It's official, we will be deploying from Kansas City International Airport on November 4, 2010! We expect to return just in time for Thanksgiving. We'll spend a few days in New Zealand before heading down to McMurdo Station. McMurdo will act as our home base for the duration of our stay in Antarctica. From there we will take day trips to the field via a dual helicopter tandem as we travel nearly 200 miles to Byrd GlacierA mass of ice that persists for many years and notably deforms and flows under the influence of gravity.. Here, our work begins. Howling winds, sub-freezing temperatures and lots of ice!
The overall aim of our proposed work is to improve our understanding of outlet glacier dynamics in East Antarctica through an in-depth field study of Byrd GlacierA mass of ice that persists for many years and notably deforms and flows under the influence of gravity.. We seek to test several hypotheses:
1. Byrd GlacierA mass of ice that persists for many years and notably deforms and flows under the influence of gravity. experiences variability in flow speed at a variety of timescales (daily to seasonal to annual) as a response to tidal and hydrological forcings;
2. the configuration of Byrd GlacierA mass of ice that persists for many years and notably deforms and flows under the influence of gravity.'s grounding line makes it susceptible to rapid retreat up the fjord;
3. subglacial lakes in the catchment fill and drain on a regular basis and provide periodic forcing of a glacier flow response.
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