Meet the editors

Dr. Masaki Kanao obtained his Ph.D. from Kyoto University. He is currently working at the National Institute of Polar Research in Tokyo. He is chiefly interested in the Earth's structure and evolution from geoscience studies. Polar regions, both in Arctic and Antarctic, have been investigated by geophysical investigations particularly by passive and active seismic sources. He is also interested in the present Earth's dynamics and tectonics of the

continental lithosphere. The Antarctic continent, as a member of the past Gondwana super-continent, has been the main target to reveal lithospheric evolution history. Recently, inter-disciplinary studies in terms of glacial earthquakes, cryoseismic events in Greenland and Antarctica have been focusing on involving environmental changes associated with global warming. These investigations in polar regions have been contributing to the development of all kinds of global Earth sciences.

Dr. Danilo Godone holds a Ph.D. in "Agriculture, Forest and Food Sciences", with his doctorate's topic being the cryosphere's phenomena monitoring by innovative geomatic methodologies. Currently he is a Research Scientist in the Geohazard Monitoring Group (CNR IRPI), studying geomatic contribution in natural hazard monitoring and analysis. His main research interests are landslides, glaciers and, more generally, natural disasters.

During his activities, he has developed skills in GIS, R programming, and land surveying with UAVs, GNSS, and LiDAR. He was also involved in several scientific expeditions in the Alps, Nepal, Chilean Andes, and Patagonia. He is a member of NATRISK - Research Centre on Natural Risks in Mountain and Hilly Environments, in Turin University.

Dr. Niccolò Dematteis received his M.S. degree in Physics and he obtained his Ph.D. in Earth Sciences at Pavia University in 2020. He is involved in proximal remote sensing of glaciers and other gravitational processes. His activities concern the measurement of surface deformations using active and passive sensors, like radar interferometers and optical imagery, and data integration techniques. His research interests include glacier monitoring,

glacial hazards, and data processing implementation. He is currently affiliated with the Geo-hazards Monitoring Group and works in Turin, Italy.

Contents

Gas Hydrates in Antarctica

and Climate Predictions

Corridor

*and Danilo Godone*

*by Migdat Hodzic and Ivan Kennedy*

*by Jair Putzke and Antonio Batista Pereira*

*by Yoshihiro Fujise and Luis A. Pastene*

Close-Range Sensing of Alpine Glaciers

*by Mauro Gobbi and Valeria Lencioni*

Ecosystem of the Indo-Pacific Sector of the Antarctic

*Muhammad Zaman, Sarfraz Hashim and Sher Muhammad*

*by Michela Giustiniani and Umberta Tinivella*

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 21**

**Chapter 3 37**

**Chapter 4 63**

**Chapter 5 85**

**Chapter 6 105**

**Chapter 7 123**

**Chapter 8 143**

Geomorphological Insight of Some Ice Free Areas of Eastern Antarctica

The Vegetation of the South Shetland Islands and the Climatic Change

Whales as Indicators of Historical and Current Changes in the Marine

Risks of Glaciers Lakes Outburst Flood along China Pakistan Economic

*by Daniele Giordan, Niccolò Dematteis, Fabrizio Troilo, Valerio Segor* 

Glacial Biodiversity: Lessons from Ground-dwelling and Aquatic Insects

*by Muhammad Saifullah, Shiyin Liu, Muhammad Adnan, Muhammad Ashraf,* 

*by Rasik Ravindra, Badanal Siddaiah Mahesh and Rahul Mohan*

Kalman Filter Harmonic Bank for Vostok Ice Core Data Analysis
