In November 2017 I travelled to Antarctica to take part in field work for the ROSETTA project – an airborne geophysical survey of the Ross Ice Shelf. The aims of this work were to:
- map the internal structure and base of the ice shelf using ice-penetrating radar.
- map the sea-floor bathymetry beneath the floating ice shelf by making detailing measurements of the change in the gravitational and magnetic field.
- use LIDAR and visual cameras to survey the surface of the ice shelf.
- use a collection of ocean floats to continuously monitor ice-shelf-ocean interactions.
Blogs from other members of fieldwork team can be found here:
Martin Wearing 