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ASS./FOTO/PHOTO: IS- OG KLIMAGRUPPEN ■ Search into the depths of history The International Polar Year puts Greenland in focus, research-wise. Almost 10,000 scientists are involved in a long series of scientific projects in connection with the polar year. One of these is a new ice core drilling project on the inland ice that will tell us about the history of the climate 130,000 years ago – and with it what we can expect if global warming continues. By Poul-Erik Philbert After a couple of years’ run-up IPY, or International Polar Year 2007-08, is now on our doorstep, officially starting on March 1st, 2007. Preparations have been made to bring the international polar research community together around a multitude of great projects encompassing all scientific disciplines. No less than 9000 researchers from 65 different countries have joined in 406 so-called research consortia that are preparing projects both in the Antarctic as well as the northern polar regions, including not least Greenland. It’s therefore not surprising that this is Suluk # 01•2007 66 the greatest initiative ever to be taken within polar research. The results will have wide-ranging consequences for research findings in coming years. Amongst the many researchers involved in the preparations for the International Polar Year are at least 300 Danish, Greenlandic and Faroese participants. Some of them started their activities in the most northeastern part of Greenland already this summer. Leading into the International Polar Year, the Research Council for Natural Science awarded DKK 10 million to a logistical platform that provi- ded 50 geologists, biologists, archaeologists and glaciologists with the opportunity to carry out research in otherwise inaccessible and remote areas in northernmost Greenland, using Station Nord as the point of entry. The researchers include a team from the Ice and Climate Group of the Niels Bohr Institute, which is known for its ground-breaking ice core drilling on Greenland’s inland ice and which heads one of the IPY’s larger international efforts.
Ice core researchers spent May and June 2006 on Flade Isblink, which is a small ice cap not far from Station Nord. Here, despite adversity in the form of many days of bad snowstorms, the drill team succeeded in drilling 430 metres of ice cores. The drilling was useful practice for preparing the team for major efforts in the future: – We used the drilling on Flade Isblink to test a new, environmentally friendly and biodegradable drilling fluid that can replace the fluid we previously used when we drilled on top of the inland ice, says Jørgen Peder Steffensen from the Ice and Climate Group. The new fluid is based on cocoanut oil and the experience we gained from this summer’s drilling is so positive that not only we, but also other international drilling projects will doubtlessly used the new fluid. The scientific aim was to investigate the ice cap’s climate history which can Air Greenland inflight magazine 67 ■ Nunat tamalaat akornanni Issittup ukiuani nunat tamalaat akornanni suliniuterujussuit ingerlanneqartussat ilaat tassaavoq Sermersuup qaavani sermimik qaqitsiviusumik sermersuarmi qillerineq. Qillerinermik suliaqartunit tamatumuuna sermitoqarujussuarmik ukiut 130.000-it sinnerlugit pisoqaassusilimmik taamalu sermersuaqarfiit akorninik matussusiisussamik nassaarnissaq neriuutigineqarpoq. ■ Et af de store internationale projekter under Det Internationale Polarår er det dansk ledede iskerneprojekt på Indlandsisens top. Iskernefolket håber denne gang at finde meget gammel is, som går mere end 130.000 år tilbage i tiden og dermed dækker hele den forrige mellemistid. ■ One of the big international projects under the International Polar Year is the Danish led ice core project on top of the inland ice. This time, the ice core team hope to find more than 130,000 year old ice which would cover the whole of the previous interglacial period. be read in the ice cores that are drilled out. Jørgen Peder Steffensen, who is responsible for the logistics of the drilling, says that the cap is probably not very old. He wouldn’t be surprised if next month’s analyses show that the icecap melted completely during the warm Middle Ages only 1000 years ago. The search for old ice Greenland must expect a minor invasion during the International Polar Year 2007-08. No less than 138 of the 406 international research consortia are related to research in Greenland. 300 Danish, Greenlandic and Faroese researchers have a share in 80 of these consortia and lead 24 of the international consortia. In all it is estimated that the IPY’s activities will draw 5- 6000 scientists, logisticians, technicians, aircraft personnel and others to Greenland. One of the big international, Danishled projects in Greenland is the new ice core drilling in the Northern part of the inland ice. Earlier ice core drilling in 1989-92 and 1999-2003 produced sensational and ground-breaking information about the climate up to more than 100,000 years ago. But one core is still missing – the core that covers the entire previous interglacial period – Eem – from 130,000 to 110,000 years ago. The NordGrip ice core from 1999-2003 covers the transition from the interglacial period to the last iceage 115,000 years ago, but it only contains half of the Eem period, because the bottom had melted away. An ice core that covers the entire Eem period is therefore at the top of the ice core drillers’ wish list. – We believe that this period can provide important information about our own interglacial period and present climate, and about the link between north and south which we suspect plays an active underlying role in connection with climate shifts between ice age and interglacial periods, says Jørgen Peder Steffensen. Now we want to make another attempt, this time in a northern location about 300 kilometres north of the NordGrip drill site and a couple of hundred kilometres east of Thule. Radio echo data collected by aircraft shows that there is a good chance that 2500-2600 metres down, the ice core drill will find ice that is more 130,000 years old, which means it covers all of the previous interglacial period. – Our project proposal has received wide international backing in the ice core community. At meetings in IPICS, which is the international forum for the ice core community, is has been decided that this is to be high priority amongst the international drilling projects in the northern hemisphere during the IPY. Interest has been so great, that not only will there be participants from leading, polar research nations like USA, Canada, Germany and Sweden
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