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Borehole Optical Stratigraphy at the WAIS divide

BOSAW* is an NSF-funded project at the University of Washington. In November and December 2006, two researchers will travel to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet divide drill site to study patterns in snowfall.

We will use Borehole Optical Stratigraphy, a tool that lets us efficiently measure layers in the snow using simple instruments and lightweight coring hardware.

 We are: 

Ed Waddington Jessica Drees Ben Smith

Principle Investigator

edw** jdrees** ben**

**ess.washington.edu

 *The full name of the project is Spatial Variability in Firn Properties from Borehole Optical Stratigraphy at the Inland WAIS Core Site, but BOSAW is easier to say than SVFPBOSIWCS