Paleo Slide Set: Polar Ice Cores
Snowcats carry cores to transport planes.

While much has already been learned from the GISP2 project, it will be years before the 
results from all 42 analyses from the entire 3000+ m core will be completed. To ensure that 
these pieces of ice could continue to tell their stories, the ice cores were packed into insulated 
boxes and dragged by these snowcats to New York Air National Guard transport planes for the long 
trip to the United States. Once in the United States, the ice will be allotted between its final 
destinations: laboratory analysis by the GISP2 participants, or storage at the National Ice Core 
Laboratory storage facility in Denver, Colorado. 

Photo Credits:
Kendrick Taylor 
DRI, University of Nevada-Reno.