Surveying glacier movement on the Rutford Ice Stream

The daily meterological balloon launch at the British Antarctic Survey’s Halley VI Research Station on the Brunt Ice Shelf, Antarctica photo: Agnieszka Fryckowska

Shallow ice core drilling at Dome C. The ice core will be used to study the climate for the last 2000 years. Here the ice core is extracted from the drill barrel. This image is associated with the 2005-2010 BAS science programme: CACHE- Climate and Chemistry: Forcings, Feedbacks and Phasings in the Earth System.

An ice Core Slice