NIU professor, student part of drilling project exploring continent’s warmer past. As a kindergartner, Justin Dodd went to “career day” as a geologist. As a teenager, Finlay McElmeel fell in love with astronomy. Those passions will converge late this year in an unlikely location: the windiest, driest and coldest continent on the planet.
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.