UW News
Michelle Koutnik
September 14, 2021
UW part of $25M NSF-funded effort to retrieve Earth’s oldest ice core
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University of Washington glaciologists will join colleagues from around the country in a new effort to retrieve an ice core more than 1 million years old from East Antarctica, to better understand the history of our planet’s climate and predict future changes.