Directory
Early December
Mid February
Brown Pen, Heald Island, Garwood, Hidden, Marshall, Miers Valleys, The Bulwark, Walcott Glacier
Dr Brenda Hall
The University of Maine
Aspects of the project that are new this season include the development of a custom ice core drill by Ice Design and Drilling Operations (IDDO) to take a 10-inch-diameter shallow core down to 12 meters depth. This will greatly expedite the recovery of the large-volume ice samples, which, during the teams' similar research project in Greenland, were collected using electric chainsaws and excavation of three-meter-deep trenches. Researchers have worked with Ice Core and Drilling Services (ICDS) to plan this drilling operation, and ICDS will be sending an engineer to the field to assist the research team with operating the drill.