StormCenter's Team CoverageEemian Ice Core Researchers Hit Bedrock in Greenland!

They left Baltimore, MDin a 100-degree-F heat. wave... ...but when they landed in Greenland it was 14-degrees F with high winds!

Beginning in 2009, ice core researchers have been drilling through North-West Greenland's ice sheet to retrieve ice from the Eemian period, which dates back to more than 150,000 years. These ice cores are critical to undestanding Earth's climate history and peeking into our climate future because the Eemian interglacial period experienced warming much like we are currently, and due only to natural forcing. Greenland's ice sheet, unlike Antarctica, contains high-resolution, undisturbed ice cores that help us put the pieces together about rapid climate change.In July, 2010 the team of researchers finally reach bedrock - the bottom of the ice sheet (2,560 meters). Ice core sampling will be completed and a new journey into sampling of the basal material begins. StormCenter has sent a production team to Greenland to cover this incredible event - the sites, the sounds, the cheers and the valuable data collection that is so crucial not only to Greenland's Climate Story, but for the entire Earth. Stay tuned...

Dr. Jim White, andscenes from NEEM

Satterfield withice core samples