ANTOSTRAT Symposium on Antarctic paleoenvironments

该奖项由极地项目办公室的南极地质和地球物理项目提供，支持美国科学参与国际南极近海声学地层学（ANTOSTRAT）项目的研讨会。ANTOSTRAT是由南极研究科学委员会（SCAR）赞助的，它代表了一个重要的社区团体，讨论与南极及其冰盖的长期历史有关的新兴研究问题。该计划的重点是协调努力，了解在大陆边缘和周围海洋盆地的沉积物和结构中记录的过去1.3亿年（中生代晚期和新生代）的南极古环境和古气候。ANTOSTRAT的作业在几次成功的海洋钻井计划（ODP）钻井中发挥了重要作用。该讲习班将促进将ODP第178和188阶段的成果与罗伯茨角项目和其他有关项目的成果结合起来。此外，该计划还希望划定潜在钻探的科学目标区域，并确定钻探技术，以进一步推进我们对地球历史上这一重要时期的理解。该讲习班将于2001年9月在意大利的Erice（西西里岛）举行。

0111665DunbarThis award, provided by the Antarctic Geology and Geophysics Program of the Office of Polar Programs, supports US scientific participation in a workshop of the international Antarctic Offshore Acoustic Stratigraphy (ANTOSTRAT) program. ANTOSTRAT is sponsored by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and it represents an important community-based group for discussing emerging research issues related to the long-term history of the Antarctic and its ice sheets. The program focuses on coordinated efforts to understand Antarctic paleoenvironments and paleoclimates of the last 130 million years (late Mesozoic and Cenozoic) as recorded in sediments and structures on the continental margin and in the surrounding ocean basins. The ANTOSTRAT activity has been instrumental in achieving several successful Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) drilling legs. This workshop will facilitate integration of results from ODP Legs 178 and 188 with results from the Cape Roberts Project and other related projects. In addition, the program aspires to delineate scientific target areas for potential drilling and to define the drilling technologies that will be required to further advance our understanding of this important time in Earth's history. This workshop will be held in Erice (Sicily), Italy, in September 2001.