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Request ID	Request Date	Organization	Project	IPY Classification	Latitude	Longitude	Radius	Feature	Media	Lens	Viewing Angle	Lighting	Description	Key Words	Status	Results
13	2007-12-04	INDIVIDUAL	INDIVIDUAL	INDIVIDUAL	44.9	29.6	1		still images	undefined	nadir	daylight	See below	Sfantu Gheorghe Danube Delta Romania	Rejected	Request not related to NASA IPY objectives
I need an precise image of that area near Sfantu Gheorghe on the Danube in order to set some paths on the small canals for a kayak adventure.
12	2007-12-04	Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute		NSF, Antarctic biology and Medicine	-62.0	-50.0	2	BLUE MARBLE	still images	undefined	oblique	daylight	See below	Icebergs Weddell Sea Antarctic Peninsula NW Weddell Sea	Accepted
Free-drifting icebergs as proliferating dispersion sites of iron enrichment, organic carbon production and export in the Southern Ocean. I represent a group of US scientists that plan to conduct an NSF study of free-drifting icebergs as proliferating dispersion sites of iron enrichment, organic carbon production and export in the Southern Ocean. Our project is scheduled for funding beginning this summer with two cruises, one in June 2008 and the other in March-April 2009. Although our research is not being funded specifically under the IPY program, our iceberg study is directly related to climate warming and the impact of proliferating icebergs on the Southern Ocean ecosystem and the global carbon cycle. Our primary study site will be the Weddell Sea to the east of the Antarctic Peninsula, an area that is shown in NASA images taken from the ISS. We would like to request ISS photo-images taken of this study area, dubbed “iceberg alley”, concurrently with our two cruises to augment scheduled satellite images (Quikscat and Radarsat) of the same area.
10	2007-12-04	National Snow and Ice Data Center	Antarctic Peninsula Ice and Climate System	Antarctic Science	-50.0	-40.0	1		still images	telephoto	oblique	daylight	See below	iceberg southern atlantic ocean iceshelves climate change	Completed with photos	Several useful images of iceberg A22A (and subsequent fragments) were acquired and transmitted to requestor.
PIs Ted Scambos University of Colorado, Douglas MacAyeal University of Chicago We saw the article in the recent EOS, which makes reference to the viewing of icebergs from the ISS. APICS is an IPY program studying the breakup of ice shelves and the effects of climate. Early on in the research the science team realized that icebergs provide natural experiments of the behavior of ice plates. As tabular bergs move north, they undergo a rapid 'climate change' by encountering much warmer ocean and air temperatures. The region near South Georgia Island (54.33S 42W) appears to be a kind of 'iceberg graveyard' where icebergs rapidly thin, melt, and disintegrate. This process is difficult to capture by ordinary remote sensing. High-resolution sensors such as ASTER cannot be programmed to point to a berg location rapidly enough, given drift rates of 10s of kilometers per day. Landsat 7 (which has other problems) does not typically acquire over the open ocean, and even with a special request, would only cover a point on Earth about once every 16 days. RIGHT NOW, iceberg A22A is breaking up in the South Atlantic. Its last reported position was (50deg 2 min S -- 31deg 13min W, 14 April). A quick-look image from April 17 shows it slighly north of this position, and stil labout 40km across, norhteast of South Georgia by a few hundred km. A high-resolution color image IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS would be a critical piece of information, showing (or not) the existence of precursor rifts, melt ponds, the structure of the ice edge, smaller calved bergs, and possibly some indication of the freeboard of the berg (which lowers as the berg thins). Thanks for your help. ps We have worked together before, and a publication resulted, in Geophysical Research Letters, see http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2005/2005GL023802.shtml

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