Dispatches from Antarctica – Farewell Weddell Sea
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Living vesicomyid clams 100 kilometers from the former edge of the Larsen B Ice Shelf as initially seen in 2005 (top), and images of what may be the same clam bed now dead in 2007.  Although the image quality is poor, the trails in the 2005 image are characteristic of those made by living vesicomyids.  Upper image is from Domack et al. EOS Transactions, American Geophysical Union 86, 269-276 (2005).  Lower image is from Niemann et al. (2009)

David Honig is a graduate student in marine science at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Cindy Van Dover. He is participating in LARISSA, a 2 month multinational expedition to study the causes and consequences of the ice shelf collapse. He will be posting regular updates on the expedition exclusively for Deep Sea . . . → Read More: Dispatches from Antarctica – Farewell Weddell Sea

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Dispatches from Antarctica – Sampling the Inverted Benthos
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David Honig is a graduate student in marine science at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Cindy Van Dover. He is participating in LARISSA, a 2 month multinational expedition to study the causes and consequences of the ice shelf collapse. He will be posting regular updates on the expedition exclusively for Deep Sea News . . . → Read More: Dispatches from Antarctica – Sampling the Inverted Benthos

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Dispatches from Antarctica – First Month’s Progress
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David Honig is a graduate student in marine science at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Cindy Van Dover. He is participating in LARISSA, a 2 month multinational expedition to study the causes and consequences of the ice shelf collapse. He will be posting regular updates on the expedition exclusively for Deep Sea News . . . → Read More: Dispatches from Antarctica – First Month’s Progress

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TGIF: Iceberg sails past New Zealand (2006)
TGIF: Iceberg sails past New Zealand (2006) avatar

When was the last time your local news station sent out reporter by helicopter to land on an iceberg floating offshore? One of the intrepid chaps sums it up nicely,… “all my life I wanted to go to the Antarctic, now the Antarctic’s come to me.” . . . → Read More: TGIF: Iceberg sails past New Zealand (2006)

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