Tours of the ICF are curtailed until December 2024 due to a higher-than-usual volume of ice core processing and construction activities adjacent to our facility.
By Karl Kreutz and Seth Campbell, University of Maine
Home to Mt. Logan, the tallest peak in Canada (5959 meters), the St. Elias Mountains straddle the U.S. (Alaska)/Canada (Yukon Territories) border on the west coast of North America.
The goal of housing Canada's ice core collection at the University of Alberta and turning it into an accessible scientific resource is a big step closer to reality, thanks to a $2.3-million grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation
On 28 September 2011, NSF awarded CH2M HILL the Arctic Research Support and Logistics Contract to provide research support and logistics services for NSF-sponsored research in the Arctic.
In July of 2010, a team led by Peter Neff and Eric Steig from the University of Washington and Doug Clark from Western Washington University spent 26 days retrieving ice cores at Combatant Col, near Mt. Waddington, British Columbia, Canada.
From: The scope of science for the International Polar Year 2007-2008, Executive Summary, February 2007
The International Polar Year 2007–2008 will be the largest internationally coordinated research program in 50 years. It will be an intensive period of interdisciplinary science focused on the Arctic and the Antarctic.