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512 viewsAIDJEX 1972 pilot study: snowmobile tracks lead to a hole in the ice.
Image Credit: NSIDC courtesy Tom Marlar/CRREL
AIDJEX Web site
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179 viewsAIDJEX 1972 Pilot Study: Unmanned current-meter holes had to be reopened periodically.
Image Credit: National Snow & Ice Data Center
AIDJEX Web site
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470 viewsThe snow pit looks deep when you're standing at the bottom.
Image courtesy Mark Serreze, NSIDC.
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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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The Master at work138 viewsMatthew Sturm photographs snow layers in a snow pit during the 2009 SnowNet project.
Image courtesy Andrew Slater, NSIDC.
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131 viewsThe whole team (except the dogs) poses for a group photo.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney
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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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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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88 viewsThe GPR/GPS system broke in the field (notice the hole in the gray), so it rests inside the PolarHaven.
Image Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC
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