FROID - Antarctic Research Project - BELARE 2024-2025 season

The BELSPO funded FROID research project with support from the International Polar Foundation and its staff spent 5+ weeks by the Nils Larsen blue ice field in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica. The research project's primary objective this season was to scout various locations in search of the World's oldest ice, drilling many shallow ice cores in the process The air bubbles trapped within these cores can be analyzed and used to reconstruct the Earth's past climate which simultaneously lends insight as to where the climate is heading in the future. Additionally, the team also ran ground penetrating radar to see all the way through the ice to the bedrock as well as carrying out high precision GPS measurements to determine the speed at which the ice is moving.