SWAIS2C Season 3 - deeper than 200 m

Season 3 of the ICDP SWAIS2C drilling project in Antarctica: The team has successfully drilled 200 metres of sediment core from beneath the ice sheet at Crary Ice Rise, reaching the target depth!  However, with a bit of time in the field left, the team is not stopping drilling quite yet, 

During this season the ICDP SWAIS2C drilling project has an ‘on-ice’ team of 29 scientists, drillers, engineers and Antarctic field specialists embarking on the project’s attempt to drill for a 200 m sediment core from the bedrock deep beneath 500 m of ice at the Crary Ice Rise on the Ross Ice Shelf. The aim is to understand the response to climate warming in the past, and the meaning for Earth’s future 🌏 Response of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) to projected warming remains a significant uncertainty in sea level rise projections. SWAIS2C focus on understanding past and current drivers, mechanisms and feedbacks that influence retreat of ice sheets, to reduce uncertainty in numerical model projections of future changes.

Daily news  ℹ️ https://www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-continent/polar-regions/antarctica/swais-2c-antarctica/swais2c-daily-news

ICDP project ℹ️ https://www.icdp-online.org/projects/by-continent/polar-regions/antarctica/swais-2c-antarctica/

SWAIS2C  ℹ️ https://www.swais2c.aq/