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Robert M. Mckay
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Late Miocene to Pleistocene lithostratigraphic changes from IODP Site U1522 on the Ross Sea Continental Shelf
CONTRIBUTIONS OF SCIENTIFIC OCEAN DRILLING TO UNDERSTANDING EARTH SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND EARTH SYSTEMS HISTORY AT HIGH LATITUDES I POSTER
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 12 december 2023
Kniya Duncan, Halima Ibrahim, Jack McLaughlin, Jen...
In 2018 the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 374 recovered a Upper Miocene to recent geological record from the Glomar Challeng...
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The Role of the Ice Sheet Dynamics and Ocean Circulation in Nutrient Supply and Diatom Productivity during the Miocene Climatic Optimum in the Ross Sea, Antarctica: Evidence from IODP Site U1521
CONTRIBUTIONS OF SCIENTIFIC OCEAN DRILLING TO UNDERSTANDING EARTH SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND EARTH SYSTEMS HISTORY AT HIGH LATITUDES II ORAL
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 12 december 2023
Maria Eleni Christopoulou, Justin P. Dodd, Lucie C...
Diatom productivity and nutrient supply in the Southern Ocean have long been recognized as drivers of the global carbon cycle and climate dynamics. Ho...
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Testing the Application of Multivariate Modeling of Glaciomarine Lithostratigraphy and its Utility for Developing Astronomical Tuned Age Models: IODP U1525 and U1524
ADVANCING PALEOCLIMATOLOGY BY COMBINING DATA, MODELS, AND THEORY III POSTER
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 11 december 2023
Halima Ibrahim, Molly Patterson, Denise K. Kulhane...
Glaciomarine sedimentary records provide insight into past ocean-ice interactions under various boundary conditions. Lithofacies analysis on these rec...
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East Antarctic Ice Sheet variability during the middle Miocene Climate Transition captured in drill cores from the Friis Hills, Transantarctic Mountains.
PAST CLIMATE CHANGE IN EARTH'S POLAR REGIONS: LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE III ORAL
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 16 december 2022
Richard H. Levy, Hannah Chorley, Tim Naish, Adam R...
A recently recovered drill core record from a sedimentary sequence in the Friis Hills, East Antarctica, offers rare insight into terrestrial environme...
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Eccentricity modulation of East Antarctic Ice Sheet in Wilkes Land over the past 6 million years
PAST CLIMATE CHANGE IN EARTH'S POLAR REGIONS: LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE II POSTER
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 16 december 2022
Robert M. Mckay, Molly Patterson, Georgia R. Grant...
During past warm intervals of the Pliocene to Pleistocene, global sea levels are proposed to have been up to 20-30 m higher than present, inferring lo...
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Antarctic Ice Sheet growth during the Miocene Climatic Optimum
LINKING GLACIOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS TO PALEO ARCHIVES FROM SUBGLACIAL TO MARINE ENVIRONMENTS I ORAL
cryosphere | 15 december 2022
Imogen M. Browne, Amelia Shevenell, R Mark M. Leck...
Antarcticas ice volume was reduced relative to modern during the Miocene Climatic Optimum (MCO; ~17-14.5 million years ago; Ma), the warmest climate i...
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The astronomical evolution of Antarctica's ice sheets
LINKING GLACIOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS TO PALEO ARCHIVES FROM SUBGLACIAL TO MARINE ENVIRONMENTS III POSTER
cryosphere | 15 december 2022
Nicholas B. Sullivan, Stephen R. Meyers, Richard H...
Fundamental questions exist about the mechanisms driving Antarctic Ice Sheet growth and decay during the late Cenozoic. A key challenge has been resol...
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Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) Formation History in the Ross Sea: Insights from the Pliocene-Pleistocene record at IODP Site U1524
LINKING GLACIOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS TO PALEO ARCHIVES FROM SUBGLACIAL TO MARINE ENVIRONMENTS I ORAL
cryosphere | 15 december 2022
Natalia Varela, Brian Romans, Zoltan Sylvester, Mo...
The Ross Sea is one of the main producers of dense shelf water (DSW) in the Southern Ocean. Its extended ice shelf and highly productive polynyas can ...
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