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98 viewsMark Serreze drills holes in the ice.
Image courtesy Mark Serreze, NSIDC.
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481 viewsAnother research team drills a hole in the ice at the South Pole.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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165 viewsThis hole was drilled by another research team for physics research at the South Pole.
Image Credit: Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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80 viewsA leaning weather station that has slowly started to melt out of the ice in recent years. We have snow-mobiled here (a one-hour trip) to steam-drill a new 6-meter (20-foot) hole and secure the station into it. Photo by John Maurer, CIRES/NSIDC, University of Colorado.
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81 viewsKoni using the steam drill to make a new hole for the leaning weather station. Sitting above the pit in purple is Elizabeth (Betsy) Kolbert from The New Yorker magazine, who came out for a week to experience research in Greenland and to interview Koni for a three-piece article called, "The Climate of Man". Photo by John Maurer, CIRES/NSIDC, University of Colorado.
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81 viewsAnother view of us working on this weather station. Nic is making measurements of the snow at the left, Koni is steam-drilling, and Betsy Kolbert is observing.
Photo by John Maurer, CIRES/NSIDC, University of Colorado.
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81 viewsAnother view of Nic making measurements in the snow (temperature and density profiles) and Koni steam-drilling. The wooden box contains batteries that run the instruments on the weather station.
Photo by John Maurer, CIRES/NSIDC, University of Colorado.
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80 viewsWe begin the difficult task of shoveling all the snow and drilling out all the ice from in front of and around Swiss Camp.
Photo by John Maurer, CIRES/NSIDC, University of Colorado.
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79 viewsClose-up of the sled with the propane for the steam drill as we work on clearing snow and ice from around Swiss Camp (Nic is in the background). Photo by John Maurer, CIRES/NSIDC, University of Colorado.
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187 viewsThe "chain gang" hard at work, drilling into the sea ice and taking samples for their research.
Photo Credit: NSIDC Courtesy Anthony Petty
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2195 viewsAn above view of one of the holes drilled to take ice core samples during the research on the sea ice.
Photo Credit: NSIDC Courtesy Erica Key
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125 viewsTerry Haran (center, middleground) drilling core samples with the team.
Photo Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos, NSIDC
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