It's nearly Christmas, even in Antarctica! Jenn Danis is "camp mum" to researchers and engineers currently working at Kamb Ice Stream, more than a thousand kilometres from Scott Base.
They're there to drill for sediment cores beneath the Ross Ice Shelf to help determine how sensitive it has been to past warming.
Davis spoke to Charlotte Cook.
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.