News From the Field Wiens Heads Seismology Effort in International Antarctic Study
October 21, 2008
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Douglas A. Wiens, Ph.D., professor and chair of earth and planetary sciences in arts and sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., will head the seismology research team of an ambitious international effort to map and analyze an unknown part of Antarctica. The project is called AGAP (Antarctica's Gamburtsev Province), after the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, which are the main feature of the region.
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Source Washington University in St. Louis
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