Enhanced submarine ice-shelf melting strongly controls ice loss in the Amundsen Sea embayment (ASE) of West Antarctica, but its magnitude is not well known in the critical grounding zones of the ASE's major glaciers. Here we directly quantify bottom ice losses along tens of kilometres with airborne radar sounding of the Dotson and Crosson ice shelves, which buttress the rapidly changing Smith, ...

Abstract. Both ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are discharging into the ocean. In many regions along coast of sheets, icebergs calve a bay. If addition through calving is faster than their transport out embayment, will be frozen mélange with surrounding sea winter. this case, buttressing effect can considerably stronger any by mere would be. This turn stabilizes glacier terminus leads to...

Divergent flow of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet on the outer continental shelf of the Amundsen Sea during the late Quaternary" (2007). Related Publications from ANDRILL Affiliates. Paper 7. Summary Understanding the past glacial history of regions undergoing potential rapid deglaciation is essential in order to estimate the possible threat of sea level rise. Recently acquired data have given new...

Attempts at private aquaculture enterprises resulted in few success stories until 1983, when twenty-six scallops survived a shipment to China and were spawned successfully. From this humble beginning, Chinese bay scallop aquaculture yielded 300,000 metric tons of product in 1998, grown on 7,000 hectares of embayment. The Chinese bay scallop has since been readily available in U.S. markets at a ...

Portunid crabs contribute to significant commercial and recreational fisheries globally are commonly fished in estuaries and/or marine embayments, which amongst the most degraded of all aquatic ecosystems. Portunus armatus were collected seasonally between April February from five locations across three systems temperate south-western Australia. The dietary composition was quantified compared t...