Open AccessWorkshop advances interdisciplinary polar science and fast ice sheet drilling
Author(s) -
Tulaczyk Slawek,
Clow Gary D.,
Elliot David H.,
Powell Ross D.,
Priscu John C.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2003eo120004
Subject(s) - ice sheet , multidisciplinary approach , earth science , sampling (signal processing) , natural (archaeology) , geology , astrobiology , physical geography , geography , oceanography , engineering , paleontology , telecommunications , political science , physics , detector , law
Over the last 50 years, the polar ice sheets covering Antarctica and Greenland have become natural scientific laboratories. Thanks to their unique environments, they yield discoveries that advance different geophysical disciplines and capture the imagination of the general public. The scientific community interested in sampling polar ice sheets and their substrata has been growing recently, and now incorporates biologists, geologists, geophysicists, glaciologists,and paleo‐climatologists. This multidisciplinary interest is opening new research frontiers. Significantly advancing our scientific understanding along many of these frontiers will require targeted sampling strategies and the acquisition of data from arrays of deep access holes on spatial scales ranging from local to continent‐wide.