4. Acknowledgements

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I would like to thank Antarctica New Zealand staff based in Christchurch and at Scott Base. We are grateful to Margaret Auger, Tom Arnold, and Al Moore for assistance with our field work. I'm indebted for excellent and safe support by Helicopter NZ staff, in particular Rob McPhail. I'm indebted to Dr. Tim Haskell for hosting Holly Winton in the K131 event. Furthermore, we would like to thank; Ana Aguilar-Islas for the collection of 10 samples from Granite Harbour; and Pat Langhorn, Alex Gough, Wendy Claveno, James Pinchin, Keliegh Jones for their support on Holly's traverses.

I would like to thank the National Isotope Centre, GNS Science, Mr. Andy Phillips, the Geochemical Laboratory, Victoria University, Prof. Joel Baker, and the Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Prof. Paul Mayewski for ice core analyses. This project is funded by Victoria University of Wellington, GNS Science, and Foundation for Research, Science, and Technology (Grant No. VICX0704 and CO5X0202).