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

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

2 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

3 19802004 --after Dastidar and Ramachandran, 2008 Multinational Antarctic research papers, 1980-2004

4 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

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

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

7 PoleNet Greenland and Antarctica

8 ITASE: International Trans- Antarctic Scientific Expedition

9 Antarctic Continental Margin Stratigraphic Drilling Germany Italy NZ UK USA

10 Concordiasi science payload, McMurdo France -USA study of climate

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

12 Australian Airbus A319 on sea ice runway, McMurdo, Antarctica

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

14 Swedish icebreaker Oden in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

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

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