Resource Type
Web Link
Region
Antarctic
Completion Time
Less than 1 period
Grade
All Aged
Topic
General Engineering
General Earth Science
Tools and Methods
Tools and Methods
Earth Science
Physical Science
Engineering
Polar Careers
General Polar Careers
Snow and Ice Science
The U.S research community is conducting a deep ice coring project in West Antarctica for studies of climate, ice sheet history and cryobiology. This project is collecting a deep ice core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) ice flow divide and integrating approximately 20 separate but synergistic projects to analyze the ice and interpret the records.
Watch a 20 minute video narrated by project researcher, Dr. Ken Taylor. It discuses why the team is working in Antarctica, how and where the team collects the ice core samples, and what the ice cores tell us about earth's climate.