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This website was written by Lynn Rosentrater and designed by Planet Interactive for the Museum of Science, Boston. We gratefully acknowledge the support and contributions from all the scientists working on the US ITASE project and in particular Paul Mayewski from The Institute for Quaternary and Climate Studies at the University of Maine and Mark Twickler from the Climate Change Research Center at the University of New Hampshire.
The US ITASE team is sincerely grateful the Office of Polar Programs at the National Science Foundation for their financial support of the expedition.
Two books provided invaluable background in the preparation of this site:
Antarctic Science edited by D.W.H. Walton. London: Cambridge University Press, 1987.Explore Antarctica by Louise Crossley. London: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
We also wish to thank the following people for use of their materials included on this site:
Interpreting Ice Core Data is based on an activity developed by Zachary Smith in cooperation with the Climate Change Research Center at the University of New Hampshire.Insulating Materials is based heavily on information provided in the "Field Manual for the United States Antarctic Program" prepared by Antarctic Support Associates.
Sources of images include: the personal libraries of Paul Mayewski and the other US ITASE investigators, in addition to:
- Antarctic Meteorology Research Center
- Earth and Moon Viewer
- NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
- National Science Foundation
- NOAA's Ocean Modeling Branch
- University of Arizona
- WAISCORES
