East Antarctic warming forced by ice loss during the Last Interglacial by David K. Hutchinson, Laurie Menviel, Katrin J. Meissner, Andrew McC. Hogg

“…We find that changes in surface elevation induce surface warming over East Antarctica of 2 to 4 °C, and sea surface temperature (SST) increases in the Weddell and Ross Seas by up to 2 °C. …”
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Progress in Mesozoic-Cenozoic paleomagnetism and plate reconstruction of West Antarctica by GAO Liang

“…Plate reconstructions identified two widely influenced tectonic events in West Antarctica due to the subduction of the Pacific Plate, including the rapid southward drift of Thurston Island-Eights Coast and Eastern Marie Byrd Land during the eruption of Ontong Java-Manihiki-Hikurangi Large Igneous Provinces and related peak global ocean crust production rate at 120~100 Ma; The lithospheric extension in the Ross Sea region and rapid separation of Thurston Island-Eights Coast and Marie Byrd Land from East Antarctica, as well as the southward drift and clockwise rotation of the Antarctic Peninsula due to the subduction of Pacific-Phoenix Ridge under the Ross sea region at~100 Ma. …”
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Verification of Estimated Cosmic Neutron Intensities Using a Portable Neutron Monitoring System in Antarctica by Hiroshi Yasuda, Naoyuki Kurita, Kazuaki Yajima

“…As a result of measurements in the east Antarctica region covering a wide range of altitudes (from 30 m to 3762 m) and comparisons with the model calculations performed with an analytical model based on comprehensive Monte Carlo simulations (PARMA), it was demonstrated that the portable neutron-monitoring system could be effectively applied for periodic verification of cosmic-neutron intensities that would improve the reliability of related studies.…”
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Report on the geomorphological survey in the Soya Coast (JARE-61) by Takeshige Ishiwa, Yuki Tokuda, Takuya Itaki, Satoshi Sasaki

“…The geomorphological survey is conducted in the 61st Japanese Research Antarctic Research Expedition, and the objective of this survey is to obtain sea-level and ice-sheet records from Lützow-Holm Bay in East Antarctica. We measured the bathymetry and collected sediment samples in shallow water of Langhovde. …”

Understanding of an Iceberg Breaking Off Event Based on Ice-Front Motion Analysis of Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica by Zhaohui Chi, Andrew Klein

“…On 26 September 2019, a massive iceberg broke off the west side of the Amery Ice Shelf (AIS) in East Antarctica. Since 1973, the AIS calving front has steadily advanced at a rate of 1.0 km yr⁻¹. …”
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Apatite Fission Track Signatures of the Ross Sea Ice Flows During the Last Glacial Maximum by X. Li, M. Zattin, V. Olivetti

“…Fission track ages have been divided into meaningful populations and then compared with bedrock ages from West and East Antarctica. Furthermore, fission track lengths have been measured on each population and then compared through forward modeling with thermal histories derived from literature. …”
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Factors influencing seasonal changes in the respiration of Drepanopus bispinosus (Copepoda:Calanoida) in Burton Lake, a marine derived saline lake in the Vestfold Hills, Antarctica by Zipan Wang

“…Oxygen consumption of adult females of Drepanopus bispinosus living in a marine derived saline lake in East Antarctica was measured under different conditions of temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen and food concentration both in winter and summer. …”
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Large-scale outbursts of lakes in the Antarctic oases: current knowledge by A. S. Boronina

“…This article presents historical and the present- day data and descriptions of lake outbursts located in the oases of East Antarctica. The study is based on the generalization of both published and unpublished materials presented in the funds of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (St. …”
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An application of wastewater treatment in a cold environment and stable lipase production of Antarctic basidiomycetous yeast Mrakia blollopis. by Masaharu Tsuji, Yuji Yokota, Kodai Shimohara, Sakae Kudoh, Tamotsu Hoshino

“…For the purpose of solving this problem by using a bio-remediation agent, we screened Antarctic yeasts and isolated SK-4 strain from algal mat of sediments of Naga-ike, a lake in Skarvsnes, East Antarctica. The yeast strain showed high nucleotide sequence homologies (>99.6%) to Mrakia blollopis CBS8921(T) in ITS and D1/D2 sequences and had two unique characteristics when applied on an active sludge; i.e., it showed a potential to use various carbon sources and to grow under vitamin-free conditions. …”
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Calving cycle of the Brunt Ice Shelf, Antarctica, driven by changes in ice shelf geometry by J. De Rydt, G. H. Gudmundsson, T. Nagler, J. Wuite

“…The Brunt Ice Shelf in East Antarctica presents a rare natural laboratory to study these processes, following the recent formation of two rifts, each now exceeding 50 km in length. …”
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A baseline-combination method for precise estimation of ice motion in antarctica by Zhou, Y, Zhou, C, Dongchen, E, Wang, Z

“…The refined technique is tested in the Grove Mountains area, East Antarctica. Ice-flow velocities from the baseline-combination method are in good agreement with those measured by short-baseline interferograms. …”

Genetic population structure in the Antarctic benthos: insights from the widespread amphipod, Orchomenella franklini. by Helena Phoenix Baird, Karen Joy Miller, Jonathan Sean Stark

“…Seven microsatellite loci were used to assess genetic structure on three spatial scales: sites (100 s of metres), locations (1-10 kilometres) and regions (1000 s of kilometres) sampled in East Antarctica at Casey and Davis stations. Considerable genetic diversity was revealed, which varied between the two regions and also between polluted and unpolluted sites. …”
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Simultaneous DNA-based diet analysis of breeding, non-breeding and chick Adélie penguins by Julie C. McInnes, Louise Emmerson, Colin Southwell, Cassandra Faux, Simon N. Jarman

“…We used DNA dietary analysis to determine whether there was a difference in provisioning and self-feeding diet by identifying prey DNA in scat samples from breeding and chick Adélie penguins at two locations in East Antarctica. We also investigated diet differences between breeders and non-breeders at one site. …”
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Glaciological settings and recent mass balance of Blåskimen Island in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica by V. Goel, J. Brown, J. Brown, K. Matsuoka

“…The ice-shelf-fringed coast of Dronning Maud Land in East Antarctica contains numerous ice rises that influence the dynamics and mass balance of the region. …”
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Reference crust-mantle density contrast beneath Antarctica based on the Vening Meinesz-Moritz isostatic inverse problem and CRUST2.0 seismic model by Robert Tenzer, Mohammad Bagherbandi

“…The maxima exceeding 500 kg/m3 are found throughout the central part of East Antarctica with the extension under the Transantarctic mountain range. …”
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Endolithic and hypolithic soil-like systems: structure and composition from the macroto submicro-levels by N. S. Mergelov, I. G. Shorkunov, A. V. Dolgikh, V. A. Shishkov, E. P. Zazovskaya, V. O. Targulian, S. V. Goryachkin

“…Examined profiles of endolithic systems in granitoids of East Antarctica with high quartz content had clear eluvial-illuvial differentiation patterns. …”
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Mid–Late Neoproterozoic rift-related volcanic rocks in China: Geological records of rifting and break-up of Rodinia by Linqi Xia, Zuchun Xia, Xueyi Xu, Xiangmin Li, Zhongping Ma

“…This rift-related volcanism at end of the Mid–Neoproterozoic and Early Cambrian coincided temporally with the separation between Australia–East Antarctica, South China and Laurentia and between Australia and Tarim, respectively. …”
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Drilling operations for the South Pole Ice Core (SPICEcore) project by Jay A. Johnson, Tanner Kuhl, Grant Boeckmann, Chris Gibson, Joshua Jetson, Zachary Meulemans, Kristina Slawny, Joseph M. Souney

“…This core provided a high-resolution record of paleoclimate conditions in East Antarctica during the Holocene and late Pleistocene. …”
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The EDC3 chronology for the EPICA Dome C ice core by F. Parrenin, J.-M. Barnola, J. Beer, T. Blunier, E. Castellano, J. Chappellaz, G. Dreyfus, H. Fischer, S. Fujita, J. Jouzel, K. Kawamura, B. Lemieux-Dudon, L. Loulergue, V. Masson-Delmotte, B. Narcisi, J.-R. Petit, G. Raisbeck, D. Raynaud, U. Ruth, J. Schwander, M. Severi, R. Spahni, J. P. Steffensen, A. Svensson, R. Udisti, C. Waelbroeck, E. Wolff

“…The EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica) Dome C drilling in East Antarctica has now been completed to a depth of 3260 m, at only a few meters above bedrock. …”
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Evaluation of the Antarctic Boundary Layer Thermodynamic Structure in MERRA2 Using Dropsonde Observations from the Concordiasi Campaign by Manisha Ganeshan, Yuekui Yang

“…Abstract Recent high‐resolution dropsonde observations from the 2010 Concordiasi field campaign in austral spring season show that surface‐based inversions (SBIs) over Antarctica are frequently eroded, with well‐mixed boundary layers occurring 33% and 18% of the time in West and East Antarctica, respectively. In this study, using the dropsonde observations, we evaluate the performance of the Modern‐Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, version 2 (MERRA2) in representing the Antarctic boundary layer thermodynamic structure. …”
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