Members of BYU’s competitive math team proved they are again among the top mathematics students in the nation, ranking ninth at this year’s William Lowell Putnam Exam.

One of the most prestigious universi-ty-level mathematics exams in the world, the Putnam Exam is an annual competi-tion for undergraduates in the United States, Canada, and Tel Aviv University in Israel.

The exam consists of two three-hour sessions with a lunch break in between. Any student can participate in the exam, but only three students from each uni-versity are chosen for the school’s of-ficial team, and their scores make up that university’s overall score.

Twenty-two students from BYU partici-pated in this year’s Putnam Exam. Sam Dittmer, a senior, placed in the top 50 and received an honorable mention. Two additional BYU students—Peter Baratta and Yifeng Xu—placed in the top 200 in the nation.

“It was both energizing and draining,” Dittmer said. “We felt we’d done well, but placing as highly as we did came as a pleasant surprise.”

Dittmer trained for the exam for five to ten hours each week during the four months leading up to it, but in a broad-er sense, he explained, he has been training for years.

“I’ve been actively involved in math contests since I was thirteen or four-teen,” he said. “It’s a gradual process of building up skills step by step until you get to the point where you can do really hard problems.”

Mathematics professor Dr. Tiancheng Ouyang coaches the students who par-ticipate in the Putnam exam, not all of whom are math majors. Dr. Ouyang believes the Putnam exam experience is valuable for anyone, regardless of discipline.

“This training will benefit you for your whole life,” Dr. Ouyang said. “Because you try to challenge yourself. You try

to do problems that look like they’re impossible. You make the impossible, possible.”

Read more about the Putnam Exam and the BYU Mathletes at http://news.byu.edu/archive14-apr-byumathletes.aspx

FACULTY newsletterMay | 2014

CPMS Physical and Mathematical Sciences

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Three BYU researchers are behind the wheel of a new effort to help the Utah Department of Transportation come closer to the goal of zero fatali-ties on Utah highways.

Led by civil engineering professor Grant Schultz, the team has developed

one of the country’s most advanced traffic safety models. Using Bayesian statistics, the model can predict the number of crashes expected on Utah’s roadways to help identify areas of concern.

The tool gives UDOT a new set of

keys to prioritize funding for improve-ments to the highest-risk roadway seg-ments. Those improvements are aimed at cutting down on the frequency and severity of crashes and, ultimately, keeping people safe on the road.

“Our goal here is to save lives,” Schultz said. “We’re just trying to do all that we can to truly reach the goal of zero fatalities on the roadways.”

Combined with a geographic infor-mation system, the model pinpoints hotspots where the number of crashes exceeds the number of predicted crash-es. With that information, UDOT can advise policy makers on which safety projects have the greatest potential to reduce serious injury and fatal crashes.

Coincidentally, one of the first hotspots identified by the model is next to BYU’s campus: the intersection of University Avenue (U.S. Route 189) and Bulldog Boulevard. The model re-vealed a greater-than-usual number of

Pinpointing Utah Highway Hotspots on the Road to Zero Fatalities

BYU Putnam Team Places 9th in Nation

by Meg Monk

Above: BYU Mathlete Sam Dittmer placed in the top 50 at this year’s annual Putnam Exam.

Above: Shane Reese, Grant Schultz and Mitsuru Saito developed a crash prediction model.

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For more than a decade now, you could say that the BYU Center for Ani-mation has “owned” the animation cat-egory at the College Television Awards, commonly called the “student Emmys.”

The tradition continued this year with BYU winning its 15th and 16th student Emmys in 11 years. Fittingly, this year’s big winner is titled Owned.

Owned took the first place award

in animation and Chasm earned the first place award for best use of music. For Richard Williams, who composed the score for Chasm, he’s done some owning himself. It’s his second student Emmy personally.

Owned is a comedic animated short. The brainchild of co-director Wesley Tippetts, it documents the experience of a pompous, disheveled video game champion, Jeff, who is brought to his knees in an online gaming experience against an unknown opponent. The op-ponent ends up being a baby, Abby. A twist near the end of the short results in a life-changing experience for the gamer.

Tippets said he’s proud of how the short turned out, how the team worked together and the BYU animation pro-gram as a whole. The students have a sense of responsibility to continue the award-winning tradition.

BYU Wins Big at “Student Emmys” for Owned, Chasm

Above: The entire BYU crew at the College Television Awards in Los Angeles.

An Unexpected Path to a Well-Deserved HonorDr. Milton Lee of the Department of

Chemistry and Biochemistry was recent-ly awarded the 2014 Lifetime Achieve-ment Award from LCGC Europe at the International Hyphenated Techniques in Chromatography Conference in Bru-ges, Belgium.

Lee, who is the H. Tracy Hall Profes-sor of Chemistry at BYU, has been a fac-ulty member in chemistry for thirty-eight years and has dedicated his career to advancing the field of chromatography, for which he was honored by LCGC (an acronym for “liquid chromatography gas chromatography”).

“It’s a very nice recognition,” Lee said of the award. “It isn’t just me; this comes with the support of many stu-dents over the years, the university that supports me and provides funding, and other faculty members who support my work.”

One of ten children, Lee had four brothers who were all going into chem-istry like their father, who was a faculty member in the chemistry department at Utah State University at the time.

“I avoided chemistry at the beginning because all my siblings had declared it as their major,” Lee said. “I just wanted to be different.”

Lee declared a math major, but quick-

ly switched to physics because for him math was “too boring.” It took three years before he would finally declare a chemistry major, a choice he has never regretted.

Lee graduated from the University of Utah with a bachelor’s degree in chem-istry in 1971. He went on to earn a PhD in analytical chemistry from Indiana University in 1975. Though he enjoyed his experiences as a doctoral student, Lee had never really intended to go into academia.

“I liked teaching and I also liked re-search, but I knew I would have to get tenure, and I was worried about gen-erating enough research,” he said. “I didn’t have enough self-confidence. . . . I wanted to go into industry because I didn’t want to compete.”

BYU offered Lee a position after his graduation from Indiana, but he turned it down to complete a post-doctoral research fellowship at MIT. A year passed, and BYU extended a second offer. He eventually accepted the offer and stayed.

In his thirty-eight years at BYU, Lee has published 568 peer-reviewed ar-ticles, and mentored sixty-six gradu-ate students and thirty postdoctoral researchers.

“I have never regretted not going into industry,” Lee said. “I got an offer once, which was double my salary here, but I turned it down. . . . I like it here.”

Lee dedicates most of his time to his research and teaching, but in his spare moments, he enjoys being outdoors and staying active.

“I run about five miles four to five days a week,” he said. “I wouldn’t say I like it . . . but I need to be physically fit so I can do more research!”

continued on page 4

Above: Dr. Milton Lee recieves the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award.

by Meg Monk

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Knowing how important gamma ( ) alumina is to industrial and aca-demic scientists, a few chemists and physicists at BYU have studied this ma-terial to see how they can further un-derstand and control its properties.

Together with former graduate stu-dent Stacey Smith, who recently joined the Department of Chemistry and Bio-chemistry, Branton Campbell (Depart-ment of Physics and Astronomy), Brian Woodfield and Julie Boerio-Goates (Department of Chemistry and Bio-chemistry) did extensive work on the lo-cal atomic structure of gamma alumina nanoparticles prepared using a novel process. Their work was published in 2013 in the Journal of Inorganic Chem-istry under the title “Phase Progression of -Al2O3 Nanoparticles Synthesized in a Solvent-Deficient Environment.”

“Brian Woodfield and Julie Boerio-Goates have been making nanopar-ticles for years and have also been searching for new ways to control the properties of -alumina,” Campbell said. “The alumina phase diagram is really complicated—it contains at least nine different phases and possibly as many as fifteen. Depending on what phase you start with and what process-ing conditions you impose, you can tra-verse the phase diagram via many dif-ferent pathways as you work your way toward the thermodynamically-stable alpha ( ) phase.”

Although -alumina is important, the concern about energy today makes

-alumina the “hands-down winner” for energy applications that use chemical catalysis. Today in industries through-

out the world, -alumina is an impor-tant commodity because it serves as a catalyst support for industrial reactions such as the one in a car’s catalytic con-verter. Two of -alumina’s most critical properties are a high internal surface area and good thermal stability, mak-ing it a versatile support for many dif-ferent applications.

“Many catalytic reactions use plati-num or palladium metals, which are both rare and expensive, but if you use just these metals in their pure form, most of their atoms are wasted since only the atoms at the surface partici-pate in the reactions,” Woodfield said.

“But the internal pores of a -alumina support can be impregnated with tiny spheres of platinum or palladium that are as small as two nanometers in size. At that scale, nearly all of the expen-sive metal atoms are on the particle surface where they can contribute, and none are wasted.”

Campbell added, “The metal nanoparticles are suspended in a po-rous network of the alumina support material, which makes them readily ac-cessible to reactant molecules coming from any direction.”

A common route to preparing -alu-mina begins with a boehmite precursor phase, which transforms to the gamma phase at higher temperatures. Prior to this work, researchers understood that the transition from boehmite to gamma involved a relatively abrupt or sudden change. The general consensus is that one material transforms, the atoms re-arrange themselves, and a new materi-

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-Alumina Makes Catalysis More Accessible

Above: The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago.

Chem Open Lab DaySaturday, May 10 Saturday, May 1710:00 a.m.–12:45 p.m.Benson Building, W140

AstrofestSaturday, May 1710:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.Eyring Science Center

Upcoming Events

AnnouncmentsDr. Jani Radebaugh has been

awarded the FWA (Faculty Women’s Association) Scholarship award for 2014. The description for the award from the FWA is as follows:

“Scholarship: Publication record in scholarly (refereed) journals or nation-al journals that have a formal editorial review process and/or publication of scholarly books and monographs. The presentation of scholarship or other types of scholarly and professional work at international, national, or re-gional professional meetings. Estab-lished reputation as a scholar.”

Congratulations, Dr. Radebaugh!

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by BYU News

by BYU News

Student Emmys continued from page 2

accidents from left-hand turns, so UDOT decided to install a new signal system there this summer.

“Whenever you need to do taxpayer-funded improvements, you have budget limitations,” said co-researcher Mitsuru Saito, a BYU professor of civil engineer-ing. “This system will help decision mak-ers spend the funds where they get the highest benefit to reduce the number of

crashes.”Schultz, Saito and statistics professor

Shane Reese have researched the is-sue for the past five years, producing a number of publications along the way. Most recently the group published find-ings in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.

UDOT and the Utah Department of Public Safety have been so pleased with the early results from the Utah Crash Prediction Model that they re-cently awarded the trio of professors the Executive Director’s Excellence in Transportation Safety Award.

“We asked BYU to build a statistical model for Utah knowing it was quite an ambitious challenge,” said Scott Jones, UDOT safety programs engineer. “It took a couple of years of refining, but now it’s at the point where the model is

pinpointing where to do safety projects and we can pull the trigger on those projects.”

Since 2000, fatalities across the state have dropped 41 percent. With the development of the Utah Crash Predic-tion Model to aid UDOT, Schultz, Saito and Reese anticipate this number will continue to improve toward the goal of zero fatalities.

But the researchers, along with the hundreds of folks in UDOT and the De-partment of Public Safety, can’t reduce fatalities by themselves.

“We need the public’s help to make it a priority in how they drive and what they do when they drive,” Schultz said.

“We can model and look for hotspots all over the state, but we need to have drivers do their part to make this successful.”

“The year [of students] that’s com-ing up, they’re probably going to be looking at our film and looking at what worked and what didn’t work, and the program is just going to continue to get better and better,” Tippetts said.

This past year the New York Times documented the BYU Center for Anima-tion’s meteoric rise over the years and the bright future that’s ahead.

The student animators looked for ways to push their animation to the extremes in Owned, creating two very different characters in two very differ-ent worlds. However, the students still needed to tie those worlds together thematically, making them look like they belonged in the same film.

Carson Crawford worked tirelessly on the baby’s room as an animator. She’s specifically proud of the rug,

which took hour upon hour to make it look so soft and fuzzy. Overall, Craw-ford said it was a team effort.

“I love the dynamic that we had from different departments,” Crawford said.

“Computer science with animation with illustration. It was helpful, and I think it led to a lot of success.”

Typically, anywhere from 25-40 students are working on one of these shorts at any given time. Unique to this project, all of the students who worked on it were still around upon its comple-tion. A total of 17 attended the award ceremonies in Los Angeles April 23.

“It’s an honor that they think of us so highly,” Crawford said.

The other co-director of Owned is Daniel Clark.

Chasm is a sci-fi animated short with some stunning visuals and a compelling storyline, but it’s the music that stands above and beyond to earn the student Emmy. BYU music student Richard Wil-liams composed the score. Williams ap-proached the animation department for the opportunity, knowing of the high-profile nature of these films. As soon as Williams saw Chasm he was excited.

“I knew I wanted to create something

really epic,” Williams said.After composing the music, Williams

utilized the BYU philharmonic, who site read and performed all of the music in a two-hour session.

“The sound design and the music to-gether definitely are miles ahead of any other student project I’ve seen,” said Megan Lloyd, director of Chasm.

This is the second student Emmy for Williams, who worked on the score for the animated short Mashed four years ago. He said working on the score this time posed more challenges and stretched him more, but that he’s better for the experience.

Above: Students at work in the BYU Center for Animation.

Above: Grant Schultz and Shane Reese look over their crash prediction model.

al is produced. However, Campbell and his colleagues saw something dif-ferent.

“When starting with a nanoparticu-lar precursor that forms rapidly in a solvent-deficient environment, some-thing very different occurs. We think that what formed very early on was a defective gamma material riddled with boehmite-like defects. As we heated the sample, instead of seeing an abrupt transition (a stark contrast where you jump from one phase to another), these defects just disappeared a few at a time over a wide 500°C temperature range, until the gamma phase was purified,” Campbell said.

Campbell and his colleagues con-cluded that the important gamma phase forms at extraordinarily low temperatures when prepared using the new BYU synthetic process. This was of

particular interest to many people in industry when their recent paper was published.

The tools that Smith used to unrav-el the mystery of the transition from boehmite to -alumina were not avail-able at BYU and required her to travel to Chicago to use one of the world’s brightest sources of high-energy x-rays—the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory. Her proposals competed with those from top researchers around the globe and were awarded beam time due to their scientific importance and the novelty of the proposed experiments.

“X-ray pair-distribution-function (PDF) analysis is a relatively new technique that allows you to probe the local bonding environments of atoms in ma-terials that exhibit disorder. Dr. Smith spent two years immersing herself in

the theory and practice of PDF, pre-paring, and submitting the proposals, and making several trips to the APS to complete the experiments. She brought home results that were very exciting,” Campbell said.

“A lot of the patents out there are based on how a material is produced—and on what you started with,” Camp-bell said. The fact that they achieved the gamma phase at record low tem-peratures is significant. One of the re-viewers of their paper said that it was

“the best gamma-aluminum paper in a decade.”

The next step would be to go in at an atomic level and see in detail how the defects heal themselves, which would require a lot more work. Camp-bell hopes that other researchers will use their new results as a starting point from which to tackle this problem.

by Madison Parks

Catalysis continued from page 3

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© 2014 Research Development, Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology. College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. BYU. All rights reserved 2014.

May 2014Research Development (RD) supports faculty efforts to find and secure research funding. To that end, this “RD Bulletin” provides news about research funding opportunities (including proposal deadlines) targeted to the research interests of the college. The bulletin also lists recent awards received and proposals submitted by college faculty.

For additional information about finding and securing research funding and about the Funding News items below, click on the titles (they are links), go to the RD Website or contact Conrad Monson (conrad_monson@byu.edu; 801-422-7722).

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Speed Networking EventResearch Development will be hosting another Speed networking Event on August 25th, 9:30 - 11:30 am with lunch to follow. The last two events have been very successful (see Faculty Research page for information about those events). Please plan to attend as a presenter or participant. Sign-up information will be distributed sooDoD Funding Opportunities DiscussionThe Department of Defense provides a lot of funding for research, including the basic and applied research done in Academia. The college has a higher success rate with DoD relative to NSF, NIH and many other federal agencies. On June 11, 2014 from noon -1PM in 181D ESC (the CPMS college deans conference room) we will have a discussion about DoD funding opportunities and proposal development strategies. Several faculty with DoD funding will lead the discussion. Pizza will be provided. Please RSVP to conrad_monson@byu.edu. DARPA Biotechnology Office OpportunitiesDARPA is the DoD’s agency for funding basic and applied, cutting edge, risky research. DARPA recently consolidated its biological research into a Biotechnology Office with a mission to “harness the power of biological systems by applying the rigorous tools of engineering and related disciplines, and to design next-generation technologies that are inspired by insights gained from the life sciences” To learn more about opportunities in this office, go to http://www.darpa.mil/Opportunities/Solicitations/DARPA_Solicitations.aspx#BTONSF Grants Conference June 23-24, 2014, DenverThe NSF Grants conferences provide an overview of NSF programs and policies, instruction on writing proposals for NSF and briefings about each directorate. The conference is geared for an audience that includes new faculty and faculty new to NSF. The grants conference is also a time to talk with NSF program officers. Conrad Monson has attended before and found the conference to be very informative and useful. Follow this link for more information: http://www.nsf.gov/ events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=129608&org=NSF

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Funding News (continued)NIH Grants Conference June 26-27, 2014, BaltimoreThe NIH Grants conferences provide an overview of NIH programs and policies, instruction on writing proposals for NIH and briefings about the different divisions of NIH. The conference is geared for an audience that includes new faculty and faculty new to NIH. The grants conference is also a time to talk with NIH program officers and officials. Conrad Monson has attended before and found the conference to be very informative and useful. Follow this link for more information: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/seminars.htm Additional Funding Opportunities Described in a Previous Bulletin

The Department of Energy’s Biotechnology Incubator… goal of program is to engage in research and development that transforms renewable biomass resources into commercially viable, high-performance biofuels, bioproducts and biopower that enable biofuel production. To learn more about this opportunity, go to DE-FOA-0000974: Bioenergy Technologies IncubatorCybersecurity Prize…Cisco and NineSigma are inviting proposals from the global security community for innovative solutions to secure the “Internet of Things”... Deadline for responses is June 17th, 2014. Information about the prize can be found at www.ninesights.com.USAID Innovation lab…The Global Development Lab, a just-announced science and technology initiative from USAID, will be like a DARPA for global development--a breeding ground for technologies that tackle some of the most vexing problems around the globe... information on this announcement can be found at USAID: News

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Congratulations to the following faculty who received research awards in April totaling $1,463,333

Investigators Sponsor TitleChemistry and BiochemistryBuskirk, Allen Yale Univ (NIH) Mechanisms of Ribosomal Reactions: Peptid Bond Formation, Peptide

release and mRNA cleavageDearden, David NSF Collision Cross Section Measurements Using Fourier Transform Ion

Cyclotron Resonance TechniquesEss, Daniel OED (State of UT) Catalytic Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Carbon Monoxide and

MethanolHansen, Jaron USU (OED State of UT) Computer Modeling of Winter Ozone Formation in the Uintah BasinLinford, Matthew Moxtek Inc Moxtek Research SupportSavage, Paul N8 Medical N8 MedicalWillardson, Barry NIH Mechanisms of Assembly of Photoreceptor G Protein ComplexesMathematicsCardon, David NSF Automorphic Forms Workshop 2014Doud, Darrin NSF Automorphic Forms Workshop 2014Jenkins, Paul NSF Automorphic Forms Workshop 2014Physics and AstronomyColton, John OED (State of UT) Materials Study for Future Layered Photovoltaics Using Protein En-

closed Nanocrustals; Stephen Erickson, Student InvestigatorGee, Kent Blue Ridge Research and

Consulting (Air Force)Acoustic Field and Source Measurement Support for the Joint Strike Fighter Program

Neilsen, Traci-anne

Blue Ridge Research and Consulting (Air Force)

Acoustic Field and Source Measurement Support for the Joint Strike Fighter Program

StatisticsDahl, David NIH Nonparametric Bayesian Approaches to Modeling Protein Structure

Proposals SubmittedThe following faculty submitted research proposals in April totaling $4,739,489

Investigators Sponsor TitleChemistry and BiochemistryAndersen, Joshua NIH Investigation of Autophagy Regulatory Mechanisms with a Novel Ap-

proach for Measuring Autophagic FluxCastle, Steven American Chemical

Society Petroleum Re-search Fund

New Microwave-promoted Iminyl Radical Cyclizations

Farnsworth, Paul Utah NASA Space Grant Consortium

Mass Spectrometric Imaging of Spatially Regulated in Vivo Metaboic Rates

Hansen, Jaron OED Through Utah State University

Computer Modeling of Winter Ozone Formation in the Uintah Basin

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Awards Received

Proposals Submitted (continued)Investigators Sponsor TitleHedges, David NIH Neuromelanin Enhancement of Dopamine ReleasePrice, John NIH Investigation of Autophagy Regulatory Mechanisms with a Novel

Approach for Measuring Autophagic FluxPrice, John Utah NASA Space Grant

ConsortiumMass Spectrometric Imaging of Spatially Regulated in Vivo Meta-boic Rates

Prince, John USDA A Rhizobial Peptidase that Interferes with Host Plant Nitrogen Acquisition

Prince, John NIH Chemical Model Driven Lipid MS/MS Fragmentation PredictionWatt, Richard NIH Neuromelanin Enhancement of Dopamine ReleaseWillardson, Barry NIH Mechanisms of Folding and Assembly of mTOR and r53 Com-

plexesComputer ScienceGiraud-Carrier, Christophe

Mount Sinai Medical Cen-ter (NIH)

Modeling Risk for Prescription Drug and Polysubstance Abuse using Social Media

Giraud-Carrier, Christophe

Washington University in St. Louis (NIH)

Using Social Media to Understand and Address Substance Use and Addiction

Geological SciencesChristiansen, Eric Utah NASA Space Grant

ConsortiumMorphometry of Low Shield Volcanoes on Mars and Earth

McBride, John University of Illinois Subcontract: Inexpensive Methods for Evaulating Fractures and Rock Properties for Carbok Sequestration Reservoirs

Radebaugh, Jani Utah NASA EPSCoR Distribution and Erosion of Mountains on Saturn's Moon Titan to Inform the Climatic and Tectonic History

Rupper, Summer Evolving Earth Foundation An Analysis of the Effects of Crevasses on the Thermodynamic Properties of Glaciers

Rupper, Summer NSF: Antarctic Glaciology Bayesian Quantification of Antarctic AccumulationRupper, Summer Evolving Earth Foundation Evolution of Thermal Properties in Alpine GlaciersPhysics and AstronomyGee, Kent Air Force Research Labora-

toryInvestigation of Noise Perception from Acoustic Emissions by Fifth-generation Fighter Aircraft

Gee, Kent Blue Ridge Research and Consulting

Rotorcraft Noise Characterization with UAV-based Acoustical Measurements - Phase I

Gee, Kent Office of Naval Research Wavepacket-Based Source Characterizations of Military Jet Air-craft Noise

Neilsen, Tracianne Air Force Research Labora-tory

Investigation of Noise Perception from Acoustic Emissions by Fifth-generation Fighter Aircraft

Neilsen, Tracianne Blue Ridge Research and Consulting

Rotorcraft Noise Characterization with UAV-based Acoustical Measurements - Phase I

Neilsen, Tracianne Office of Naval Research Wavepacket-Based Source Characterizations of Military Jet Air-craft Noise

StatisticsChristensen, William NSF: Antarctic Glaciology Bayesian Quantification of Antarctic AccumulationReese, Shane NSF: Antarctic Glaciology Bayesian Quantification of Antarctic Accumulation

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