance knowledge, appreciation and conservation, of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, for the benefit of New Zealand and the world community, through leadership, partnership, and involvement in high quality Antarctica related activities.
Alfred -Wegener Institute Polar and Marine research are central themes of Global system and Environmental Science. The Alfred Wegener Institute conducts research in the Arctic, the Antarctic and at temperate latitudes. It coordinates Polar research in Germany and provides both the necessary equipment and the essential logistic back up for polar expeditions. Recent additional research themes include North Sea Research, contributions to Marine Biological Monitoring, Marine Pollution Research, Investigation of naturally occuring marine substances and technical marine developments.
Geology Departments involved in Antarctic Research
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT THE PAGE AUTHOR TO ADD YOUR CENTER OF LEARNINGThe Ohio State Department of Geological Sciences works collaboratively with the Byrd Polar Research Center furthering investigation of polar geology. A broad cross-section of the department includes specialist in structural geology, GPS measurements of rebound, petrology, palynological studies, remote sensing, polar oceanography and sedimentology.
Center for Geophysical Studies of Ice and Climate CEGSIC, located in the Physics Department at St. Olaf College, is a research project focused toward understanding the response of the world's ice masses to global change. More specifically, CEGSIC utilizes the tools of ice-penetrating radar and satellite
imagery to study the dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets in various parts of the world.
The Universitry of Maine The Institute for Quaternary and Climate Studies conducts interdisciplinary research and graduate education with focus on the functioning of the natural world during the Quaternary Period, approximately the past 2.6 millon years of earth history. Research addresses the timing, causes, and mechanisms of natural climate change, and on the effects of climate change on the physical, biological, chemical, social, and economic conditions of the past, and relationship of between natural and humanly forced changes in climate for purposes of better prediction of climate change. Including historically-orientated interdisciplinary studies on climate fluctuations, glaciations, archeology, paleooceanography, glaciology, chemistry of the atmosphere, sea level changes and shifts in distributions of organisms. .
Hamilton College Undergraduate Research in Antarctica This program enables undergraduate students from institutions across the country to become involved in Antarctic scientific work aboard the United States' Antarctic Program's research vessels. The site contains information about current research and past projects conducted by undergraduates.
Educational Links about Antarctica
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) The NASA page offers links to areas including space exploration, understanding Earth's systems, astronomy, meteorology, space technology, remote sensing and imagery of Earth from space.
Discovery Channel Online Watch the size of the ice in Antarctica increase and decrease as the month of the year changes.
Glacier Educational Site at Rice University provides an excellent outreach site for all things glacial.
Integrated Earth Information Server of the National Science Foundation. Geosciences. Integrated Earth Information Server (IEIS) built on the infrastructure provided by the nation-wide Unidata Internet Data Distribution (IDD) network, in which participating universities are establishing information servers containing a range of earth-related data. Information available includes: current electronic weather maps and bulletins; oceanographic, seismic, and other environmental information; instructional materials to complement the data.
Antarctic Imagery Links
Global Land Ice Monitoring from Space (GLIMS) This is the introduction page for the ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and reflection Radiometer) instrument aboard the EOS-AM1 spacecraft, which has been operating succesfully since 1999.
Antarctica DEM and AVHRR Stereo Images (USGS)
Satellite Image Map of Antarctica Using Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Images (USGS). This sites currently features remotely sensed images of Antarctica, and information about how the image data were gathered, processed, and used to create the US Geological Survey's recently published Satellite Image Map of Antarctica.
Antarctic DEM from RADARSAT information from RADARSAT is available through this data center.
Antarctic Volcanic and Seismic Links
Mount Erebus Observatory Homepage - New Mexico Tech Geophysics and Geochemistry, in association with the University of Wellington, New Zealand, operate the NSF-funded Mount Erebus Observatory, which provides seismic and geochemical monitoring of the world's southernmost active volcano.
Volcano World Brings modern and near real time volcano information to specific target audiences and other users of the Internet. VolcanoWorld draws extensively on remote sensing images (AVHRR, Landsat TM, Magellan, Gloria, etc.) and other data collections. Supported by NASA's Program: Public Use of Earth and Space Science Data Over the Internet. Includes Index (images and information) of Volcanoes in Antarctica.
Progress Bransfield Straight CruiseThe neotectonic evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula and Scotia Sea is extremely complex. Understanding the recent evolution of the Drake-Scotia-Antarcticia-South America plate intersections will provide important information as to how major plate boundaries reorganize after demise of a long-lived spreading center and the consequential reduction in the number of plates. The plate reorganization probably resulted in the uplift of the Shackleton Ridge which may have effected the sedimentary patterns in both the Scotia Sea and possibly the Weddell Sea. If the break of the Shackleton transform fault can be traced with multibeam and sidescan sonar as it intersects the southern end of South America then the orientation and geometry of the faults, fractures and deformation as the transform fault intersects the South American continent will help to interpret the structures in that complex region.
Antarctic Seismic Data Library System for Cooperative Research (SDLS) The Antarctic Seismic Data Library System provides open access worldwide to Antarctic multichannel seismic-reflection data collected by many countries to study the structure of the earth's crust of Antarctica. This page provides links to answers for many common questions about the SDLS, and how the library system can be used by all researchers.
Current and Recent Antarctic Geo-Project Links
ANDRILL: Stratigraphic Drilling for Climatic and Tectonic History in Antarctica. ANDRILL (ANtarctic DRILLing) is a multinational initiative to investigate Antarctica's role in Cenozoic-Recent global environmental change through stratigraphic drilling for Antarctic climatic, volcanic and tectonic history.
The Cape Roberts Project The Cape Roberts Project is a cooperative venture between scientists, administrators and Antarctic support personnel from 7 countries - Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand and the United States of America. It was set up to investigate the early history of the East Antarctic ice sheet and the West Antarctic Rift System by coring sedimentary strata at 77º south, at the edge of the present ice sheet and close to the Transantarctic Mountains. The project was developed in 1993 from earlier drilling on the fast ice in McMurdo Sound.
The TAMDEF Project The TransAntarctic Mountains DEFormation project is a joint USGS and OSU program to measure crustal motion in the Transantarctic Mountains of Southern Victoria Land. High precision GPS has been used to measure low rates of horizontal and vertical motion. (SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
The TAMSEIS Project is evaluating geodynamic models for the tectonic development of Antarctica by investigating crust and upper mantle structure beneath the East-West Antarctic boundary. This experiment uses a focused broadband seismograph deployment to address two outstanding problems concerning the tectonic development of the Antarctic continent.
1. What is the origin of the Transantarctic Mountains. Even though the Transantarctic Mountains are widely considered a classic example of rift flank uplift, there appears to be little consensus about the exact uplift mechanism.
2.The structure of the East Antarctic Craton. East Antarctica displays the greatest modal elevation of any major cratonic block when corrected for glacial loading. The anomalous elevation of East Antarctica may have been an important factor in the onset of continental glaciation. However, the support mechanism for this anomalous topography is unknown; possible models include isostatic uplift from (a) thickened crust, (b) anomalously depleted upper mantle, and (c) thermally modified upper mantle, as well as dynamic uplift. The lateral extent of the very old continental lithosphere is also uncertain. In particular, it is unknown whether the old lithosphere extends to the western edge of East Antarctica beneath the crustal rocks deformed during the Ross Orogeny.
The ANSMET Project The Antarctic Search for Meteorites program (ANSMET), funded by the Office of Polar Programs of the National Science Foundation, has recovered more than 10,000 specimens from meteorite stranding surfaces along the Transantarctic Mountains. The ANSMET specimens are currently the only reliable, continuous source of new, non-microscopic extraterrestrial material, and will continue to be until future planetary sample-return missions are successful. The samples already recovered provide essential "ground-truth" concerning the materials that make up the asteroids, planets and other bodies of our solar system, and their continued retrieval is the cheapest and only guaranteed way to recover new things from worlds beyond the Earth. The study of ANSMET meteorites has greatly extended our knowledge of the materials and conditions in the primeval nebula from which our solar system was born, revealed the complex and exotic geologic nature of asteroids, and proved, against the conventional wisdom, that some specimens represent planetary materials, delivered to us from the Moon and Mars, free of charge.
Other Antarctic Working Groups
The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Homepage. The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is an inter-disciplinary committee of the International Council for Science (ICSU). SCAR is charged with the initiation, promotion and coordination of scientific research in Antarctica. It also provides scientific advice to the Antarctic Treaty System.
ANTEC Group The SCAR Group of Specialists on Antarctic Neotectonics web page. In light of current development of new technologies that are making possible new studies in geodynamics and neotectonics, SCAR delegates at XXV SCAR (in Concepcion, Chile, July 1998) approved a new Group of Specialists on Antarctic Neotectonics. The ANTEC GoS aims to help to promote and coordinate multidisciplinary research relevant to Antarctic neotectonics. The goal of the ANTEC program is to improve understanding of the unique character of the neotectonic regime of the Antarctic plate.
SCAR GLOCHANT now forms a network of multidisciplinary research programmes, which have developed experties on:
Subglacial Antarctic Lake Exploration (SALE) The Website of the SCAR-SALE working group.
Other Useful Links
The Alaska SAR Facility (ASF) The ASF's primary mission is to acquire, process, archive, and distribute satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data for the U.S. government and research communities. We are involved in a wide range of activities, from planning data acquisitions to calibrating our SAR processor's output, from developing SAR data analysis tools to hosting SAR-related workshops. ASF is housed within the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and is primarily funded through NASA's Earth Observing System.
The McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER project is an interdisciplinary study of the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in a cold desert region of Antarctica. In 1992 this area was selected as a study site within the National Science Foundation's Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) Program.
Ice and Climate Division of the British Antarctic Survey. The aim of the research undertaken by the Ice and Climate Division is to understand the present behaviour of the ice-atmosphere-ocean system in Antarctica and its evolution in the past, and to use this knowledge to predict future behaviour.
Snow Crystal Research Images of snow crystals from research done at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Maryland.
United States Geological Survey (USGS) The mission of the USGS is to provide geologic, topographic, and hydrologic information that contributes to the wise management of the Nation's natural resources and that promotes the health, safety, and well-being of the people. This information consists of maps, databases, and descriptions and analyses of the water, energy, and mineral resources, land surface, underlying geologic structure, natural hazards, and dynamic processes of the earth.
United States component of the International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition USITASE. Because of the remoteness of the continent, Antarctica is an ideal location to monitor biogeochemical cycles and local-to-global scale climate change. The international team of researchers will acquire short ice cores in transects across the Antarctic Ice Sheet to address two key scientific objectives: 1) to determine the spatial variability of Antarctic climate over the last 200 to 1000 years; and 2) to determine the environmental variability in Antarctica over the last 200 to 1000 years.
University of Texas Department of Geography This site contains information about mapping (projections, etc.) and mapping technology (GPS), as well as information to enhance web-browsing skills. Two links to check: The Geographers Craft and Global Positioning System Overview (includes links to map projection information).
USGS Ask-A-Geologist The United States Geological Survey's "Ask A Geologist" program allows you to contact USGS staff by email and get your questions answered.
Raytheon Polar Services - General information was formed to specifically meet the needs of the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs. We are a single, dedicated, multi-resource organization with the support of the $20 billion, 100,000-employee Raytheon Company of which we are a part. We have assembled an exceedingly qualified and experienced management team to lead our performance on NSF's Science, Operations and Maintenance Support contract of the United States Antarctic Program.
Institute of Crustal Studies UCSB Information about current earthquake activity in Northern California, recent seismic activity, earthquake preparedness, resources for teachers, frequently asked questions, etc.
USGS Earthquake Site Latest earth quake information, studying earthquakes, hazards and preparedness, etc. compiled by the United States Geological Survey.
USGS Geologic Division WWW Site This page lists the United States Geological Survey servers that focus on geology topics such as hazards, resources, and geologic and geophysical information.
University of California at Berkeley Seismographic Station
the Seismological Laboratory is involved in a number of projects in geophysical monitoring ( Berkeley Digital Seismic Network, Hayward Fault Digital Network, and the Bay Area Regional Deformation Network), earthquake information dissemination ( Rapid Earthquake Data Integration Project, Northern California Earthquake Data Center)and education and outreach ( Interactive University Project). In addition to these projects, the Seismological Laboratory has an active research program in local, regional, and global seismological problems.
University of Washington Internet site list of earthquake data, connections to original seismic data or seismic research information.