Words from the representative
(Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University)
Today there is a growing concern on the rapidly changing Antarctic ice sheet. This research area aims to understand the drastic changes in the Antarctic ice sheet and Southern Ocean from the past to the present, together with the relationship with the global environments. The progress in the understanding will contribute to predict Antarctica and the global environment in the near future. As the effects of human activity spread over the planet and global environmental issues become more pressing, we begin to think that Antarctica is no longer a sleeping lion and hence we feel a great deal of interest and expectation for the advancement of our research area of “Global Antarctic Science”.
The work in this research area is based on its predecessor, the Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Giant reservoirs of heat, water and matter: Southern Ocean and Antarctic ice sheets driving global environmental change” (2017-2021: Representative: Kenji Kawamura, currently Professor at the National Institute of Polar Research). Now it’s time the framework for interdisciplinary collaboration, which was created during the previous five years, demonstrates its true value. The researchers who have been empowered by the “Giant reservoirs” will support the foundation for major progress in research, and we are aiming for a new era by nurturing young researchers who will be active on the international academic arena.
We look forward to your support for “Global Antarctic Science”.
Organization
A01-1: Antarctic ice sheet-ocean interactions in the era of global warming
- Project Number: 24H02340
- Principal Investigator of Planned Research: HIRANO Daisuke (National Institute of Polar Research)
A01-2: Interactions in Antarctic and global atmosphere-ocean-geochemical cycles
- Project Number: 24H02341
- Principal Investigator of Planned Research: INOUE Jun (National Institute of Polar Research)
A01-3: Unraveling spatio-temporal variations of the Antarctic ice sheet mass balance and its governing mechanisms
- Project Number: 24H02342
- Principal Investigator of Planned Research: NIWANO Masashi (Meteorological Research Institute)
A02: Multi-dimensional under ice observation by autonomous robotic systems
- Project Number: 24H02343
- Principal Investigator of Planned Research: MAKI Toshihiro (Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo)
A03-1: The Antarctic ice sheet and ocean dynamics during past warm periods
- Project Number: 24H02344
- Principal Investigator of Planned Research: SEKI Osamu (Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University)
A03-2: Long-term scale Antarctic and global environmental interactions based on ice core analysis
- Project Number: 24H02345
- Principal Investigator of Planned Research: KAWAMURA Kenji (National Institute of Polar Research)
A03-3: Modeling of climate system dynamics in the Antarctic
- Project Number: 24H02346
- Principal Investigator of Planned Research: OKA Akira (Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo)
X00: Global Antarctic Science: connecting the chain of changing huge ice sheet and global environments
- Project Number: 24H02339
- Principal Investigator of Planned Research: AOKI Shigeru (Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University)