Award Abstract # 1341650
Transantarctic Mountains Science-meeting

NSF Org: OPP
Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
Recipient: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
Initial Amendment Date: May 3, 2013
Latest Amendment Date: May 3, 2013
Award Number: 1341650
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: thomas wilch
OPP
 Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
GEO
 Directorate for Geosciences
Start Date: August 1, 2013
End Date: July 31, 2016 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $73,157.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $73,157.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2013 = $73,157.00
History of Investigator:
  • Jaakko Putkonen (Principal Investigator)
    jaakko.putkonen@nmt.edu
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: University of North Dakota Main Campus
264 CENTENNIAL DR STOP 8371
GRAND FORKS
ND  US  58202-8371
(701)777-4151
Sponsor Congressional District: 00
Primary Place of Performance: University of North Dakota Main Campus
81 Cornell St, stop 8358
Grand Forks
ND  US  58202-8358
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
00
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): RSWNKK6J8CF3
Parent UEI: L4NWBKHV1J23
NSF Program(s): ANT Organisms & Ecosystems,
ANT Earth Sciences,
ANT Glaciology,
ANT Integrated System Science
Primary Program Source: 0100XXXXDB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 9150
Program Element Code(s): 511100, 511200, 511600, 529200
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.078

ABSTRACT

Intellectual Merit:
The Transantarctic Mountains (TAM) encompasses exposures of Antarctic bedrock that provide a history of Antarctic continental evolution. The TAM also creates microhabitats for extremophiles and hosts unconsolidated sedimentary deposits that record the history of the ice sheet and Antarctica?s changing climate. Much less is known of the extant faunal and floral assemblages, climate, or geophysics of this region. The PI proposes a workshop to facilitate the gathering of multi disciplinary researchers to exchange ideas for investigating processes that are occurring or that have occurred in the TAM. This workshop will take place in September 2013 in Minneapolis and will be locally organized by Polar Geospatial Center.

Broader impacts:
TAM researchers come from diverse fields in geoscience, atmospheric and climate science, glaciology, and ecology and evolutionary science. This workshop will encourage the participation of graduate students, post-docs, and early career researchers and the organizing committee will strive to include a diverse group of participants.

PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT

Disclaimer

This Project Outcomes Report for the General Public is displayed verbatim as submitted by the Principal Investigator (PI) for this award. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this Report are those of the PI and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation; NSF has not approved or endorsed its content.

The goal of this project was to organize an interdisciplinary Antarctic research meeting. And to determine the current status of the Antarctic research and chart directions for future. The third goal was to challenge the participants to look at the Antarctic research as not only their own narrow problem solving task, but as a bigger venture aimed at breakthroughs through collaboration and interdisciplinary collaboration.

 

All the above tasks are important since no currently existing venue serves the varied community that is spread  under many disciplinary meetings (biology, geology, atmospheric science…) or cannot gather in large meetings during Antarctic field season (American Geophysical meeting in December).

 

The first meeting under this funding was organized in Minneapolis, MN in 2013. This meeting included presentations and interactions from all main disciplines active in Antarctic research. The community worked on the breakthrough challenges and a community report was published and distributed in 2014. A second interdisciplinary Antarctic research meeting was organized in Loveland, CO, in 2015.

 

The two meetings and the community document have helped to consolidate the community and build broader understanding of the goals and objectives in various disciplines. The document charted the way to collaboration and is aiming at breakthroughs in the area of Antarctic research not bound by disciplinary boundaries.

  

 


Last Modified: 11/01/2016
Modified by: Jaakko K Putkonen

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