Cutting-Edge Research

Dr. Trevor Williams is one of Lamont's "Renaissance Men"--both a gifted scientist and also an accomplished painter. You can see some of his artwork here and here. He has also produced a set of "Water Movies." 

Trevor earned his B.Sc. at Durham University and Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh. He was part of the Borehole Research Group at Leicester University, before joining the Lamont Borehole Research Group in 1999 as a Log Analyst.  He has participated in six legs of the Ocean Drilling Project between 1996 and 2005.  Trevor will soon depart for Antarctica to participate in ANDRILL, about which he will talk in today's Workshop.

ANDRILL is the newest geological drilling program in the ongoing effort to recover stratigraphic records from the Antarctic region. ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing) is a multinational collaboration comprised of more than 200 scientists, students, and educators from five nations (Germany, Italy, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States) to recover stratigraphic records from the Antarctic margin using Cape Roberts Project (CRP) technology. The chief objective is to drill back in time to recover a history of paleoenvironmental changes that will guide our understanding of how fast, how large, and how frequent were glacial and interglacial changes in the Antarctica region. Future scenarios of global warming require guidance and constraint from past history that will reveal potential timing frequency and site of future changes. You can learn more about ANDRILL here.