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Experts to drill Antarctica's oldest ice to look at climate change


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"A 14-person team on a €13 million European project will head to the East Antarctica ice sheet later this year, to begin drilling an ice core several kilometres deep. Researchers will use the bubbles of carbon dioxide and other gases trapped inside ice cores to provide a window into the Earth’s past climate.

Details of the “Beyond EPICA” project – which hopes to find ice dating back 1.5 million years – were announced this week at the European Geosciences Union Conference in Vienna, Austria."

Full report at the New Scientist: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2199113-antarctica-team-to-search-worlds-oldest-ice-for-climate-change-clues/

At Beyond EPICA: https://www.beyondepica.eu/

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Quest begins to drill Antarctica's oldest ice

Efforts are about to get under way to drill a core of ice in Antarctica that contains a record of Earth's climate stretching back 1.5 million years.

A European team will set up its equipment at one of the highest locations on the White Continent, for an operation likely to take four years.

"Beyond EPICA", as the project is known, is a follow-up to a similar venture at the turn of the millennium called simply EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica).

The new endeavour will base itself a short distance away from the original at Little Dome C, an area located roughly 40km from the Italian-French Concordia Station, on the east Antarctic plateau.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-59475410

https://www.science.org/content/article/hunt-begins-ancient-antarctic-ice-and-clues-earth-s-response-rising-temperatures

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Drilling campaign reaches a depth of 808 meters in the Antarctic ice sheet

In Antarctica, the second drilling campaign of the Beyond EPICA—Oldest Ice project, at the remote field site Little Dome C, has been successfully completed. This project is an unprecedented challenge for paleoclimatology studies and its goal is to go back 1.5 million years in time to reconstruct past temperatures and greenhouse gas concentrations through the analysis of an ice core extracted from the depths of the ice sheet.

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-drilling-campaign-depth-meters-antarctic.html

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