MIS

ANDRILL Media Guide
Updated Nov. 1, 2007

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Use ANDRILL as an exciting, integrative part of your classroom.

Follow the research of an international team of scientists and educators from Germany, Italy, New Zealand and the United States as they recover stratigraphic records from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.

Six educators from the multi-national ARISE (ANDRILL Research Immersion for Science Educators) team have brought exciting real-world science into your classroom through interactive blogging, video journals, photo collections, and engaging materials produced on the ice with ANDRILL scientists during the October- January drilling season.

Join us as we travel to the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth to study the amazing geologic stories that Antarctica has to tell. Check out the ANDRILL Project Iceberg website at www.andrill.org/iceberg.

We invite you to join us on this exciting adventure. See you there!

The key aim of the MIS Project is to determine past ice shelf responses to climate forcing, including variability at a range of timescales. To achieve this aim ANDRILL will recover core from beneath the McMurdo Ice Shelf. The primary target for the MIS site is a 1200 meter-thick body of Plio-Pleistocene (0-5 million years ago) glacimarine, terrigenous, volcanic, and biogenic sediment that has accumulated in the Windless Bight region of a flexural moat basin surrounding Ross Island. A single ~1000 meter-deep drillcore will be recovered from approximately 900m of water.

Co-Chief Scientists

Dr. Tim Naish

Dr. Ross Powell

Keep track of the MIS project

MIS Scientific Logistics Implementation Plan (SLIP)

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Download Table 2 (On-Ice Roles) only
Download Table 3 (Off-Ice Roles) only
Download MIS Science Team Acceptance Letter

MIS Guide to Participation

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Download all Non-U.S. Forms
Download the Excess Baggage Request Form

ANDRILL McMurdo Ice Shelf Project Scientific Prospectus

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