Comments on: Ice cores: From Antarctica to the lab http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/2011/11/04/ice-cores-from-antarctica-to-the-lab/?src=fromthefield-rss NASA scientists are in the field and write home to tell about it. Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:52:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Helen Bang http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/2011/11/04/ice-cores-from-antarctica-to-the-lab/comment-page-1/#comment-20775 Helen Bang Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:45:00 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/?p=2907#comment-20775 Thanks very much. Good luck with your trip.

Helen

]]> By: Maria-Jose Viñas http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/2011/11/04/ice-cores-from-antarctica-to-the-lab/comment-page-1/#comment-20727 Maria-Jose Viñas Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:04:02 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/?p=2907#comment-20727 Hi Helen,

Our ice cores are flown out of the field in Antarctica to McMurdo Station on what we call a “cold deck” flights (a flight where the heat has been turned off in the plane, so the cores can stay cold.) In McMurdo, the cores are kept in a freezer that is always below -20 C. They are then loaded into a freezer on a boat that arrives brings the cores to California. In California they are transferred to freezer trucks that carry them to the freezers at Brigham Young University. Quite a long trip for these important records of past climate!

Lora Koenig

]]> By: Helen Bang http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/2011/11/04/ice-cores-from-antarctica-to-the-lab/comment-page-1/#comment-20596 Helen Bang Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:54:54 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/?p=2907#comment-20596 PS, apologies, Lora, I misread your name.

]]> By: Helen Bang http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/2011/11/04/ice-cores-from-antarctica-to-the-lab/comment-page-1/#comment-20510 Helen Bang Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:35:39 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/?p=2907#comment-20510 Hello Lara,

I hope you will excuse me asking, but how is the ice transported from Antarctica? Does it travel by ship or air?

I am writing a comedy film about the PR wars around global warming called “Chicken Licken was right” My hero is a climate scientist trying to warn the world about AGW but coming up against the well-funded oil industry. I wondered if it was possible for him to have lost some ice samples at an airport. It’s okay if they’re not normally transported in the hold of a plane, but it would be useful for my plot if some could be! Perhaps it’s a small sample he wants to show his students.

Good luck with your trip and thank you for your work in this area. I’m really concerned about climate change but writing a comedy because I agree with Billy Wilder who said “If you’re gonna tell people the truth, make ‘em laugh or they will kill you.”

Helen Bang, Bonnybridge, Scotland

]]> By: peter willig http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/2011/11/04/ice-cores-from-antarctica-to-the-lab/comment-page-1/#comment-20338 peter willig Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:06:49 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/?p=2907#comment-20338 as a retired london- city-insurance worker, i am still ever curious about many things.
NASA are doing a fantastic job giving the world vital information regarding the arctic and antarctic regions. so that unconnected (to science) people can begin to understand such an important part of our world in such a practical way which is absolutely up to date i.e. 2011, when the original explorers only 100 years ago were
traversing this area for the very first time with such primative equipment and clothing.
we are priviliged to be able to tap in to the latest information almost as it happens.
thank you NASA and all the young operatives who make this possible. well done for a splendid achievement to all concerned.
thank you again. peter willig. east sussex. england.

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