Video Gallery
Climate Change - How do we know?
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Dr. Kendrick Taylor of the Desert Research Institute is the Chief Scientist for the WAIS Divide Ice Core project. In this video, Kendrick takes you on a tour around the camp, discusses the process by which ice cores are drilled and extracted from the ice sheet, and explains the importance of ice cores in the overall understanding of Earth's climate history and current climate change.
This is a low-resolution version of the video for the web. A higher-resolution version is also available. For more information contact
Kendrick Taylor (© 2009, Kendrick Taylor).
Drilling and Core Handling at WAIS Divide - A Time-Lapse View
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Todd Rampendhal put together this video during the 2008/2009 field season. The video gives you a great time-lapse view of the drilling and core handling process. Many thanks to Todd for providing us with this video.
This site is administered by the WAIS Divide Ice Core Project Science Coordination Office (Desert Research Institute and University of New Hampshire). This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under award OPP-0440817 to the Desert Research Institute, Nevada System of Higher Education. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.