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Science 4 December 1987:
Vol. 238. no. 4832, pp. 1361 - 1368
DOI: 10.1126/science.238.4832.1361
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Laboratory Antarctica: Research Contributions to Global Problems

GUNTER WELLER 1, CHARLES R. BENTLEY 2, DAVID H. ELLIOT 3, LOUIS J. LANZEROTTI 4, and PATRICK J. WEBBER 5

1 Professor of geophysics at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK 99775, and chairman of the National Research Council's Polar Research Board.
2 A. P. Crary Professor of Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, and director of the Geophysical and Polar Research Center.
3 Director of the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210.
4 Distinguished member of the technical staff with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ 07974.
5 Professor of biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309.

Research in Antarctica is becoming increasingly important in the large interdisciplinary studies of connections within the earth's geosphere-biosphere system. Four examples of broad research areas are discussed. Upper atmosphere research explores the sun-earth interactions, which are most intense in the polar regions. The mass balance and dynamics of the large Antarctic ice sheet, and its paleoclimatic records recovered from deep ice cores, are important indicators of past and present global changes. Antarctica and sediment cores from the Southern Ocean contain the history of inception and growth of the ice masses and their subsequent fluctuations, and the long-term history of paleoclimate. The remarkable adaptations of Antarctic biota to extreme cold and drought may allow, through biotic monitoring, the detection of changes in the ocean and climate of Antarctica.


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