Fall 2013

On January 30, 2013 the National Science Foundation and the United States Geological Survey entered into a new Interagency Agreement for "Operations and Maintenance of the National Ice Core Laboratory".

In May of 2013, a collaborative team led by Erich Osterberg, Cameron Wake, and Karl Kreutz returned to Denali National Park to collect two ice cores to bedrock from the Central Alaska Range, completing a campaign 6 years in the making.

In May 2013 a group of 4 researchers from the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada and Oregon State University, travelled to the far north east of the Greenland ice sheet and spent 3 weeks at the remote site in order to drill two adjacent ice cores.

The South Pole Ice Core project is a U.S. effort funded by the National Science Foundation to drill and recover a new ice core from South Pole, Antarctica. The ice core will be drilled to a depth of 1500 meters and provide records of stable isotopes, aerosols, and atmospheric gases spanning ~40,000 years.

Efforts continue to mitigate effects of October's partial government shutdown.