TY - JOUR T1 - Circumpolar Deep Water Impacts Glacial Meltwater Export and Coastal Biogeochemical Cycling Along the West Antarctic Peninsula JF - Frontiers in Marine Science Y1 - 2019 A1 - Cape, Mattias R. A1 - Vernet, Maria A1 - Pettit, Erin C. A1 - Wellner, Julia A1 - Truffer, Martin A1 - Akie, Garrett A1 - Domack, Eugene A1 - Leventer, Amy A1 - Smith, Craig R. A1 - Huber, Bruce A. KW - Antarctic Peninsula KW - ice KW - meltwater KW - phytoplankton VL - 6 UR - https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2019.00144/full ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Larsen Ice Shelf System, Antarctica (LARISSA): Polar Systems Bound Together, Changing Fast JF - GSA Today Y1 - 2019 A1 - Wellner, Julia A1 - Scambos, Ted A1 - Domack, Eugene A1 - Vernet, Maria A1 - Leventer, Amy A1 - Balco, Greg A1 - Brachfeld, Stefanie A1 - Cape, Mattias A1 - Huber, Bruce A1 - Ishman, Scott A1 - McCormick, Michael A1 - Mosley-Thompson, Ellen A1 - Pettit, Erin A1 - Smith, Craig A1 - Truffer, Martin A1 - Van Dover, Cindy A1 - Yoo, Kyu-Cheul AB - Climatic, cryospheric, and biologic changes taking place in the northern Antarctic Peninsula provide examples for how ongoing systemic change may pro‐ gress through the entire Antarctic system. A large, interdisciplinary research project focused on the Larsen Ice Shelf system, synthesized here, has documented dramatic ice cover, oceanographic, and ecosystem changes in the Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene and the present period of rapid regional warming. The responsive- ness of the region results from its position in the climate and ocean system, in which a narrow continental block extends across zonal atmospheric and ocean flow, creating high snow accumulation, strong gradients and gyres, dynamic oceanography, outlet glaciers feeding into many fjords and bays having steep topography, and a continental shelf that contains many glacially carved troughs separated by areas of glacial sedi- ment accumulation. The microcosm of the northern Antarctic Peninsula has a ten- dency to change rapidly—rapid relative not just to Antarctica's mainland but compared to the rest of the planet as well—and it is generally warmer than the rest of Antarctica. Both its Holocene and modern glaciological retreats offer a picture of how larger areas of Antarctica farther south might change under future warming. VL - 29 ER -