Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/T/S/2000/01415
Marine geological processes and sediments beneath floating ice shelves in Greenland and Antarctica: investigations using the Autosub AUV.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor JA Dowdeswell, University of Glasgow, School of Geographical & Earth Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor PW Nienow, University of Edinburgh, Sch of Geosciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr NC Mitchell, The University of Manchester, Earth Atmospheric and Env Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor A Jenkins, Northumbria University, Fac of Engineering and Environment
- Grant held at:
- University of Glasgow, School of Geographical & Earth Sciences
- Science Area:
- Marine
- Overall Classification:
- Marine
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Science Topics:
- Ocean Circulation
- Sediment/Sedimentary Processes
- Glacial & Cryospheric Systems
- Climate & Climate Change
- Abstract:
- The cavities beneath floating ice shelves are among the least accessible places on Earth. The development of Autosub is a unique opportunity to undertake a coordinated scientific effort to understand the processes taking place beneath ice shelves, the rates of operation of these processes and the ways in which these systems have changed through time. Scientific targets are large floating glacier tongues fed by extensive ice-sheet drainage basins in North-East Greenland and West Antarctica. Instruments on Autosub will measure ice-shelf base roughness, sea-floor morphology and acoustic stratigraphy, water-column turbidity, suspended-sediment content and salinity. JCR will also make marine-geological measurements of sea-floor sediments (by swath bathymetry, coring, seismics) and of the water column beyond ice-shelf margins. Ice shelf-ocean interactions will also be modelled numerically.
- Period of Award:
- 1 Dec 2002 - 30 Nov 2006
- Value:
- £15,304 Split Award
Authorised funds only
- NERC Reference:
- NER/T/S/2000/01415
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Directed Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Autosub under Ice
This grant award has a total value of £15,304
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Equipment | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £189 | £4,516 | £5,432 | £3,091 | £2,078 |
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