Meet the editors

Dr. Masaki Kanao obtained his PhD degree from Kyoto University. He is currently working at the National Institute of Polar Research in Tokyo, Japan. He is chiefly interested in Earth's structure and evolution from a seismological point of view. He investigated the polar regions, both in the Arctic and Antarctic, as passive and active seismic sources. Dr. Kanao is also interested in the dynamics and tectonics of Earth's continental lithosphere.

The Antarctic continent, as a member of the past Gondwana supercontinent, has been the main focus of his work to reveal the history of the lithospheric evolution. Dr. Kanao has also been studying glacial earthquakes—cryoseismic events—in Greenland and Antarctica associated with environmental changes triggered by global warming. These investigations in the polar regions contributed to the development of global Earth sciences, as well as the Federation of Digital Seismological Network and the International Lithospheric Program, which are all affiliated with the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior.

Dr. Genti Toyokuni is an assistant professor at the Department of Geophysics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. He received his BSc (2004), MSc (2006), and DSc (2009) degrees from Kyushu University, Japan. He was a part-time teacher of earth science at the National Institute of Technology, Kurume College, Japan, during 2007–2009, and a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Polar Research, Japan, during 2009–2011. His research

interests include polar seismology (cryoseismology), seismic waveform analysis, numerical modeling of seismic wave propagation, and seismic tomography. He is a member of the Greenland Ice Sheet Monitoring Network (GLISN) and has been participating in field observations of the Greenland ice sheet every year since 2011 with other US and Japanese GLISN members.

Masa-yuki Yamamoto, PhD, is currently affiliated with Kochi University of Technology (KUT), Japan. He specializes in upper atmospheric physics, developing in-situ and remote-sensing equipment and collaborating with JAXA and NASA, as well as with amateur astronomers and high school students. He majored in geophysics and graduated from the Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, in 2001. After taking a position as a

researcher at the Communications Research Laboratory, Tokyo, he moved to KUT as a lecturer in 2003. He became a professor at the School of Systems Engineering in 2013. His specialty is geophysics, especially atmospheric sensing using infrasound observations and sounding rockets. A minor planet was recently named Masayukiyamamoto (58184) by T. Seki, who discovered it in 1991.

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 5**

**Chapter 3 21**

**Chapter 4 41**

**Chapter 5 59**

**Chapter 6 75**

**Chapter 7 93**

**Chapter 8 103**

ULF Geomagnetic Activity Signatures in the Atmospheric Parameters in

*by Mauro Regi, Marcello De Lauretis, Gianluca Redaelli and Patrizia Francia*

*by Joaquim Porté, Joan Lluis Pijoan, Josep Masó, David Badia, Agustín Zaballos* 

Advanced HF Communications for Remote Sensors in Antarctica

New Perspectives on Blowing Snow in Antarctica and Implications for

The Climate of the Antarctic Peninsula during the Twentieth Century:

Characteristic Infrasound Events Associated with Sea-Ice Discharges in

*by Takahiko Murayama, Masaki Kanao and Masa-Yuki Yamamoto*

Water Balance and Thermal Regime of Lakes in Antarctic Oases *by Elena Shevnina, Ekaterina Kourzeneva and Mohammad Nuruzzama*

*by Stephen P. Palm, Yuekui Yang and Vinay Kayetha*

*by Elizabeth R. Thomas and Dieter R. Tetzner*

the Lützow-Holm Bay of Antarctica: April 2016

*by Giichiro Ohno, Shinji Otani and Atsushi Ikeda*

Introductory Chapter: Antarctica - A Key to Global Change

*by Masaki Kanao*

Contents

*and Rosa Maria Alsina-Pagès*

Ice Sheet Mass Balance

Evidence from Ice Cores

Human Beings in Antarctica

Antarctica
