Antarctic Climate Evolution

Welcome to ACE

ACE is an international research initiative that has grown out of the ANTOSTRAT (ANTarctic Offshore STRATigraphy) project. ANTOSTRAT orginated in 1990 as an offshoot project of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Group of Specialists on the Evolution of Cenozoic Paleoenvironments of the Southern High Latitudes. The ANTOSTRAT program officially came to an end in July 2002. The goal of ACE is to continue the study of Antarctic climate and glacial history through paleoclimate and ice sheet modeling studies, purposefully integrated with geological investigations of the proxy record of ancient Antarctic climates and ice sheets. ACE is now an official SCAR program. A more complete introduction to ACE can be found here.

See the ACE implementation plan.

Download the full ACE proposal.

Download the ACE proposal to the International Polar Year.

Thank you for visiting the Antarctic Climate Evolution website. Any comments/suggestions related to the layout, design, and content of this website are welcome. -- Rob DeConto, deconto@geo.umass.edu; Steve Gaurin, sgaurin@geo.umass.edu.

Announcements:

Check out the new Workshop Report from the East Antarctic
margin workshop held in Spoleto, Italy in Sept. 2005,
3^rd entry under "Meetings and Events: past" to the right.

Check out new data and resources links under "DATA"

Read some preliminary plans for a recent Antarctic field work
project of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

ACE has been conditionally endorsed as part of
the International Polar Year (IPY) program for 2007-2008!
Click here to see the letter from ICSU / WMO.
Need official ACE support for a proposal? Contact Martin Seigert
or Rob Dunbar to use the IPY badge!

Meetings & Events

upcoming:

TBA

past:

At the SCAR29 Meeting in Hobart, Tasmania, the ACE Steering Group meeting, no. 3 was held starting at 6pm on Tuesday, 12 July 2006.
View the meeting agenda.

At the AGU Fall Meeting 2005, the ACE Steering Group meeting, no. 2 was held from 2pm-6pm on Wednesday, 7 December 2005 in The Argent Hotel Civic Room, San Francisco.
View the meeting agenda and the minutes (with ACTION items).

ACE co-sponsored a workshop on East Antarctica, entitled, Cenozoic onshore and offshore stratigraphic record from the East Antarctic margin: recent results and future directions.
The workshop took place on September 18-20 2005, in Spoleto, Italy.
The aim of the workshop was to synthesize existing knowledge about the evolution of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, to define future lines of research, and to develop collaborations to integrate the data already collected and for collecting new data during future cruises.
Click for the new Workshop Report and the workshop advertisement.

ACE co-sponsored an International Conference on Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products.
It was held at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth, 22-27 August 2005.
The goal of this conference was to promote dialogue between researchers in the fields of contemporary glacial processes, glacial sedimentology and ice sheet modelling in order to advance these fields in an integrated way. There was an ACE-specific meeting here on Friday, 26 August 2005.
See the conference website and the ACE items to be discussed.

At the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2005 held in Vienna, Austria on 24-29 April, there was a cryospheric sciences programme featuring an
Antarctic cryosphere and Southern Ocean climate evolution (Cenozoic-Holocene)
session, with co-conveners F. Florindo and R. Gersonde.
See the programme website for more information (scroll down to session #CL28).

Also at the EGU General Assembly, the ACE Steering Group meeting, no. 1 was held on Wednesday, 25 April 2005 in Le Meridien Hotel, Opernring 13-15 Vienna.
View the meeting agenda and the minutes (with ACTION items).