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Ancient Ice and Our Planet's Future
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WAIS Divide Ice Core Project, National Science Foundation

This short video describes how the compression of Antarctic snow into ice captures air from past atmospheres. It shows how ice cores are drilled from the Antarctic ice and prepared for shipment and subsequent analysis.

Video length: 4:38 minutes.

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Teaching Tips | Science | Pedagogy | Technical Details

Teaching Tips

  • Use as a short intro to lesson on ice cores. This is the first in a three-video series, which also includes "Life on the Ice" and "Modeling our Future Climate".

About the Content

  • Video shows the process of collecting ice cores. No data is shown or discussed.
  • Comments from expert scientist: The video explains the importance of climate change, and the usefulness of scientific study to understand past climate for the purpose of becoming better at predicting future climate. The focus is WAIS Divide and the ice coring operations taking place there. The video explains how ice layers accumulate and how pockets of air form within the layers. Explanations of how the cores are collected and logged are included. The science is accurate, but does not go in-depth.

About the Pedagogy

  • The video is not accompanied by any background materials - although there is lots of background material on the project website - http://www.waisdivide.unh.edu/

Technical Details/Ease of Use

  • Excellent quality. The images and video are high resolution and suitable for projection in a classroom.
Entered the Collection: July 2014 Last Reviewed: July 2014

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