An educational resource from Geoscience Australia based on a 2003-2004 Antarctic expedition. Six scientists drilled through the Amery Ice Shelf to study the underlying ocean cavity using instruments lowered through the ice. The resource includes teacher answers to facilitate student use of the real expedition data.
Use Cases
- Teaching oceanographic concepts based on data from beneath an ice shelf.
- Analyzing polar research methods based on the described drilling and instrument deployment.
- Exploring Antarctic marine environments based on the study of a lightless ocean cavity.
Strengths
- Data originates from a specific scientific expedition involving six scientists over a month in the 2003-2004 Antarctic summer.
- Includes pedagogical support with teacher answers for educational use.
Limitations
- Data format is limited to PDF and HTML, which may restrict computational analysis.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Geoscience Australia Data
- Collection Method
- Instruments lowered through a drill hole in the Amery Ice Shelf.
- Time Range
- Summer of 2003-2004
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-19 22:24:48.092481; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Amery Ice Shelf, eastern Antarctica