Sentences with phrase «ice drilling site»

(For other case studies of funding see the essay on Roger Revelle's discovery and the experimental Greenland Ice Drilling site.)

(1)(For other case studies of funding see the essay on Funding Keeling's Measurements and the experimental Greenland Ice Drilling site.

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Quelccaya is so remote that on one of his first treks to drill for ice core samples, Thompson and his team could not get their drill and generator to the work site.

Their scientists flew more than 250,000 kilometres across much of West Antarctica — including the areas draining to the Ross and Ronne ice shelves — and part of East Antarctica, including the famous ice - core - drilling sites Vostok and Dome C.

The International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences (IPICS) aims to identify a suitable site to drill a core representing Antarctica's oldest ice in the next two yeaIce Core Sciences (IPICS) aims to identify a suitable site to drill a core representing Antarctica's oldest ice in the next two yeaice in the next two years.

Geoscientist John Higgins (right) of Princeton University and his team drilled at three sites, hauling tents and equipment, such as a drill bit filled with an ice core.

To measure the forecasted inflow of warm water under the Filchner - Ronne Ice Shelf, in the past two Antarctic summers scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the British Antarctic Survey drilled through the ice at seven sites to deploy oceanographic recording devices below Ice Shelf, in the past two Antarctic summers scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute and the British Antarctic Survey drilled through the ice at seven sites to deploy oceanographic recording devices below ice at seven sites to deploy oceanographic recording devices below it.

Camp Century was known to Colgan and other glaciologists as the site where the first deep ice core was drilled.

At the first drill site, the researchers drilled until hitting bedrock about 100 feet (30 m) under the surface of the ice.

At the site, they used a special hot water drilling system to dig into the ice.

Researchers from the project Svalbard ice cores and climate variability (SVICECLIM) have combined these valuable time series with data from ice cores drilled at three different sites in Svalbard.

A flow cytometric method to measure prokaryotic records in ice cores: an example from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide drilling site Journal of Glaciology, in press, p. 1 - ice cores: an example from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide drilling site Journal of Glaciology, in press, p. 1 - Ice Sheet Divide drilling site Journal of Glaciology, in press, p. 1 - 19.

Ensconced in their bubble, the characters are indifferent to the news on their touch screens: a Category 5 hurricane hits Rhode Island; oil platforms are drilling on the site of the former Arctic ice cap.

I've just returned from the deep field site at Aurora Basin where the Australians are drilling a new 400 - meter ice core which we will analyze in my lab in Reno.

The occurrence of artefacts in earlier ice core records mainly from Greenland drill sites [enrichment of CO2 due to chemical reactions in the ice; depletion of CO2 due to fractionation during clathrate formation (5)-RSB- can be avoided by careful sample selection.

Once they reach a good sampling site, they set up camp nearby and get to work, drilling through the ice and the water below until their equipment reaches sediments.

When Kaser's team looked at ice cores previously drilled at two sites high in the western Alps — the Colle Gnifetti glacier saddle 4,455 m up on Monte Rosa near the Swiss — Italian border, and the Fiescherhorn glacier at 3,900 m in the Bernese Alps — they found that in around 1860 layers of glacial ice started to contain large amounts of soot.

This season, drilling «round the clock, the team hopes to reach the bottom of the brittle ice layer, but none of the brittle ice will be shipped this year; instead it will be stored in a deep trench on - site, giving it time to «relax» and become less fragile.

This virtual tour takes you to the sites where polar researchers have holed up year after year, drilling thousands of metres of Greenland or Antarctic ice before hitting bedrock.

+ There is a supplementary site on the History of Greenland Ice Drilling, with some documentation of the US «GISP» projects of the 1980s.

Some of the information gathered in the three projects was used for a Web site on The Discovery of Global Warming, where one may see the historical context for the Greenland ice drilling work.

A piece of melting, dirty ice that dropped some muck right at the drill site?

Shell's flotilla will continue to wait in Dutch Harbor — 1,000 miles south of the proposed drilling sites; the closest major port to the North Slope — while unexpectedly heavy sea ice prevents them from making the voyage to the Beaufort and Chukchi seas.

If the industry's wrong, and a blowout occurs late in the drilling season, there won't be time to stop it before the winter ice chokes the site, leaving oil to gush uncontrolled for months.

To work out how much meltwater might be stored within the pores of the firn, the scientists set up camp in 2012, 2013 and 2015 on the ice cap to use radar and to drill a series of holes 20 metres deep into the porous firn layer − also choosing sites where samples had been taken 20 years ago.

Represented gas industry worker who fell on ice in the winter in the evening at a well site on State Park land in Clinton County, PA. suffering a compound ankle fracture requiring internal fixation with screws in a claim Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and Precision Drilling Corporation...

Supervised crews for new construction and maintained all pipelines, roads, and pads, bladed road, built roads, drill sites and ice roads, conducted snow removal operations