Victoria University Antarctic Research Expedition Science and Logistics Reports 2001-02: VUWAE 46

2 Proposed Programme

2 Proposed Programme

The 2001/2002 season focused on 'Holocene Glacial Ice - a Continuous Paleothermometer', the last of three dependent objectives addressed in this 3 year project.

The main emphasis of this year's field season was:
  • To recover a 200m deep ice core from Victoria Lower Glacier
  • To re-visit GPS mass balance devices
  • To record further weather observations from Victoria Lower Glacier
  • To collect high resolution snow samples from the polar plateau