Project	Reconstructing Tropical Pacific climate variability, and monsoon systems and abrupt changes from ice cores on Irian Jaya, Indonesia and Hualcan, Peru
Principal Investigator	R. Dwi Susanto, Ph.D.
Grant	National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
Collaborators	Lonnie G. Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, USA Dr. Sriworo Harijono, Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG), Jakarta, Indonesia.
Objectives	To reconstruct the regional history of temperature and precipitation and thus to produce a high resolution record of Asian monsoon/El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variations To document the ice thickness and calculate ice volumes To explore the potential to produce black carbon and fire histories from these ice cores as possible ENSO markers To determine a possibility of Papua ice core history as a proxy of the Indonesian throughflow
Media Coverages	Launching the Expedition in Papua-Indonesia, May-June 2010 Blogs of the expedition in Papua-Indonesia, May-June 2010

Figure 1. Sea surface temperature during La Nina condition in November 1998 (top) and El Nino condition in November 1997 (bottom). Stars represent location of ice cores in either side of Pacific ocean (Papua-Indonesia and Haulcan-Peru). Ice cores in both places may reveal ENSO conditions in the last 5000 years depending on the ice thickness.