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WAIS Divide: 2010/2011

WAIS Divide: 2010/2011. Collected core to 3,331 m Stopped >50 m above bed to avoid connection to possible basal water Several technical problems and weather delays had to be over come All core is at NICL. WAIS Divide: CONUS. Ice to 2,500 m distributed to PIs

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WAIS Divide: 2010/2011

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  1. WAIS Divide: 2010/2011 Collected core to 3,331 m Stopped >50 m above bed to avoid connection to possible basal water Several technical problems and weather delays had to be over come All core is at NICL

  2. WAIS Divide: CONUS Ice to 2,500 m distributed to PIs Will distribute all ice by this August Labs have started work on ice Outreach: Front page of Wall Street Journal, NOVA

  3. WAIS Divide: 2011/2012 • Borehole geophysics • Deepen main hole ~80 m if geophysics determines it is safe • Test replicate coring, collection of additional core from zones of special interest Science and drilling staffs will be about the same size, but less core will be recovered, and there will be more science groups. Main core hole Replicate core hole

  4. WAIS Divide: 2012+ 2005 2012/2013 season Replicate coring and a bit of borehole geophysics Arch is good for the 2012/2013 season, and maybe more 2013/2014 & 2014/2015 Borehole geophysics Maybe drill into bed? (Requires frozen bed and successful proposal.) Remove arch Maybe traverse materials to MCM? 2010

  5. WAIS Divide: Science Highlight Well defined annual layers permits dating to ~ 1%. 11,582 years at depth of 2,549 m. Expect annual layers to be well resolved to 40,000 years. Age-depth relationship is what has been expected, so main science goals should be achieved. The bed might be frozen, should we drill into the bed?

  6. WAIS Divide: Science Highlight Mount Tahake? Depth: 1,586 m Age: 8,161 years Mount Berlin? Depth: 1,766 m Age: 9,587 years ??? Depth: 3,030 m Age: ~44,000 years Clumpy tephra, deposited during summer? Dating by layer Counting ±1 %

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