Research Associate
ACCEC
Office: 412 Davis Hall
Phone: (815) 753-7948
E-mail: swvogel@niu.edu
2004, Ph.D - Earth Sciences, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of California - Santa Cruz, Thesis: The Basal Regime Of The West-Antarctic Ice Sheet -Interaction Of Subglacial Geology With Ice Dynamics
1998, Staatsexamen (equivalent to combined Master’s) in Geography and Physical Education Institute of Physical Geography (IPG), Albert-Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg, Germany, Thesis: Snow Cover Dynamics and One-Dimensional Energy Fluxes at a Site in the Schwarzwald (Blackforest, Germany)
1989, Abitur, Leibniz-Gymnasium, Rottweil Germany (graduation from Gymnasium (High School)
ANDRILL
ANDRILL is a multi-national collaboration studying the geological record of Antarctica climate and ice sheet evolution. Scientists and funding come from Germany, Italy, New Zealand and the United States. Currently ANDRILL has two drilling project funded: the McMurdo Ice Shelf project (MIS, 2006 field season) and the Southern McMurdo Sound project (SMS, 2007). Further information about ANDRLL can be found at http://andrill.org.
Within ANDRILL I am involved in the MIS project. I am a member of the ANDRILL MIS on-ice science team, which means that I have been working together with about 58 other scientists at McMurdo station during the 2006/07 drilling operation. Work conducted during this initial core characterization was used to provide an initial characterization of the recovered sediment cores. The work is currently continued focusing on specific scientific questions.
My main scientific interest in the ANDRILL MIS project is to decipher subglacial hydrological processes and paleo subglacial environmental conditions from a authogenic carbonate record. Carbonates formed in a subglacial environment (glacial carbonates, see also the subglacial environment section) are easily distinguishable from carbonates formed in marine environment (marine carbonates) using stable isotopes. My work will help to constrain glacial and interglacial periods, one of the main goals of the ANDRILL MIS project. Using the geochemical composition of the carbonates provides further information on the subglacial environment and geochemical and hydrological processes, help identifying the sediment deposition beneath the Ross Ice Shelf and the climatic evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet outside of McMurdo over the past 5 to 10 million years.
Read my ANDRILL MIS Blog, describing some of my work and life as a researcher in Antarctica. Read more background information about the science objectives of ANDRILL at http://andrill.org and learn about the educational and outreach activites of ADNRILL at Project Iceberg.
Vogel, S. (2008), Fire and Ice, Nature Geoscience, doi 10.1038/ngeo117, pages 91-92.
Vogel, S.W. (2007) Subglacial Environments - Potential For AUV And ROV Operation In A Sub Ice Environment. In Collins, K and Griffiths, G. (eds) AUV Science in Extreme Environments. SUT London, Proceedings of the Workshop on AUV Science in Extreme Environments, 11-13th April 2007, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, UK.
Vogel S.W., R.D. Powell, I. Griffith, K. Anderson, T. Lawson, S.A. Schiraga, T. Lawson (2007). Ice-Borehole ROV- A New Tool For Subglacial Research. In Collins, K and Griffiths, G. (eds) AUV Science in Extreme Environments. SUT, London, Proceedings of the Workshop on AUV Science in Extreme Environments, 11-13th April 2007, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, UK.
Vogel, S. W. and S. Tulaczyk, (2006). Ice-dynamical constraints on the existence and impact of subglacial volcanism on West Antarctic ice sheet stability. Geophysical Research Letters 33, L23502, doi:10.1029/2006GL027345.
Vogel, S. W., S. Tulaczyk, S. P. Carter, P. Renne and B. Turrin (2006). Geologic constraints on the existence, distribution and impact of West Antarctic subglacial volcanism. Geophysical Research Letters. 33, L23501. doi:10.1029/2006GL027344