Download or read book U.S. International Trans Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE). written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The University of Maine in Orono provides information about the U.S. International Trans Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE). The purpose of the ITASE is to study environmental change in Antarctica over the last 200 years. The U.S. effort focuses on West Antarctica in the areas of meteorology, remote sensing, ice coring, surface glaciology, and geophysics. Field reports, draft proposals, and other publications relating to the project are available.