'EastGRIP - Ice Core'

Between 2015 and 2023, EastGRIP was an ice core drilling camp and an international science station on the Greenland ice sheet, the second-largest ice body in the world after the Antarctic ice cap. The team at EastGRIP, led by the University of Copenhagen in coordination with the Danish Centre for Ice and Climate and other partners, drilled through 2670 meters of ice dating back 120,000 years to glean new knowledge of ice-sheet dynamics and how fast-flowing ice streams will contribute to sea-level rise.

The resulting ice core will also create a new record of past climatic and atmospheric conditions from the northeastern part of the Greenland Ice Sheet, informing our understanding of how it may respond to a changing climate.

The 2022 summer marked the first fieldwork season since 2019, after the COVID-19 pandemic canceled the 2020 and 2021 field seasons. After two months of preparation, the drilling operation started on July 7th and ended on August 6th, 2022. It yielded a new 300 meters of core and reached a maximum depth of 2418.23 meters.

'EastGRIP - Ice Core' documents the succesful 2022 field season.