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End of Season Field Reports
2015-2016 Field Season
- Ice Drilling Design and Operations, NSF ice coring & drilling provider (T-350-M)
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2014-2015 Field Season
- Taylor and Twickler, Collaborative Research: Climate, Ice Dynamics and Biology Using a Deep Ice Core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Ice Divide (I-477-M)
- Clow et al., WAIS Divide Borehole Logging 2014-2015 Field Season
- Ice Drilling Design and Operations, NSF ice coring & drilling provider (T-350-M)
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2013-2014 Field Season
- No field reports – The partial U.S. government shutdown forced significant changes to the U.S. Antarctic Program's operations for the 2013-2014 field season. The WAIS Divide field camp was not opened and the scientific field operations that were scheduled were postponed to the 2014-2015 field season.
2012-2013 Field Season
- Taylor and Twickler, Collaborative Research: Climate, Ice Dynamics and Biology Using a Deep Ice Core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Ice Divide (I-477-M)
- Severinghaus et al., Collaborative Research: Replicate Coring at WAIS Divide to Obtain Additional Samples at Events of High Scientific Interest (I-476-M)
- Ice Drilling Design and Operations, NSF ice coring & drilling provider (T-350-M)
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2011-2012 Field Season
- Taylor and Twickler, Collaborative Research: Climate, Ice Dynamics and Biology Using a Deep Ice Core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Ice Divide (I-477-M)
- Severinghaus et al., Collaborative Research: Replicate Coring at WAIS Divide to Obtain Additional Samples at Events of High Scientific Interest (I-476-M)
- Alley et al., Physical Properties of the WAIS Divide Deep Core (I-168-M)
- Price and Bay, Optical Logging of the WAIS Divide Borehole (I-122-M)
- Waddington and Anandakrishnan, Acoustic Wave Velocities and Ice Petrofabric at WAIS Divide (I-162-M)
- Ice Drilling Design and Operations, NSF ice coring & drilling provider (T-350-M)
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2010-2011 Field Season
- Taylor and Twickler, Collaborative Research: Climate, Ice Dynamics and Biology Using a Deep Ice Core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Ice Divide (I-477-M)
- Alley et al., Physical Properties of the WAIS Divide Deep Core (I-168-M)
- Ice Drilling Design and Operations, NSF ice coring & drilling provider (T-350-M)
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2009-2010 Field Season
- Taylor and Twickler, Collaborative Research: Climate, Ice Dynamics and Biology Using a Deep Ice Core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Ice Divide (I-477-M)
- Alley et al., Physical Properties of the WAIS Divide Deep Core (I-168-M)
- Ice Drilling Design and Operations, NSF ice coring & drilling provider (T-350-M)
- McKee, Ice Cores: Translucent Truths from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, NSF Artists and Writers Program (W-217-M)
- Raytheon Polar Services Company, NSF Antarctic logistics provider
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2008-2009 Field Season
- Taylor and Twickler, Collaborative Research: Climate, Ice Dynamics and Biology Using a Deep Ice Core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Ice Divide (I-477-M)
- Alley et al., Physical Properties of the WAIS Divide Deep Core (I-168-M)
- Bales, Atmospheric, Snow and Firn Chemistry Studies for Interpretation of WAIS-Divide Cores (I-151-M)
- Ice Drilling Design and Operations, NSF ice coring & drilling provider (T-350-M)
- Raytheon Polar Services Company, NSF Antarctic logistics provider
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2007-2008 Field Season
- Taylor and Twickler, Collaborative Research: Climate, Ice Dynamics and Biology Using a Deep Ice Core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Ice Divide (I-477-M)
- Alley et al., Physical Properties of the WAIS Divide Deep Core (I-168-M)
- NICL, U.S. National Ice Core Laboratory (I-478-M)
- Ice Coring & Drilling Services, NSF ice coring & drilling provider (T-350-M)
- Raytheon Polar Services Company, NSF Antarctic logistics provider
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2006-2007 Field Season
- Taylor and Twickler, Collaborative Research: Climate, Ice Dynamics and Biology Using a Deep Ice Core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Ice Divide (I-477-M)
- Cole-Dai, Major Ion Chemistry of the WAIS Divide Ice Core (I-355-M)
- Waddington, Spatial Variability in Firn Properties from Borehole Optical Stratigraphy at the Inland WAIS Core Site (I-171-M)
- Raymond and Matsuoka, Detection of Crystal Orientation Fabrics in the Divide Region Using Polarimetric Radar Methods (I-163-M)
- Ice Coring & Drilling Services, NSF ice coring & drilling provider (T-350-M)
- Raytheon Polar Services Company, NSF Antarctic logistics provider
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2005-2006 Field Season
- Taylor and Twickler, Collaborative Research: Climate, Ice Dynamics and Biology Using a Deep Ice Core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Ice Divide (I-477-M)
- Raymond and Matsuoka, Detection of Crystal Orientation Fabrics in the Divide Region Using Polarimetric Radar Methods (I-163-M)
- Sowers et al., Gases in firn air and shallow ice at the proposed WAIS Divide drilling site (I-177-M)
- Gogineni et al., ITR/SI+AP: A Mobile Sensor Web for Polar Ice Sheet Measurements (I-188)
- Pannirselvam and Braaten, High Resolution Ice Thickness and Plane Wave Mapping of Near-Surface Layers (I-346)
- Ice Coring & Drilling Services, NSF ice coring & drilling provider (T-350-M)
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