Insights Into the Sea-Level History of the South Shetland Islands From Ground Penetrating Radar on Livingston Island, Antarctica

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Throughout my contributions to Antarctic sedimentary geology, I have received a great deal of both professional and personal support.First and foremost, I must thank my master's advisor Dr. Alexander Simms. Alex has sat through countless conversations about my research and given me equally as much feedback professionally as he has in my personal life. Without his guidance, patience, understanding, and subject expertise I would not have completed this thesis.I am grateful to have been able to work internationally for my MS project, which was made possible by funding provided by the National Science Foundation. I want to extend my appreciation to The United States Antarctic Program and the crew of the RSV Lawrence M. Gould. The United States Antarctic Program also provided our research team with field guides Cara Ferrier and Robin Carroccia. Their camp maintenance, safety, meal prep and company made fieldwork enjoyable in otherwise austere conditions.I want to thank Dr. Vamsi Ganti and Dr. David Lea for serving on my committee and for their feedback on where to steer my project and valuable insight into concepts I had not previously considered. Graduate school was made much more navigable by my fellow graduate students in Earth Science through constant discussion, scientific and otherwise. My lab mates Brittany Theilen and Julie Zurbuchen provided the bulk of this interaction through Julie's expertise in my specific field of study and Brittany through her comradery in the field and discussions about our study area.Although not compiled in this work, I want to thank our fellow scientists Dr. Regina DeWitt and PhD student Christopher Garcia at East Carolina University for hosting me and teaching me about sample preparation for optically stimulated luminescence age dating. I felt very welcome in their lab and spent a summer preparing many OSL samples from Joinville and Livingston Islands.My most sincere appreciation is extended to Marianne Okal from UNAVCO for finding missing GPS data on our field equipment and processing it in a creative way using data from regional GPS base stations and being thorough and prompt in all responses. I would also like to thank other members at UNAVCO Thomas Neilen and Spencer Niebuhr for assisting with GPS processing.After my advisor, Dr. Simms, the first person I spoke to at UCSB was the Earth Science Graduate Program Coordinator, Yann Ricard. Yann has found numerous creative ways to get the job done with myself and all the other graduate students' best interests remaining his top priority. For this, and for all the conversations in between, I want to thank Yann for making me feel welcome when that was in doubt.I would like to thank the UCSB Veteran Resource Center, specifically Colby Dillard, for making me feel at home at UCSB and for his hard work in bringing the center and the UCSB military community into focus on campus. His unwavering dedication to his mission and advocacy for our community has assisted me and so many other veterans in our education, and in life.Lastly, I would li...

La producción científica sobre playas levantadas en las Islas Shetland del Sur (Antártida Marítima)

“…por ejemplo en uno de los primeros trabajos publicados como son los de John & Sudgen (1971) y Curl (1980), la altura de las playas levantadas se mide con respecto al nivel del mar en vez de tomar como referencia la altura de la playa de tormenta moderna o actual (Gernant, 2021;Kouremenos, 2008),donde se tiene en cuenta la variación local de la elevación de la playa, relacionada con la variación del régimen del oleaje.…”