International collaboration in the Antarctic for global science Dr. Karl Erb Director Office of Polar Programs National Science Foundation (USA)

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International collaboration in the Antarctic for global science Dr. Karl Erb Director Office of Polar Programs National Science Foundation (USA)

Russian/U.S. Weddell Sea expeditions 1981: Soviet icebreaker; 13 USA and 13 USSR scientists 1992: Russian and U.S. icebreakers; camp on sea ice; 17 USA and 15 Russian scientists

after Dastidar and Ramachandran, 2008 Multinational Antarctic research papers,

Antarctic Ice Sheet Drainage Siple Coast Ice Streams Pine Island/Thwaites Glacier Drainage Aka Amundsen Sea Embayment Province of WAIS Byrd Glacier Drainage Lambert Glacier/Amery Ice Shelf Drainage East Antarctic Ice Stream Province Mertz Glacier Drainage China - PANDA US-AGAP US-ASEP

Location of first ice sheet (~34 million years ago) Tectonic enigma Potentially very old ice USA, UK, Russia, Germany, China, Australia

Argentina Belgium Korea Ukraine United States Larsen Ice Shelf breakup, 2002 Larsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica (LARISSA) project

PoleNet Greenland and Antarctica

ITASE: International Trans- Antarctic Scientific Expedition

Antarctic Continental Margin Stratigraphic Drilling Germany Italy NZ UK USA

Concordiasi science payload, McMurdo France -USA study of climate

Concordia: Italian and French station at Dome C, East Antarctica

Australian Airbus A319 on sea ice runway, McMurdo, Antarctica

LC-130 (ski-equipped) N.Z. Air Force C-130 on ice runway, McMurdo (wheels only)

Swedish icebreaker Oden in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

National flags of the original Antarctic Treaty signatories Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, U.S. Antarctic Program