{"id":206,"date":"2019-10-17T16:54:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T21:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/danmorgan\/?page_id=206"},"modified":"2024-02-12T18:11:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T23:11:19","slug":"antarctica","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/danmorgan\/antarctica\/","title":{"rendered":"Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"
The information below is about the 2024-25 research project in Antarctica. The deadline to apply to join the research team has passed.
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From November to December 2024, Dr. Dan Morgan and Dr. Rebekah Stanton will lead a team from Vanderbilt University to Antarctica to conduct research on the glacial history of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. We seek three current students (current first-years, sophomores, or juniors) to be part of the field team, conduct lab research, and present their research results, thus completing immersion experiences and projects.<\/p>\n

This page will describe the goals of the project in Antarctica, the basic timeline, and the expectations for students selected to join the research team for 2024-25.<\/p>\n

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Project Goals:<\/em><\/strong> The nickname for this project is VAMPIRE: Vanderbilt Antarctic Moraine Provenance Immersive Research Experience. This project will utilize new techniques to ascertain the history of glacial ice flow in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica (MDV). Deposits in these valleys preserve at least 15 million years of glacial history, which come from multiple glacial events and sources. We will spend about two months in Antarctica to sample these glacial deposits from a number of sites in the MDV. Back at Vanderbilt, we will perform uranium-lead radiometric dating of zircon sand grains from each sample, building up a library of age data acting as fingerprints for different glacial sources. With these data, we can reconstruct past ice sheet behavior in Antarctica and better inform how the ice sheet will influence future global climate change and sea level rise. This project is federally funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Antarctic Program.<\/p>\n

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Map of the Antarctic continent. The box shows the area of the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV) and the arrows show the primary directions that ice flowed into the valleys.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Map of the MDV showing possible past ice flow directions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nadia McGlynn (\u201924) and Courtney Megerian (\u201922) in Lower Wright Valley in 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Information Sessions:<\/em><\/strong> To apply to join the research team, you must attend one of the following information sessions:<\/p>\n