Binghamton Earth Sciences

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What’s that growing out of our drill tent? Our rig has an 8.2m mast. That’s higher than our drill tent - luckily the tent has a removable flap! Watch carefully & you might spot the fluoro helmet of Ryan Steadman putting pegs in the mast as it extends 👉 bit.ly/3BwGgjz

Jumping for joy to make it to KIS3! The last of our on-ice team have arrived. Scientists Linda Armbrecht, Arne Ulfers, Yuri Yamazaki & Luca Zurli, hot water driller Stephen Stretch, and videographer Anthony Powell are ready to put in the hard yards to retrieve the sediment core.

We’ve broken through the ice shelf! This morning our crack team of hot water drillers melted their way through 587.96m of the Ross Ice Shelf to reach the ocean cavity, providing crucial access to climate secrets in the seafloor below. Well-deserved ‘victory toasties’ all round!

Grand Designs ‘Turdis’ edition. It’s the little things that count at camp - particularly when it comes to toilets. Our Turdis has recently had an upgrade. Although others tried their hand at the DIY, this was a job for our snow brick builder extraordinaire Sean Heaphy!

If it’s ice flight day it’s a great day! We’re sharing Antarctic vocab this season, so that you too #TalklikeanAntarctican. After all the preparation, and the frequent weather delays, boarding your ice flight south is a huge milestone. And oh, those views! bit.ly/3Dh5TVZ

Things are heating up at our deep-field camp on the grounding zone of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet – hot water drilling is underway. Co-Chief Richard Levy (GNS Science and VicUniWgtn) shares our second Expedition Update, including a sneak peek of our borehole.

Running out of clean socks on the Ross Ice Shelf? Camp mini-washing machine to the rescue! We’re making hot water from snow to drill through the ice shelf, so we can use this supply for our camp washing machine. Hot water driller Hedley Berge took the machine for its first spin.

Our Antarctic Intermediate Depth Drill team have been hard at work with our ‘big rig’. They’ve assembled the geological drill that has weathered a long Antarctic winter here at KIS3. To prepare for drilling they’re using the rig to put together the drill pipe. 📷Ana Tovey

The last of our on-ice team have arrived, and have taken part in Antarctic Field Training to learn skills for life at our deep-field camp. The four scientists – Arne Ulfers, Linda Armbrecht, @LucaZurli & Yuri Yamazki – and driller Stephen Stretch, had perfect weather for camping.

We now have a well cavity, and well pump installed. The well pump is vital – circulating water through the system, pumping an endless supply to drill our main borehole right through the ice shelf. It was all hands on deck to ensure a safe and successful install! 📷Ana Tovey

Hot water drilling is underway! We've begun boring the well hole through the Ross Ice Shelf, using water from snow, circulated through our six boilers, passed down through a hot water drill nozzle. We'll melt to below sea level, bore a well cavity, and lower a pump. 📷Ana Tovey

❄️It’s snowing at KIS3 today! We’re lucky to have several heated spaces on site to warm up if needed.  🎥 Ana Tovey/ SWAIS2C

It’s flubber feeding time! Over the past few days at KIS3 something big, yellow and hungry for snow, has been growing in size – our flubbers. They’re a crucial step in our efforts to access sediment below the ice shelf – providing the water we need to start hot water drilling.

We’re on an ambitious mission for sediment core, but even getting to our site is a mission! Our drilling camp is incredibly remote – KIS3 is 860km from the nearest base. Getting there requires some serious logistics, specialised polar transport, and of course – a weather window.

Oh yes we Kamb! The first of our science team have made to to KIS3, our deep-field drilling camp on the Kamb Ice Stream, nearly 900 km from Scott Base.  📷 Ana Tovey/SWAIS2C

🐧Our mascots are in Antarctica forcool science & we need students’ help to name them! While they wait to fly to our deep-field site & help with our cutting-edge science, they’re exploring Scott Base & McMurdo Station! Enter your names by Dec 22 👉 forms.gle/jVkAc5TBxVrvvj…

Update from the ice! Our two Co-Chief Scientists, and half of the science team, are at Scott Base, prepped and ready to deploy to our deep-field camp 860km away at KIS3. Co-Chief @vandeflierdt (@ESEImperial, @imperialcollege) shares our first Expedition Update.

When you gotta get your steps in, but you like napping…It's Antarctica Day, the anniversary of the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, which designated the continent to peace and science. We're celebrating by sharing this Weddell seal that our team met today (keeping at least 10m distance!).