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Date Taken:

January 20, 2009

Photograph By:

Chad Naughton

License Type:

Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

The green object in the center is an ice core enveloped in green protective netting at the WAIS (West Antarctic Ice Sheet) Divide field camp. Kendrick Taylor, Desert Research Institute, is the principal investigator on a project to drill an ice core more than three kilometers deep into the ice sheet. The ice serves as a sort of time capsule for past climate, allowing scientists to understand how abrupt changes in the climate unfolded tens of thousands of years ago. Visit the WAIS Divide project website for more information.

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Antarctica, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0., Climate Change, Creative Commons, Glaciology, Ice, Ice Core, NSF, Research, U.S. Antarctic Program, USAP, WAIS Divide

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