North Greenland Ice Core Retrieved under Neem Project
26.08.2009 - Ice & Snow, Other, Arctic
An international research team from the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling project (NEEM) has retrieved an ice core of 1757.87 m in north-western Greenland. This project is one of the International Polar Year's 2007-2008 major projects.
Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association, with coordination andl ogistical help from the Centre for Ice and Climate in Denmark, have been working on this drilling project since April 2009. The collected ice core is expected to contain data on climate history going back about 38,000 years.
Aside from obtaining insight into gases, trace elements and biological substances contained in the ice, the ice core's major contribution lies in its comparison to ice cores drilled in the Antarctic Dronning Maud Land. By comparing and contrasting the two, scientists will be able to draw conclusions about the climate's interaction on the northern and southern hemispheres 38,000 years ago.
