News & Publications

­­­Greenland Ice Cap Vanished Just 7000 years ago, Columbia Climate School, January 30, 2026.

What Greenland’s Ancient Past Reveals about Its Fragile Future, (Jeff DelViscio) Scientific American, June 2025.

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

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

Clleb K. Walcott-George, Nathan D. Brown, Jason P. Briner, Allie Balter-Kennedy, Nicolás E. Young, Tanner Kuhl, Elliot Moravec, Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Nathan T. Stevens, Benjamin Keisling, Robert M. DeConto, Vasileios Gkinis, Joseph A. MacGregor & Joerg M. Schaefer, 2026, Deglaciation of the Prudhoe Dome in northwestern Greenland in response to Holocene warming, Nat. Geosci, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01889-9

Scientists drilled through 500 metres of Greenland’s ice — here’s what they found at the bottom, Nature, December 14, 2023

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

Greenland drilling campaign aims for bedrock to trace ice sheet's last disappearance
Science, July 2, 2020

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

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 Moravec and 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.