Sentences with phrase «ice drilling teams»

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A team drills thousands of feet into the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to reach a lake buried for millennia.

Thompson's Ohio State University team returned to the Quelccaya ice cap in the southern Andes in 2003 to drill a new set of ice cores.

The team will cut through the ice using a heated drill, with non-toxic silicone oil serving as the lubricating fluid.

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.

A team of ice drillers (a rare profession, but crucial in Antarctica) spent three days boring a hole through the ice last week.

The British are positioned to start drilling at Antarctica's Lake Ellsworth in autumn 2012, and an American team hopes to begin drilling to the Whillans Ice Stream, a network of subglacial waterways, in January 2013.

The research team drilled two ice cores from a glacier on Mt. Hunter's summit plateau, 13,000 feet above sea level.

Graham's team drills a hole through a foot of ice.

The team based its analysis on ratios of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in ice cores drilled in East Antarctica.

A team of American scientists journeyed 1,000 miles across Antarctica to drill into the lake using a custom - designed pressurized hot water jet capable of melting 2,500 feet of ice in a few days.

But also this season, a US team led by climatologist Jeffrey Severinghaus of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, will test the $ 10.5 - million Rapid Access Ice Drill (also abbreviated RAID) at Minna Bluff, near the US McMurdo Station on Ross Island.

Using conventional drilling methods, it will take three summer seasons in the remote reaches of Antarctica to get to the million - year - old ice that the teams hope lies 3000 metres down.

The UK team hopes to reach Ellsworth in a single three - day session, using a drill that will melt the ice with a high - pressure jet of water, heated to 90 °C.

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.

As part of the ICE MEMORY project, a team of French, Italian, Russian and American researchers carried out the first ice archive drilling operation on the Col du Dôme glacier in the Mont Blanc massif, in August 2016.

Rack and his team drilled a hole through the 890 - foot - thick (270 meters) ice shelf and lowered down a robotic vehicle known as the SCINI ROV (Submersible Capable of under - Ice Navigation and Imaging - Remotely Operated Vehicle) on a tethice shelf and lowered down a robotic vehicle known as the SCINI ROV (Submersible Capable of under - Ice Navigation and Imaging - Remotely Operated Vehicle) on a tethIce Navigation and Imaging - Remotely Operated Vehicle) on a tether.

Surprise find The team's actual mission was to survey ocean currents near the Ross Ice Shelf, a slab of ice extending more than 600 miles (970 kilometers) northward from the grounding zone of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Ross Sea, to model the behavior of a drill string, a length of pipe extending to the seafloor which delivers drilling fluids and retrieves sediment samplIce Shelf, a slab of ice extending more than 600 miles (970 kilometers) northward from the grounding zone of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Ross Sea, to model the behavior of a drill string, a length of pipe extending to the seafloor which delivers drilling fluids and retrieves sediment samplice extending more than 600 miles (970 kilometers) northward from the grounding zone of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Ross Sea, to model the behavior of a drill string, a length of pipe extending to the seafloor which delivers drilling fluids and retrieves sediment samplIce Sheet into the Ross Sea, to model the behavior of a drill string, a length of pipe extending to the seafloor which delivers drilling fluids and retrieves sediment samples.

But the results were worth the trouble: the team found ice that was significantly thicker than that previously recorded by drilling.

Ice deformation The earlier measurements were limited by their reliance on ships smashing their way into the region and deploying teams to drill a hole down which a tape measure can be inserted.

Here, at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide, Kendrick Taylor and his team of glaciologists drill into ancient ice to pull up ice cores, which trap bubbles of the atmosphere from the time that ice fell as snIce Sheet Divide, Kendrick Taylor and his team of glaciologists drill into ancient ice to pull up ice cores, which trap bubbles of the atmosphere from the time that ice fell as snice to pull up ice cores, which trap bubbles of the atmosphere from the time that ice fell as snice cores, which trap bubbles of the atmosphere from the time that ice fell as snice fell as snow.

The team will switch drill bits from the large one that takes ice cores as it goes to a smaller one only a few centimetres in diameter, which will melt its way down using a sterile silicone fluid.

The centennial coincides with an expected new landmark: This week, a Russian team drilling into Lake Vostok in the center of the Antarctic continent is likely to break through the ice to water.

While a team of Russian scientists were drilling ice core samples from their Vostok base in Antarctica, new satellite imagery revealed the outline of a lake the size of New Jersey buried two miles underneath the ice.

He and his research team drilled through thousands of feet of ice to study microorganisms living in the sub-glacial Lake Vostok.

After a brief period of panic (the team's ice drills were lost thanks to a shipping mix - up and had to be fetched from a warehouse that was a 5 - hour flight away), the ice harvesting began.

Heat trapping greenhouse - gas emissions are the obvious culprit, since they've increased dramatically over that same 50 years, but scientists prefer hard evidence to presumption, so a team from the British Antarctic Survey has been drilling into ancient ice to see how the current warming stacks up against what happened in the ancient past.

His team combined different sets of measurements which used stakes and holes drilled into the ice to record the change in mass of more than 300 glaciers since the 1940s.

The team, which Marc led and provided the logistical support for, deployed from Resolute to Nord Greenland before setting up a rustic field camp on the sea ice for six days, during which time we mechanically drilled the ice to measure thickness, measuring snow depth in a grid pattern along the flight lines as well as dragging instruments along the surface that produced the same measurements for comparison to the airborne data.

A team of scientists will drill into the core of the ice in Eastern Antarctica.

WASHINGTON, May 9 (by Karin Zeitvogel for RIA Novosti)-- A team of scientists from the United States, Russia and Germany who drilled into the bottom of a Siberian lake, found that the Arctic was not covered in a sheet of ice 3.6 million years ago as it is today, but was warm and forested, a study published Thursday says.

A team of scientists from the United States, Russia and Germany who drilled into the bottom of a Siberian lake, found that the Arctic was not covered in a sheet of ice 3.6 million years ago as it is today, but was warm and forested, a study published Thursday says.

In the spring of 2009, the team of researchers drilled through the ice on the surface and into the bottom of Lake El» gygytgyn, which lies around 62 miles (100 kilometers) north of the Arctic Circle.

In a first - of - its - kind feat of science and engineering, a National Science Foundation (NSF)- funded research team has successfully drilled through 800 meters (2,600 feet) of Antarctic ice to reach a subglacial lake and retrieve water and sediment samples that have been isolated from direct contact with the atmosphere for many thousands of years.

Three years ago, it appeared that this monster had been put to bed by Denmark's Dorthe Dahl - Jensen, when her team drilled all the way down through the ice to Greenland's bedrock, providing the first reliable data from...

But it wasn't until 2013 that an ambitious, international team of researchers successfully drilled a borehole through nearly half a mile of ice to the surface of one of these lakes for the first time.

Sediment cores the team collected by drilling in front of the current Cosgrove Ice Shelf indicate that relatively warm ocean waters dissolved the vast ice shelf and even some of the glacier behind it about 2000 years ago, they recently reportIce Shelf indicate that relatively warm ocean waters dissolved the vast ice shelf and even some of the glacier behind it about 2000 years ago, they recently reportice shelf and even some of the glacier behind it about 2000 years ago, they recently reported.

«The next steps will be to assemble a team to drill through the ice into the mountains to obtain the first rock samples from the Gamburtsevs.

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.

The team obtained ice cores drilled by Ohio State University paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson.

The ice is 200 meters or 600 feet thick and it is not trivial to drill through that much ice, but it can be done, and the British Antarctic Survey is aboard with a team of experts to do so to get sediment cores from the bottom below the ice:

A very good example of Antarctic monitoring of global warming is an ice core two kilometres long and equivalent to 150,000 - year record of warmth, cold and warmth, that a French - Soviet drilling team at Vostok Station in central Antarctica produced in 1985.

The team had been examining cores drilled from the Antarctic ice to «read» the pattern of temperatures of the past.