Scientists use GPS to monitor Antarctic Ice Sheet. (News Link).

GEO World, December, 2002

Antarctica occupies a key location in the global system of tectonic plates as well as the global climate system. The future of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) and the corresponding effect on sea level is largely controlled by the behavior of the lithosphere underlying the ice sheet.

The West Antarctic GPS Network (WAGN) project uses the Global Positioning System (GPS) to measure crustal motions of the bedrock underlying and surrounding the WAIS. WAGN is a joint project sponsored by the National Science Foundation and involves scientists from the University of Texas at Austin Institute for Geophysics, the Pacific OPS Facility at the University of Hawaii School of Ocean Science and Technology, and the Center for Earthquake Research and Information at the...

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