3. Acknowledgments

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I would like to thank Antarctica New Zealand staff based in Christchurch and at Scott Base for their dedicated and innovative support with our project. I would like to thank Nathan Cross, Lyall Cross, and Paul Rogers for the assistance with my field work. I'm indebted for the support by Helicopter NZ staff, in particular Rob McPhail. I would like to thank the National Isotope Centre, GNS Science, Ms Valerie Claymore, the Geochemical Laboratory, Victoria University, Prof. Joel Baker, and the Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Prof. Paul Mayewski for ice core analyses. I'm indebted to Dr. Tim Haskell, Industrial Research Limited for lending us their shallow firn drilling system. This project is funded by Victoria University of Wellington, GNS Science, and Foundation for Research, Science, and Technology (Grant No. VICX0704 and CO5X0202).