South Dakota Scientists Help Retrieve Ice Core From West Antarctica

Three South Dakota scientists were part of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core project team which made history this year by retrieving additional ice from the main borehole. The South Dakota State University Ice Core and Environment Chemistry Lab, headed by professor Jihong Cole-Dai of the chemistry and biochemistry department, will work on a section of ice from 17,500 years ago that offers clues as to why the Earth began to emerge from the Ice Age.

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