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Title IPY Project no. Nations<br />

AGAP-Antarctica’s Gamburtsev Province 67 U.S.A., U.K., Germany, Australia, China, Japan, Canada<br />

ICECAP-Investigating the Cryospheric Evolution of<br />

the Central Antarctic Plate<br />

97 U.K., U.S.A., Australia, France<br />

IPICS-<strong>International</strong> Partnerships in Ice Core 117 Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, India,<br />

Science-<strong>International</strong> <strong>Polar</strong> <strong>Year</strong> Initiative<br />

Italy, Japan Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Sweden Switzerland,<br />

U.K., U.S.A.<br />

LIMA-Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica 461 U.S.A., U.K.<br />

ASAID-Antarctic Surface Accumulation and Ice<br />

Discharge<br />

88 U.S.A., Australia, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, U.K., Norway, Russia<br />

TASTE-IDEA-Trans-Antarctic Scientific Traverses<br />

Expeditions – Ice Divide of East Antarctica<br />

152 Originated by Germany: implemented through the next two projects<br />

JASE-Japanese-Swedish Antarctic Expedition Contributed to<br />

objectives of 152<br />

Sweden, Japan, Russia<br />

US- Norway Traverse Contributed to<br />

objectives of 152<br />

Norway, U.S.A.<br />

PANDA- The Prydz Bay, Amery Ice Shelf and Dome<br />

A Observatories<br />

313 China, Australia, U.S.A., U.K., Japan, Germany<br />

ITASE-<strong>International</strong> Trans-Antarctic Scientific Linked to 88, Established prior to IPY with up to 20 national participants<br />

Expedition<br />

117, 152<br />

WAIS Divide Core - U.S.A.<br />

ACE-Antarctic Climate Evolution 54 China, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, U.K., U.S.A., Argentina,<br />

Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Netherlands and Sweden<br />

ANDRILL 256 U.S.A., New Zealand, Italy, U.K., France, Australia, Germany<br />

Multidisciplinary Study of the Amundsen Sea<br />

Embayment<br />

258 U.S.A., U.K.<br />

LARISSA-Larsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica - U.S.A., Belgium, Korea, U.K.<br />

LEGOS 125 France, Australia, Germany, U.S.A.<br />

lites, like ICESAT’s measurements of elevation change<br />

and GRACE’s measurements of mass change, emerged<br />

during IPY. Simultaneously, the SCAR supported ACE<br />

effort built a new community bridging between the<br />

paleooceanographic and modeling communities to<br />

interpret and support robust model development of<br />

past and future ice sheet change. Current change was<br />

also directly addressed through programs focused on<br />

ice shelves, the floating fringe of the ice sheet, where<br />

observations suggest strong interactions between the<br />

ice sheet and its surrounding waters on the continental<br />

shelf, ultimately connected to the deeper ocean.<br />

Thus IPY has enabled completely new means to measure<br />

change along with the research communities to<br />

interpret these changes just at the time when these<br />

changes are of most importance to societies across<br />

the globe. It is easy to view IPY as having arrived on<br />

the scene at the most critical time: the cryosphere is<br />

beginning to exhibit change previously not witnessed<br />

by humans, yet human behaviour will need to understand<br />

and accommodate these changes.<br />

IPY Investigations of the Antarctic Ice<br />

Sheet<br />

a. New Frontiers<br />

The New Frontiers of IPY <strong>2007–2008</strong> were mostly<br />

hidden beneath the thick ice of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.<br />

During IPY the knowledge that subglacial hydrologic<br />

systems can change and influence ice sheet dynamics<br />

became evident and the groundwork was laid<br />

for upcoming exploration of several subglacial<br />

lakes (Chapter 2.6). The other efforts focused on<br />

understanding the last unknown tectonic systems on<br />

Table 2.5-1. projects<br />

referred to in this<br />

Chapter.<br />

s C I e n C e P r o g r a m 235

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