GSA's 125th Anniversary
Expedition
Travels in Geology —
Antarctica and the Scotia Arc: Tectonics, Climate and Life
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GSA's 125th Anniversary Expedition participants embarked 28 December aboard the Akademik Ioffe.
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- Livingston Island: Binn’s Bluff on the Hurd Peninsula, and Hannah Point (16 Jan., Kate Spencer)
- Lemaire Channel, Port Lockroy, and Neko Harbour (15 Jan, Kate Spencer)
- Cuverville Island Landing, Gerlache Strait Killer Whales & Humpbacks, and Port Charcot/Boothe Island Landing (14 Jan., Kate Spencer)
- Deception Island: Pendulum Cove and Whalers Bay (13 Jan., Kate Spencer)
- Hope Bay near Argentina’s Esperanza Station, Antarctic Peninsula, facing Antarctic Sound (12 Jan., Kate Spencer)
- Admiralty Bay and Ferraz Station, King George Island (11 Jan., Kate Spencer)
- Cape Lookout, Elephant Island (10 Jan., Kate Spencer)
- A Quick Dispatch from Elephant Island (10 Jan., Kate Spencer)
- Zodiac Cruising with Whales at Point Wild, Elephant Island (9 Jan., Kate Spencer)
- South Georgia Recap by Ian Dalziel (4-6 Jan., Ian Dalziel)
- Sea Days, En Route to Elephant Island (7-8 Jan. Kate Spencer)
- Last Landings in South Georgia – St. Andrews Bay, Gold Harbour (6 Jan., Kate Spencer)
- Godthul, Sandebugten, and Grytviken (5 Jan., Joanna Ettlinger)
- Fortuna Bay and Shackleton Hike to Stromness Bay (4 Jan., Kate Spencer)
- Drygalski Fjord, Larsen Harbor Landing, Humpback and Southern Right Whales, Cooper Bay Landing (3 Jan., Kate Spencer)
- First landing in South Georgia: Peggoty Bluff in King Haakon Bay (2 Jan., Kate Spencer)
- South Georgia Glaciers (2 Jan., Richard Alley)
- Warming Up to Scott: A First Glance at Controls on Glaciers (2 Jan., Richard Alley)
- New Year’s Day at Sea, en Route to South Georgia Island – Shag Rocks (1 Jan., Joanna Ettlinger)
- Happy New Year’s Eve from the Southern Ocean (31 Dec., Kate Spencer)
- First Landing: Sea Lion Island, Falkland Islands (30 Dec., Kate Spencer)
- Santiago to the Falkland Islands and Boarding the Akademik Ioffe (29 Dec., Kate Spencer)
- Santiago Stopover, Falkland Islands Bound (28 Dec., Kate Spencer)
- Travels in Geology — Antarctica and the Scotia Arc: Tectonics, Climate and Life (28 Dec., Sharon Mosher)
- Packing for Antarctica (26 Dec.)
| Richard Alley's New Year's Eve lecture at sea explains glaciers in song. |
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| GSA 125th Expedition Group Portrait |
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| The Akademik Ioffe |
Trip Itinerary
- Falkland (Malvinas) Islands, with the classic sedimentary cover of the Gondwana supercontinent and a huge diversity of species
- South Georgia, an incredibly rugged island microcontinent comprising a marginal basin turbidite infill displaced eastward from the southernmost Andean Cordillera, with thriving colonies of penguins, seals, and albatross
- South Orkneys with uplifted Gondwanide margin fore-arc rocks and nesting Snow Petrels
- Antarctic Peninsula and South Shetland Islands, the "Antarctandes," including the active Deception Island volcano in the Bransfield back-arc rift and uplifted subduction complexes
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Participant Welcome Letter from GSA President George Davis
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