News
Scientists drilled through 500 metres of Greenland’s ice — here’s what they found at the bottom
Nature, December 14, 2023
Buried Under Ice, (Sarah Kaplan et al.)
The Washington Post, August 25, 2023
2023 Arctic Ice Drilling Sites
U.S. Ice Drilling Program website, 2023
Greenland drilling campaign aims for bedrock to trace ice sheet's last disappearance
Science, July 2, 2020
Groundbreaking Project Will Drill Into Bedrock Below Greenland Ice to Understand Past and Future Melting
State of the Planet, July 16, 2020
Bedrock drilling project to unlock Greenland Ice Sheet’s secrets
University at Buffalo, July 16, 2020
Greenland bedrock drilling project to understand past, future ice sheet melting
PennState, July 16, 2020
Greendrill — discovering Greenland’s ancient past
University of Massachusetts Amherst, July 20, 2020
Videos
Jason Briner talk given for the University of Massachusetts, Amherst seminar series Fall 2022.
Debuting on American Geophysical Union TV at the December 2022 meeting (#AGU22), GreenDrill researchers Joerg Schaefer, Gisela Winckler, Allie Balter-Kennedy, and Margie Turrin of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and University at Buffalo's Jason Briner discuss their work to diagnose the trauma to Greenland's ice sheet, and pinpoint its most vulnerable areas and impacts to coastal communities.
Abstracts AGU 2023
AGU SCIENCE SESSIONS
Allie Balter-Kennedy, Joerg M Schaefer, Jason P Briner, Nicolas E. Young, Caleb Walcott, Tanner Kuhl, Elliot Moravec, Benjamin Andrew Keisling, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Nathan Stevens and Nathan Brown (2023) First Results from GreenDrill: Exposure dating in sub-ice material from Prudhoe Dome, northwestern Greenland (C14A-07) presented at AGU23, 11-15 Dec.
Jason P Briner, Caleb Walcott, Elliot Moravec, Alexandra Balter-Kennedy, Nathan Brown, Nicolas E. Young, Tanner Kuhl and Joerg Schaefer (2023), Holocene ice-sheet history at the Prudhoe Dome margin, NW Greenland: Samples for exposure dating (CRN and OSL) beneath and beyond the ice margin (C11D-1072) presented at AGU23, 11-15 Dec.
Mary R Albert, Elliot Moravec, Tanner Kuhl, Richard V Erickson, Forest Harmon, Kristina Slawny, Jay Johnson, Joerg Schaefer, Jessica Ackerman, Allie Balter-Kennedy, Jason P Briner, Caleb Walcott and Nicolas E. Young, (2023) Unique IDP Sub-Ice Drilling Yields Success for Science in Greenland (C11D-1073) presented at AGU23, 11-15 Dec.
Joerg M Schaefer, Jason P Briner, Allie Balter-Kennedy, Caleb Walcott, Nicolas E. Young, Benjamin Andrew Keisling, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Nathan Stevens, Tanner Kuhl, Elliot Moravecand Kristina Slawny (2023) The basal zone beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet as new paleo-archive to constrain ice sheet vulnerability in space and time– early lessons from the GreenDrill project (PP13B-08) presented at AGU23, 11-15 Dec.
Caleb Walcott, Jason P Briner, Joerg M Schaefer, Nicolas E Young, Allie Balter-Kennedy and Nathan Brown (2023) Ancient landscapes in Inglefield Land, northwest Greenland were preserved during Last Glacial Maximum ice cover (EP13E-1814) presented at AGU23, 11-15 Dec.
AGU EDUCATION SESSIONS
Alejandro A Mundo, Doria Hillsman and Margie Turrin (2023) Integrating Ice Flow and Glacier Research from Greenland and Polar Regions into Innovative Climate Curriculum (ED31A-04) presented at AGU23, 11-15 Dec. Link to StoryMap Activity.
Margie Turrin, Janice Yohannan, Joerg Schaefer, Jason P Briner, Nicolas E Young, Scientific Teams of GreenDrill & GRate Projects (2023) Polar Climate Ambassadors: Expanding polar science literacy through high school student ambassadors (ED31A-07) presented at AGU23, 11-15 Dec. Link to presentation.
Publications
Joerg M.Schaefer, Robert C. Finkel, Greg Balco, Richard B. Alley, Marc W. Caffee, Jason P. Briner, Nicolas E. Young, Anthony J. Gow & Roseanne Schwartz, 2016, Greenland was nearly ice-free for extended periods during the Pleistocene
Jason P. Briner, Caleb K. Walcott, Joerg M. Schaefer, Nicolás E. Young, Joseph A. MacGregor, Kristin Poinar, Benjamin A. Keisling, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Mary R. Albert, Tanner Kuhl and Grant Boeckmann, 2022, Where to GreenDrill? Site selection for cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating of the bed of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Benjamin Andrew Keisling, Joerg M. Schaefer, Robert DeConto, Jason P. Briner, Nicolás E. Young, Caleb Walcott, Gisela Winckler, Allie Balter-Kennedy , Sridhar Anandakrishnan, 2022, Greenland ice sheet vulnerability under diverse climatic warming scenarios https://doi.org/10.31223/X5Q05T
GreenDrill is funded under the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Polar Programs.