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Bruce Luyendyk

Bruce P. Luyendyk, professor (emeritus) at the University of California Santa Barbara, remained active in international Antarctic research for 25 years. He was responsible for two expeditions and was principal investigator for five marine geophysical expeditions focusing on the Ross Sea area. His cumulative research, findings, and publications have significantly increased scientific knowledge in Antarctica. Bruce received formal education in geophysics, a branch of geology, and in oceanography. While an undergraduate, just nineteen years old, he took a six-month leave to participate in a deep-sea research voyage to the western and South Pacific. His experiences on this expedition, PROA, the name of a Polynesian sailing canoe, will be the subject of a future memoir.
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Antarctica: The Problem Child of future sea level change in this century
Sea Level Rise / White Ocean of Ice: Finding Zealandia

Antarctica: The Problem Child of future sea level change in this century

Iceberg Ross Sea, Antarctica. Photo © Bruce Luyendyk A few weeks ago I posted about discoveries that showed dynamic collapse of marine-based parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is …

alchen Glacier, Marie Byrd Land, 1990. Photo B. Luyendyk
Sea Level Rise / White Ocean of Ice: Finding Zealandia

Antarctic Ice Sheets – the fuse has been lit.

Snowmobile party crossing the blue ice of Balchen Glacier, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica. Photo © Bruce Luyendyk Have the Antarctic Ice Sheets reached the Point of No Return? This …

Birchall Peaks, Fosdick Mountains, Marie Byrd Land, 1989. Photo B. Luyendyk
White Ocean of Ice: Finding Zealandia

Big Dead Place – The Man Who Loved Antarctica

Reprinted here is my Amazon review of this book… Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica by Nicholas Johnson Snowmobiles in the Birchall Peaks, Marie Byrd …

Terra Nova Bay, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica
White Ocean of Ice: Finding Zealandia

AAAS; What We Know – about Climate Change, Antarctica

Terra Nova Bay, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Photo © B. Luyendyk The AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) recently issued a web page and a short booklet (http://whatweknow.aaas.org) addressing issues …

FORCE team unloading in Fosdick Mountains, Marie Byrd Land, December, 1989. Photo B. Luyendyk
White Ocean of Ice: Finding Zealandia

FORCE Team explores Ford Ranges, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica

Hercules from VXE-6 unloads FORCE team, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, December 1989. Photo © B. Luyendyk Our work focused in on the Fosdick, Phillips and Chester Mountains in the northern Ford …

FORCE team on Put-In day December 1989. Photo B. Luyendyk
White Ocean of Ice: Finding Zealandia

The FORCE Expeditions (Ford Ranges Crustal Exploration) 1989-90, 1990-91

Tucker, Steve, Cain, Dave, Bruce and Christine, Put-In day to Ford Ranges. Photo © Bruce Luyendyk White Ocean of Ice deals with investigation of plate tectonic history in the Southwestern Pacific. …

Birchall Peaks, Fosdick Mountains, Marie Byrd Land, 1989. Photo B. Luyendyk
White Ocean of Ice: Finding Zealandia

White Ocean, Richard Byrd and the Ford Ranges

Birchall Peaks.  Photo © Bruce Luyendyk Richard E. Byrd first explored Marie Byrd Land (MBL) in West Antarctica in the early part of the Twentieth Century in three expeditions. Byrd’s expeditions …

Barnett Glacier Northern Victoria Land
White Ocean of Ice: Finding Zealandia

Antarctic Ice Sheet – growing or shrinking?

Posted by SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research): “What will Antarctica and the Southern Ocean look like in 2065?” The 1st Martha T. Muse Fellows Colloquium; 22 April 2014; Queenstown, New …

FORCE geologists atop Swarm Peak, Christmas Eve 1989. Photo Steve Tucker
White Ocean of Ice: Finding Zealandia

A Memoir of Exploration in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica

My first post in my first blog. This quotation explains why I am writing a memoir of my first expedition to Antarctica: Steve, Christine, Bruce, Dave; Marie Byrd Land.  photo © …

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