Welcome to the Offshore New Harbor Project Website!

The 2008 ONH Seismic and Gravity Expedition begins on October 6. You can keep up to date about the expedition by clicking the links on the left panel for:

  • news updates;
  • the exciting educational activities developed for this expedition; and
  • for reading our blogs detailing the adventures and experiences we have during the expedition.

The Offshore New Harbor Project: Investigating the Greenhouse World to Icehouse World Transitions
The goal of the Offshore New Harbor (ONH) Project is to study sediments deposited in Antarctica during the Greenhouse World. More...

 

Looking Back into Our Future
A growing body of knowledge indicates that these changes are due to increased concentrations of greenhouse gases such as CO2 in our atmosphere. More...

 

In Search of One of Antarctica's “Holy Grails”
Although a wealth of data from deep sea and terrestrial records provide a detailed story of climate changes at low and mid latitudes, first-order questions remain about how climate and the ice sheet changed in Antarctica. More...

 

Phase I: Imaging the Greenhouse World
The Offshore New Harbor Seismic and Gravity Expedition
(October-December, 2008)

The goal of the Offshore New Harbor (ONH) Project is to study sediments deposited in Antarctica during the Greenhouse World. More...

 

Phase II: Drilling the Greenhouse World
Developing a Strategy to Drill One of Antarctica’s “Holy Grails”

After the expedition, the seismic and gravity data will be processed, analyzed, and then interpreted to reconstruct the geometry of these greenhouse world sediments. More...

 

 

 

Sponsors

National Science Foundation

NSF Office of Polar Programs

 

 

 


 

Partners

Andrill
Queens College
City University of New York
Montana Tech
Harlem Children's Zone
SPRINTT
NY Hall of Science
Urban Science
The GLOBE Program
Reach the World
Global Nomads Group
International Polar Year
History of Winter   Ice Stories   KGNU
Center for Teaching and Learning   Blogging at Queens College