Category: Antarctic Field Trip to Taylor Glacier
Posted on May 2, 2018
How to measure noble gases in ice cores
With the publication of our paper about how we measure noble gases in ice core samples, this very exciting project comes to an (preliminary) end. What a nice reward that we could provide the cover image for the… Read More
Updated on March 20, 2017
The Daily Work of a Polar Ice Core Driller – Video
Time flies, footage stays. A bit more than a year ago, I lived the life of an ice core driller in Antarctica. Here is the long-awaited ice core drilling video with some explanatory elements for everybody to share… Read More
Posted on July 4, 2016
The Ice Arrived!
Several months after drilling the ice cores on Taylor Glacier, they finally arrived at our lab. A moment to celebrate that nothing went wrong on the way, and before. I have to admit, it was a pretty special… Read More
Posted on January 5, 2016
Drilling Ice Cores – Time Lapse Video
On the Taylor Glacier we spent a lot of time drilling ice cores with the big Blue Ice Drill (BID). Here a little time lapse video of us drilling the top three meters of one of our many… Read More
Posted on December 11, 2015
Goodbye Taylor Glacier – Goodbye Antarctica
After three weeks of field work on Taylor Glacier, four of us left the field (incl. me) while eight are continuing until beginning of January. Here some impressions from an amazing time at an amazing place. To be… Read More
Updated on November 16, 2015
Why we are interested in radiocarbon
The most spectacular work that is done on the field is probably melting every day 1 ton of ice in a huge vacuum chamber. Back in the lab, the released air from the ice will be analyzed for its… Read More
Updated on November 16, 2015
The last warm period: an analog for our future?
In ice core research we would love to probe a time period that was warmer than today for better predictions of our future. However, these time periods have been rare in what we can cover with ice cores,… Read More
Updated on November 16, 2015
Heading out to Taylor Glacier in the Dry Valleys
After a week of training and preparation in McMurdo station we are flying to our field site: Taylor Glacier in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. The protection of Antarctica through the international treaties make visiting this continent a bit… Read More
Posted on November 16, 2015
Living in McMurdo
The biggest “town” in Antarctica is McMurdo Station where we stayed the past week to prepare our field work. Some people love it, others hate it, but there is no doubt that it is a very special place…. Read More
Posted on November 11, 2015
Touch down in Antarctica
The first contact with Antarctica has something magic. It feels a bit like you land on another planet. Here are some impressions from the first contact with Antarctica. All the best from unreal McMurdo. Bernhard Share This:
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