Triple Isotopes of Oxygen as a Proxy for Carbon Dioxide in Altered Early Pleistocene Ice Core Samples

6 Ma old ice have been found in the Allan Hills Blue Ice Areas, Antarctica, but CO2 concentrations in samples older than 3 Ma are altered Viability of triple isotopic composition of O2 in altered...

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Triple isotopes of oxygen as a proxy for carbon dioxide in altered Early Pleistocene ice core samples | ESS Open Archive

Traditional ice cores provide invaluable insights into changes in past atmospheric greenhouse gas levels, like carbon dioxide (CO2), and their relationship to climate over the last 800,000 years. Rece...

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Fidelity and stratigraphy of the Antarctic Allan Hills old ice archive from Continuous Flow Analysis

Abstract. The Allan Hills blue ice area, East Antarctica, offers a unique opportunity to extend the ice core record beyond 800 thousand years (kyr), with ice as old as 6 million years recently recover...

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Cool discovery: OSU ice core study reveals more about climate change

On this edition, we talk with OSU researcher Julia Marks-Peterson, about her study which reveals new information about climate change by evaluating carbon locked in Antarctic ice for more than three m...

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Broadly stable atmospheric CO2 and CH4 levels over the past 3 million years - Nature

Blue ice records from Antarctica are used to determine methane and carbon dioxide concentrations over the past 3 million years.

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Broadly stable atmospheric CO2 and CH4 levels over the past 3 million years - Nature

Blue ice records from Antarctica are used to determine methane and carbon dioxide concentrations over the past 3 million years.

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Broadly stable atmospheric CO2 and CH4 levels over the past 3 million years - Nature

Blue ice records from Antarctica are used to determine methane and carbon dioxide concentrations over the past 3 million years.

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Antarctic Sea Ice - Eos

Dear Eos: The ocean around Antarctica is critical to ocean circulation, climate, and ecosystems. There, vast quantities of heat and anthropogenic carbon are drawn down from the atmosphere and stored a...

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A climate-change disaster scenario could be closer than we think

This week, a group of 44 researchers from 15 countries presented an open letter to the Nordic Council of Ministers, to shed light on the potential collapse of a key ocean current system. The Atlantic ...

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New Lessons from Old Ice: How We Understand Past (and Future) Heating - Eos

Fragments of blue ice up to 6 million years old—the oldest ever found—offer key insights into Earth’s warming cycles. Researchers are using these ancient data to refine models of our future climate.

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Miocene and Pliocene ice and air from the Allan Hills blue ice area, East Antarctica | PNAS

Antarctic ice cores provide a unique archive of Earth’s atmosphere and its largest extant ice sheet. The oldest continuous ice core extends back 80...

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The critical research that unlocks our climate's past and future may be on thin ice

“There’s questions that we don’t know we should be asking yet.”

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Unlocking our Climate Past-Extracting Gas from Ice Cores

YouTube video by NSF Ice Drilling Program

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Director for Education for the COLDEX NSF Science and Technology Center

The College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences is seeking a Director for Education for the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration NSF Science and Technology Center. This is a full-time (1.00 FTE), 12-month, professional faculty position. This position provides overall management of COLDEX educational programs including facilitating the logistics of programs delivered by partner institutions, working with COLDEX faculty to recruit students and post docs, leading the COLDEX research experience for undergraduates (REU) program, recruiting and supporting students and participants from diverse backgrounds, communicating with COLDEX participants about educational activities, working with the COLDEX evaluation team to track progress toward COLDEX educational goals, providing and facilitating mentorship for the COLDEX student and post doc community, and contributing to annual and other progress reports and to COLDEX meetings.

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Polar Careers Outside Academia | Polar Science Early Career Community Office

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Inside the Race to Find Earth's Oldest Ice

A global race is on to drill for the oldest known layers of Antarctic ice so researchers can peer back in time to a warmer climate to better understand the planet’s hotter future

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Huntington man braves Antarctica to research how ancient ice reveals Earth's climate history

Jacob Chalif is part of a three-month mission with COLDEX — the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration — searching to record the Earth's climate history through ancient ice.

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