A collaborative ice-drilling project between Russia, the United States and France at the Vostok station yielded the deepest ice core ever recovered, reaching a depth of 3,623 metersThis Danish territory in the Arctic provides approximately one third of all ice cores for study in the world.Beyond greenhouse gases, scientists say they may also be able to use ice cores to study the DNA of ancient bacteria and viruses that could reemerge as the world warms.
That team of scientists included U.S.-based ice core paleoclimatologists Lonnie Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson, who are husband and wife. Lonnie Thompson said the speed at which ice is disappearing has driven plans to expand his ice core storage facilities at Ohio State University, which he began fundraising for last year. He hopes to raise $7 million. So far he has raised about $475,000 through donations and pledges, according to the school’s Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center. The renovation will double the facility’s storage capacity to more than 13,550 meters of ice cores.
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