Rapid Deployment Seismic Recorders for Interdisciplinary Antarctic Research

我们的目标是建立一套基于舌头的地震仪器，一个移动的设施，提供数据，以帮助预测冰盖将如何演变，以及冰盖下的大陆将如何对冰负荷的变化作出反应。 我们解决这些重大问题的方法是创新的，并利用新的可用的快速部署工具，这些工具可以由一个小型团队以轻后勤部署在冰上。 其成果将包括冰下沉积物地图和地球深部的3D图像。 因此，该设施将使有关主要冰盖的新知识成为可能。 跨学科利用这项研究将使澳大利亚受益，因为它提高了在沿海人口众多的地区规划未来海平面上升的能力。

We aim to establish an Antarctic-based set of seismic instruments, a mobile facility, to provide data to help predict how ice sheets will evolve and how the continent under the ice sheets will respond to changes in ice load. Our approach to tackling such significant questions is innovative, and makes use of newly available, rapid deployment instruments that may be deployed in ice by a small team with light logistics. Outcomes will include maps of sub-ice sediments and 3D images of the deep Earth. The facility will thus enable new knowledge relating to major ice sheets. Interdisciplinary use of the research will benefit Australia through an improved ability to plan for future sea level rise in areas with large coastal populations.