Source: NZ Herald
It reads like a Hollywood plot – a team crossing crevasse-riddled sea ice to drill 500m for geological evidence that could reveal when the West Antarctic Ice Sheet might collapse, driving sea-level rise and impacting millions worldwide.
Analysis from our core description workshop supports the initial observations made in the field – our Antarctic sediment core holds a record of an open marine environment, far closer to…
We’ve just opened the best present ever – our first sediment core, retrieved from under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet last season.