SWAIS 2C KIS-3 camp wish everyone a happy and joyful holiday season!

SWAIS 2C KIS-3 camp wish everyone a happy and joyful holiday season!  At the ICDP drill site, the team prepares for some Christmas festivities, while they continue with initial characterization of the gravity cores, which included X-ray imaging, smear slide observations to look at microscopic composition, and analysis of the microfossil assemblages for an initial assessment of age.

The SWAIS2C (Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2 Degrees Celsius) project focuses on understanding past and current drivers that influence the retreat of ice sheets, to reduce uncertainty in numerical model projections of future changes. For this, the project prepares to recover sediment cores by drilling through the shelf ice at two drill sites along the Siple Coast of West Antarctica (Ross Ice Shelf) gaining insights into the melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet during the past, e.g. the last interglacial. More information about SWAIS2C and the daily messages on the ICDP website and the external project website SWAIS2C.