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After enduring months on the coldest, driest and windiest continent on Earth, researchers today closed out the inaugural season on an unprecedented, multi-year effort to retrieve the most detailed record of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere over the last 100,000 years.
Working as part of the National Science Foundation's West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS Divide) Ice Core Project, a team of scientists, engineers, technicians and students from multiple U.S. institutions have recovered a 580-meter (1,900-foot) ice core -- the first section of what is hoped to be a 3,465-meter (11,360-foot) column of ice detailing 100,000 years of Earth's climate history, including a precise year-by-year record of the last 40,000 years.
The Fall 2007 In-Depth Newsletter is now available online at https://icecores.org/indepth/
In the Fall 2007 issue:
- Volcanic Events in Greenland Ice Cores
- Jihong Cole-Dai and Alyson Lanciki (South Dakota State University)
- Borehole Optical Stratigraphy
- Ben Smith (University of Washington)
- POLAR-PALOOZA and Ice Core Science
- Geoffrey Haines-Stiles (Passport to Knowledge)
- WAIS Divide Ice Core Update
- Joseph Souney (University of New Hampshire)
- Recently Funded Projects
We are interested in project stories and news from the ice coring community. Please contact us if you are interested in submitting a story or news item to In-Depth.
The Spring 2007 In-Depth Newsletter is now available online at https://icecores.org/indepth/
In the Spring 2007 issue:
- International Polar Year 2007-2008
- West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS Divide) Ice Core Project
- International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences (IPICS)
- Greenland NEEM Deep Ice Core
- U.S. International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (U.S. ITASE)
- Norwegian/U.S. Scientific Traverse in East Antarctica
- Recently Funded Projects
We are interested in project stories and news from the ice coring community. Please contact us if you are interested in submitting a story or news item to In-Depth.