Tours of the ICF are curtailed until August 2024 due to a higher-than-usual volume of ice core processing and construction activities adjacent to our facility.
In 2011 a team of researchers led by Vasilii Petrenko, an assistant professor of Earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester, spent seven weeks in Antarctica collecting and studying 2,000-pound samples of glacial ice cores that date back nearly 12,000 years.
