Amery Ice Shelf Ocean Cavity Measurements from 2003-2004 Antarctic Expedition

Six scientists and technicians conducted a month-long expedition on the Amery Ice Shelf in eastern Antarctica during the summer of 2003-2004. They drilled through hundreds of meters of ice to lower instruments into the sub-ice-shelf ocean cavity. This dataset, provided by the Australian Ocean Data Network, contains the resulting measurements for educational use.

Use Cases

• Teaching oceanography concepts based on sub-ice-shelf cavity measurements.
• Demonstrating polar research methods based on the described drilling and instrument deployment.
• Analyzing Antarctic marine environments based on data from a location with no sunlight.
• Creating educational exercises based on the provided teacher answers.

Strengths

• Data originates from a specific, month-long scientific expedition in 2003-2004.
• Focuses on a unique environment—the ocean cavity beneath an Antarctic ice shelf.
• Includes teacher answers, suggesting structured educational support.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is provided in HTML and PDF formats, which may require extraction for computational analysis.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Instruments lowered through a drill hole in the Amery Ice Shelf.

Time Range

Summer of 2003-2004

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-19 23:17:58.540802; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Amery Ice Shelf, eastern Antarctica