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Scientific Advice and International Cooperation in the Antarctic Treaty System FUTURE ANTARCTIC MARGIN PALEOCLIMATE SCIENTIFIC DRILLING

Summary

Scientific drilling in and around Antarctica and the Southern Ocean is undertaken within the framework of the Antarctic Treaty and other international agreements through a wide range of research activities coordinated by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and supported by the individual national Antarctic Programs. The SCAR-Antarctic Climate Evolution (ACE) initiative and its sponsored projects and programs identify scientific questions and develop hypotheses and integrated strategies that can be implemented through drilling, numerical modeling, and other activities in the circum-Antarctic region. SCAR-ACE projects such as the Antarctic Geological Drilling Program (ANDRILL), the Circum-Antarctic Seismic Stratigraphy and Paleobathymetry Project (CASP), the Antarctic Landscape Evolution Project (ANTScape), and the Antarctic Seismic Digital Library System (SDLS), among others, serve to inform and guide ongoing discussions about community scientific priorities and long-term planning. These promise to achieve global science outcomes that combine process studies, drilling of critical climate archives and numerical modeling. New results from the ANDRILL Program (Naish et al. 2009; Pollard & DeConto, 2009) provide an important example of how paleoclimate records integrated with climate and ice sheet modeling can help constrain future change. We present the core of a multinational, multiplatform scientific drilling strategy to recover key physical evidence constraining past and future Antarctic Ice Sheet behavior, which is aimed at addressing key knowledge gaps about the role of Antarctic ice sheets in climate change as identified by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR4, IPCC, 2007).

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Speakers

Ms. Helen Campbell SCADM Deputy Chief Officer, United Kingdom
Alan Cooper U.S. Geological Survey
Peter Barrett Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University, New Zealand
Robert DeConto Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts
Robert Dunbar Environmental Earth Systems Science, Stanford University
Carlota Escutia Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (IACT), Spain
Dr. Martin Seigert Head of the School of GeoSciences
Nigel Wardell Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Italy
Jon Childs U.S. Geological Survey
John Hocevar Oceans Director
Allison Kole Campaigns Assistant, Science and the Governance of International Commons
Igor Krupnik Smithsonian Institution
Mr. Michael Lang Director, Smithsonian Marine Science Network; Director, Smithsonian Scientific Diving program; Office of the Under Secretary for Science, Smithsonian Institution, United States
Scott E. Miller Smithsonian Institution
Mr. Michael Lang Director, Smithsonian Marine Science Network; Director, Smithsonian Scientific Diving program; Office of the Under Secretary for Science, Smithsonian Institution, United States
Martin Sayer NERC Facility for Scientific Diving, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom
Rafael Lemaitre Smithsonian Institution
Valery Lukin Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Russian Antarctic Expedition
Robert A. McCabe
Anita Dey Nuttall Canadian Circumpolar Institute, University of Alberta
Frank Rack ANDRILL Science Management Office, University of Nebraska Lincoln
Laura De Santis Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale GS, Italy
Richard Levy GNS Science, New Zealand
Tim Naish Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Robert DeConto Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts
Carlota Escutia Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (IACT), Spain
Tina Tin Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC)
Rupert Summerson Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Professor David Walton Professor Emeritus, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Julie A Hambrook Berkman Foundation for the Good Governance of International Spaces
Dr. Michele Zebich-Knos Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, USA

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