East Greenland Ice-Core Project

Ice core researchers from AWI drilling at the EastGRIP ice core site

The East Greenland Ice-Core Project, known as EGRIP, is a scientific project that plans to retrieve an ice core from the Northeast Greenland ice stream. The first season in the field was 2015; the project is expected to be drilling through to the base of the ice sheet by 2020.[1][2][3]

Much of the camp set up for the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling Project (NEEM) was moved to the EGRIP location in 2015. The equipment was towed by several tractors. The team ran low on fuel and had to abandon some equipment, arriving at the EGRIP location on 26 May, after nine days of towing.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "EGRIP Camp | Isaaffik". isaaffik.org. Retrieved March 14, 2017.
  2. ↑ Kolbert, Elizabeth. "When a Country Melts". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 14, 2017.
  3. ↑ Petersen, Sandra (February 23, 2016). "About EastGRIP". eastgrip.org. Retrieved March 14, 2017.
  4. ↑ Hansen, Lone Holm (2015-04-21). "2015". neem.dk. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
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