NEEM 2009 has started .
North Greenland Eemian Ice drilling (NEEM) 2007-2011.
Official Danish NEEM Website
Pictures from ice sampling at BAS
Isotope analysis of atmospheric water vapour.
C-14 analyses is used to obtain the age of the air bubbles in ice cores.
Sawing a long piece of ice core
Installing temperature sensors
Relaxing after the drilling was finished (April 2005)
Photographs by Elisabeth Isaksson
On board of a US Air Force Globemaster, taking atmospheric water vapour samples between New Zealand and Antarctica (August 2005)
Carefully sawing a piece of the EPICA Dronning Maud Land Ice Core in the freezer labs at AWI (July 2003)