Smelly penguins, research await Oklahoma State University team in Antarctica

 
SUSAN SIMPSON
Published: August 8, 2009

STILLWATER — An Oklahoma State University professor and two students will spend six weeks this spring braving Antarctic snow and wind to study sea level changes over the past 10,000 years.

Geology professor Alex Simms will choose two graduate students to help collect beach deposits that will be dated to shed light into how ice sheets respond to sea level and climate change. The project is funded by a $200,0...


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