Antarctic Archives
NZ’s Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences has received international funding to drill more than a kilometre beneath Antarctica in order to gain access to the “untapped record of climate change” held in its sedimentary layers. Otago University’s Gary Wilson is to head the five-year NZ$40 million project, which involves penetrating thick layers of ice and up to 900 metres of seawater before drilling into the seabed itself.
