A large New Zealand-led team of researchers, engineers and drillers is hopefully just weeks away from starting drilling on an ambitious project to retrieve a deep sediment core from a remote area of Antarctica.
Drilling deep into a remote part of Antarctica looking for clues to how fast the ice will melt
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Core workshop findings indicate past Ross Ice Shelf collapse and West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat
09 July 2026
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…
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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.