Photo Gallery from the Teaching with Ice Cores Workshop
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Photos by Karin Kirk
Outside the ice core
It was 20 below (C) inside the freezer!
Warm clothing was mandatory.
Todd Sowers point out a drill press
used to prepare ice cores as Allan Ashworth looks on.
Ice cores in
labeled plastic sleeves
The penguin must be the universal symbol
meaning "keep this frozen."
Two Antarctic ice cores.
The core in the background has a distinctive layer of volcanic ash.
The core in the foreground has large air bubbles trapped in the
These large gas bubbles contain samples of ancient air used to
determine past climate.
An ice core for show and tell.
Penn State's Todd Sowers holds an ice core during the tour of the
ice core freezer and laboratory.
Todd Sowers shows equipment used to
extract gasses from ice cores.
Participants were treated to samples from
45,000 year old ice from the Moulten ice core in Antarctica.
Ester Sztein enjoys a snack of the ancient ice.
A piece of ice from the
Mt. Moulten ice core
in West Antarctica. This ice is 45,000
years old, and gas bubbles of varying sizes are plainly visible.
Photos by Allan Ashworth
The ice core workshop
Working on teaching activities
Presenting ideas for
teaching with ice core data
Cathy Whitlock, Makeeya Hazelton and
Dressing for success to enter the ice core freezer
an ice core in the freezer
Photos by Dallas Rhodes
examine an ice core.
USNC/INQUA Chair Allan Ashworth presents an ice
core for the workshop group to look at.
Workshop participant J.
Elmo Rawlings enjoys a snack of 45,000 year old Antarctic ice.
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