Christine Siddoway

Christine Siddoway is a field geologist whose expertise spans structural and metamorphic geology. Beginning in 1989, her work in Antarctica has focused on the geology and tectonics of western Marie Byrd Land and the Ross Embayment, that make up the major part of the West Antarctic rift system. Over 35 years, her investigations have entailed 6 seasons working from remote, self-supported camps; two international expeditions (German, Italian); large multi-institution collaborations that employed geophysical remote sensing; and collaboration on the compilation of the first online, full-continent digital map of Antarctica (Antarctic GeoMAP, SCAR). Currently she is investigating iceberg-rafted detritus (IRD) from IODP379 in the Amundsen Sea, to extend knowledge of subglacial bedrock of West Antarctica and Pliocene fluctuations in extent of the WAIS. An extraordinary quantity of crystalline clasts, and rare sedimentary clasts reached the IODP379 and IODP382 deepwater drill sites.