ITASE

Fall 2008

International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE) Synthesis Workshop

By Daniel Dixon (Climate Change Institute, University of Maine), Massimo Frezzotti (ENEA, Lab. Climate Observations, Rome, Italy), Elisabeth Isaksson (Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway), Thamban Meloth (National Centre For Antarctic & Ocean Research, India)

Changing global climate is forcing scientists to vigorously test the existing paradigms and to find improved evidence of how the climate system really works at various time scales.

Spring 2007

U.S. International Trans Antarctic Scientific Expedition

By Joseph Souney, National Ice Core Laboratory-Science Management Office, University of New Hampshire

The International Trans Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE) is a multi-national (20 nations), multi-disciplinary field research program focused on understanding the recent environmental history of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean through overland traverses of Antarctica.