Mount Feather Sirius Group Workshop and Collaborative Sample Analysis and Publication

该奖项是为了支持一个讲习班，该讲习班旨在客观地描述、分发和取样最近从南极洲费瑟山的天狼星集团矿床中回收的岩心和露头材料。羽毛山沉积物已被其他研究人员广泛研究，它被认为是有助于解决有关南极洲上新世冰川和气候历史争论的关键地点之一。最近，一系列国际会议和出版物对有关这段历史的调查数据集的技术、发现和可重复性提出了批评。讲习班期间取样的材料将分发给对该项目有兴趣的调查人员，这项工作的结果将发表在一份公共报告中，该报告将成为所有调查人员综合调查结果的集体出版物的基础。单独的并发出版物将包括对样品收集技术和矿床地质环境的描述。

This award is for the support of a workshop designed to objectively describe, distribute and sample core and outcrop material recently recovered from the Sirius Group deposit at Mt. Feather, Antarctica. The Mt. Feather deposit has been extensively studied by other investigators and it is thought to be one of the key sites that will help resolve the debate about the Pliocene glacial and climatic history of Antarctica. Recently, a flurry of international meetings and publications has seen criticism of the techniques, findings, and reproducibility of data sets from investigations pertaining to this history. The material sampled during this workshop will be distributed to investigators who have registered interest in the project and results from this work will be published in a communal report which will form the basis for a group publication on the combined findings of all investigators. Separate concurrent publications will include a description of the sample collection techniques and the geologic setting of the deposit.