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Ross Shelf reports
AIDD team assemble drill pipe
12 December 2024
While our hot water drillers are busy getting our hole through the ice shelf underway, our AIDD (Antarctic Intermediate Depth Drill) team have also been hard at work with our…
Ross Shelf reports
Last of the on-ice team take part in field training
11 December 2024
The last members of our on-ice team have arrived in Antarctica, and have taken part in Antarctic Field Training (AFT) to learn essential skills required for life at our deep-field…
Ross Shelf reports
Hot water drilling is underway
10 December 2024
Today the team began boring the well hole through the Ross Ice Shelf.
Ross Shelf reports
First load in the camp washing machine
09 December 2024
Running out of clean socks on the Ross Ice Shelf? Camp mini-washing machine to the rescue!
Ross Shelf reports
Making water for hot water drilling
06 December 2024
The hot water drill team are making excellent progress at KIS3.
Ross Shelf reports
Science team arrives at KIS3
04 December 2024
Five members of the science team, including the two Co-Chiefs Richard Levy and Tina van de Flierdt, flew to the drilling site at KIS3 on 4 December on a Basler…
Ross Shelf reports
The drill tent is up!
29 November 2024
The wind at KIS3 has eased, allowing the drill teams to complete the final step of assembling the drill tent – putting the skin on.
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Our 2024/25 season is underway
27 November 2024
The Antarctica New Zealand traverse arrived at KIS3 on 15 November, after a 15-day, 1328 km journey across the Ross Ice Shelf.
Ross Shelf reports
End of the first season at KIS-3
28 December 2023
The first SWAIS2C field season at the KIS-3 drill site on the Ross Ice Shelf is over, and our on-ice team is heading home with some cool new data and…
Ross Shelf reports
Tuesday 26 December 2023
26 December 2023
What is an interstitial water sample and why do we care?