Kenichi Matsuoka, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington

SALE: Subglacial Antarctic Lake Environments

Science Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) identified SALE as one of the five international research programs. Texas A&M University leads efforts in the United State with financial support from NSF. Recent workshop in Grenoble France provides useful information available online, click here.

WAIS: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative

This initiative leads multidisciplinary study of rapid climate change and future sea level with emphasis on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Annual meetings are hold in middle/late September.

WAIS Divide Core Project

This is a United States deep ice coring project in West Antarctica and is the second component to the larger WAISCORES project. The purpose of the WAIS Divide project is to collect a deep ice core from the WAIS ice divide in order to develop a unique series of interrelated climate, ice dynamics, and biologic records focused on understanding interactions among global earth systems.

Two of Matsuoka's NSF funded projects have studied this region extensively.