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Co-chief scientist, Dr. Walker Smith poses with the largest ice core they had extracted from the sea ice. They had to send the 1 meter hollow core drill down the same hole three times before they reached the bottom of the ice on this floe. When they put the pieces together the core showed that the sea ice was over eight feet thick. There was also over two feet of snow on top of this ice floe. On the sea ice, near the icebreaker Oden.

Credit to read: Photo by Jeff Peneston (PolarTREC 2008/2009), Courtesy of ARCUS

Photographer: Jeff Peneston
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Year: 
2008
Program: 
PolarTREC
Region: 
Southern Ocean
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PENTAX Corporation
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PENTAX Optio W20
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