Sources, Quality, and Fate of Organic Matter in Deep-Sea Sediments in the Larsen A Embayment, Weddell Sea: Changes by Global Warming and Ice Shelf Melt

• Main Author: Shimizu, Megumi S
• Other Authors: Van Dover, Cindy L
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Biogeochemistry; Environmental studies; Ecology; Antarctica; deep-sea sediments; global warming; lipid biomarker; organic matter; Antarctic; Larsen Ice Shelf; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10161/14353

Ice shelf coverage in Antarctica is declining due to recent global warming. The northern part of Larsen Ice Shelf, the Larsen A in the Weddell Sea, has been decreasing since the 19th century and in 2000 finally disappeared. Ice shelf coverage decrease should dramatically enhance biological productiv...