Professor of Geology Eugene Domack was interviewed for an article in the Syracuse Post-Standard about the recent disintegration of an ice shelf and the Apr. 3-5 Antarctic and global warming conference to be held at Hamilton College:
Scientists from around the world will travel to Central New York in April to discuss the recent disintegration of a huge ice shelf in Antarctica....At least 50 scientists representing 10 nations will meet at Hamilton College in Clinton for a National Science Foundation conference. The three-day meeting will bring together some of the world's top researchers studying climate change and the Antarctic Peninsula...Hamilton professor Eugene Domack took part in the last scientific expedition to the ice shelf before it fractured and disintegrated during a 35-day period that ended March 7.
In December and January, he served as chief scientist aboard the research vessel N.B. Palmer. The ship took an international team of researchers to the Larsen Ice Shelf as part of a National Science Foundation project. The crew included five Hamilton College geology students.
Domack, who studies the history of the ocean floor based on cores of sediment, helped determine the age of the 700-foot-thick ice shelf.
"We've been working on the climate history of the peninsula for a number of years, and this is kind of the culmination of that work," he said. "The ice shelves are breaking up. The question we're trying to answer is whether these ice shelves have gone through a periodic history of retreat and regrowth."
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