Ice Core Dilling in Lake Vida (IMAGE)

Desert Research Institute

Ice Core Dilling in Lake Vida

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Members of the 2010 Lake Vida expedition team, Dr. Peter Doran (professor, University of Illinois, Chicago), Dr. Chris Fritsen (research professor, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nev.) and Jay Kyne (an ice driller) use a sidewinder drill inside a secure, sterile tent on the lake’s surface to collect an ice core and brine existing in a voluminous network of channels 16 meters and more below the lake surface.

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Photo courtesy Desert Research Institute, Emanuele Kuhn

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