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Project updates
Core workshop gets underway
03 June 2026
We’ve just opened the best present ever – our first sediment core, retrieved from under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet last season.
Project updates
Test of modified drilling system a success
14 August 2025
Our updated Antarctic Intermediate Depth Drill system has been put to the test in rural New Zealand and passed with flying colours.
Ross Shelf ReportsProject updates
Second KIS3 season ends
27 December 2024
Our mission to deliver globally important science has been a roller coaster of highs and lows over the past few days.
Project updates
SWAIS2C core workshop offers first glimpse of sediment from below Ross Ice Shelf
20 May 2024
Sediment cores retrieved from Antarctica’s Siple Coast last summer were carefully opened and examined at a recent workshop at the Otago Repository for Core Analysis (ORCA), an important step in…