In search of future climate clues beneath Antarctic ice

Source: Northern Illinois University

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.



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