NASA Hosts Teleconference On Expedition To Antarctic Hot Spot

[NASA News <hqnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nov. 07, 2011

Steve Cole 
Headquarters, Washington                                         
202-358-0918 
stephen.e.cole@xxxxxxxx 

Ed Campion 
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 
301-286-0697 
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MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-228

NASA HOSTS TELECONFERENCE ON EXPEDITION TO ANTARCTIC HOT SPOT

GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EST 
on Wednesday, Nov. 9, to discuss a new field campaign season on one 
of Antarctica's "hottest" spots: the rapidly-melting Pine Island 
Glacier. 

The Pine Island Glacier ice shelf expedition, an international effort 
led by seven institutions, aims to peek beneath the ice and determine 
how the ocean is melting the glacier's underbelly. During the news 
conference, panelists will discuss this season's scientific goals, 
state-of-the-art data collection, and the methods used to deploy 
staff and equipment on this crevasse-ridden, isolated edge of 
Antarctica. 

Teleconference participants are: 
- Robert Bindschadler, glaciologist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight 
Center, Greenbelt, Md. 
- Sridhar Anandakrishnan, geophysicist, Penn State University, 
University Park, Pa. 
- Timothy Stanton, oceanographer, Naval Postgraduate School, San Diego 

- Scott Borg, director of Antarctic sciences, National Science 
Foundation, Arlington, Va. 

To participate, media representatives must e-mail their name, media 
affiliation and telephone number to Steve Cole at 
stephen.e.cole@xxxxxxxx by 9 a.m. on Nov. 9 for call-in number and 
pass code. Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live at: 

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio 

Related images and video will be posted at the time of the 
teleconference at: 

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/pine-island-glacier.html 

	
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