Announcement of the Start of the 379th Expedition of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) — Investigating the Dynamics of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet through Drilling at the Edge of the Amundsen Sea Ice Sheet
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Professor Masao Iwai of the Center for Integrated Marine Core Research at our university will participate in Expedition 379 of the International Ocean Discovery Program as a micro-paleontologist (diatoms).
As part of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), a research expedition aboard the U.S.-operated research vessel Joides Resolution will begin on January 18 to carry out the project titled “The History of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Amundsen Sea: Verifying the West Antarctic Ice Sheet’s Response to Warming Based on Drilling Records from the Amundsen Sea Basin.”
For more details, please refer to the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) press release.