We’ve just opened the best present ever – our first sediment core, retrieved from under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet last season.
Interpreting the record of environmental change hidden inside needs the combined scientific brunt of many different disciplines – sedimentology, geochemistry, micropaleontology, paleomagnetism, geophysics to name just a few!
So, we’ve brought together 30 members of our international multi-disciplinary science team to our core description workshop to get cracking on describing and analysing our core.
Over the next two weeks at the Otago Repository for Core Analysis in Dunedin, New Zealand, our awesome team of world experts and early career researchers will work their way down through our 228m sediment core.
This analysis will build a picture of the history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet over millions of years – initial data that will help our wider science team select core samples for their research to answer our key question of how the ice sheet will respond in our warming climate.
