SWAIS2C Season 3 begins

The ICDP SWAIS2C drilling project in Antarctica is underway again: Season 3 has started with an ‘on-ice’ team of 29 scientists, drillers, engineers and Antarctic field specialists embarking on the project’s third attempt to drill for a 200 m sediment core – a series of cylindrical samples of mud and rocks – from the bedrock deep beneath 500 m of ice at the Crary Ice Rise on the Ross Ice Shelf with the aim 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.

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

SWAIS2C  ℹ️ www.swais2c.aq

ℹ️  SWAIS2C media release