National Science Foundation National Science Foundation

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Excerpt: During the 1999-2000 austral summer and the 2000 austral winter, the U.S. Antarctic Program will support more than 800 researchers and other participants in the U.S. Antarctic Program at three year-round stations (McMurdo, Amundsen-Scott South Pole, and Palmer), aboard two research ships (Laurence M. Gould and Nathaniel B. Palmer) in the Ross Sea and in the Antarctic Peninsula region, at remote field camps, and in cooperation with the national antarctic programs of the other Antarctic Treaty nations. These projects, funded and managed by the National Science Foundation (NSF), are part of the international effort to understand the Antarctic and its role in global processes. NSF also supports research that can be best or only performed in Antarctica. The scientists who will conduct the projects described in this book come primarily from U. S. universities and have won NSF support in response to Antarctic Research Program Announcement and Proposal Guide. Operational resources in Antarctica also are used to support scientists from other Federal agencies. Highlights of this year's austral summer research include...

Table of Contents
U.S. Antarctic Program, 1999-2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii Aeronomy and Astrophysics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Biology and Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Antarctic Pack Ice Seals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Long-term ecological research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Environmental Monitoring Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Geology and Geophysics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Cape Roberts International Drilling Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Glaciology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Siple Dome Ice Coring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Ocean and Climate Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60