The US National Science Foundation Center for Oldest Ice Exploration (NSF COLDEX) is a Science and Technology Center formed in 2021 to explore Antarctica for the oldest possible ice core records of our planet’s climate and environmental history, and to help broaden participation in polar science. Learn more.
Recent News
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Congratulations to former COLDEX REU, Alissa Choi, who was selected as a 2025 Goldwater Scholar! (3/28/25)
Congratulations to former COLDEX REU, Rhys-Jasper León, who won an Outstanding Student Presentation Award for the cryosphere section at AGU 2024! (3/28/25)
Congratulations to COLDEXer Jamin Greenbaum, an honoree of The Explorers Club 50! Meet the EC50 Class of 2025 (Explorer’s Club, 1/31/25)
Breakthrough Antarctic ice extraction 'an enormous victory,' U of Manitoba researcher says (CBC, 1/9/25): featuring John Higgins
Huntington man braves Antarctica to research how ancient ice reveals Earth's climate history (Newsday, 12/14/24): featuring Jacob Chalif. Watch accompanying video here!
Bangladeshi scientist Fairuz selected for US Antarctic Program (The Daily Star, 11/21/24): Featuring Fairuz Ishraque
Dartmouth grad student in Antarctica praises food at camp (WCAX, 12/8/24): featuring Jacob Chalif
Dartmouth grad student in Antarctica to collect the planet’s oldest ice cores (WCAX, 12/5/24): featuring Jacob Chalif. Also covered on WHDH Boston.
History Trapped in Ice (Discovery Files Podcast, 11/24/24): featuring Peter Neff
NSF COLDEX will have a big presence at the AGU 2024 meeting! Check out the list of presentations here.
Scientists become a source of hope and information on TikTok, Instagram (LA Times, 9/12/24)
Congratulations to COLDEXer Fairuz Ishraque, graduate student at Princeton, who has been selected as the 2024 UCAR Next Generation Science Fellow! Ishraque will be working with NCAR’s Climate and Global Dynamics Lab to reconstruct glacial and climate history of Allan Hills with their Community Ice Sheet Model and the Community Earth Systems Model.