To give you an idea of what we are studying, I copied the following research objectives abstract from our Polar Ice website.


"This project seeks to reconstruct how the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) withdrew from Taylor Valley since it last achieved maximum extent. We will test hypotheses for the coevolution of the WAIS margin and the former glacial lake that was dammed against it. One objective is to study high-elevation sediment bodies with surface geology and ground penetrating radar (GPR) to determine whether they are deltas or formed by other processes. Another objective is to constrain the former height of the glacial lake by measuring the salt content of sediments along elevation transects to determine whether they were submerged by the lake. The third objective is to determine using GPR and sediment coring whether controversial sediments on the valley floor are direct glacial deposits or deposited in a lake."