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by Tun Jan Young

How do you get a hot water drill onto an ice sheet? The Subglacial Access and Fast Ice Research Experiment (SAFIRE) uses a hot water drill to directly access and observe the physical and geothermal properties where the ice meets rock or sediment at the glacier-bed interface. Here, SAFIRE principal investigator Bryn Hubbard and post-doc Sam Doyle help fly in the drill spool at the start of the Summer 2014 field campaign on Store Glacier, Western Greenland.

Taken on 17 July 2014
Submitted on 22 February 2016

Featured on GeoLog, the official blog of the European Geosciences Union


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  • Cryospheric Sciences (464)
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  • North America (528)
  • Northern America (404)
  • Greenland (42)
  • Exact location (-49.5593 W, 70.4992 N)

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fieldwork, greenland, drill, ice sheet, glacier

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Camera: Nikon D7000

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Credit: Tun Jan Young (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)


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