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 make polar science more inclusive and diverse. Learn more.
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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.
Anticipating Antarctica (Strata, Spring/Summer 2024): by Julia Marks Peterson
A Week at the National Science Foundation Ice Core Facility (CEOAS Chronicles, 5/21/24): blog post by Olivia Williams
COLDEX Director for Knowledge Transfer Dr. Heidi Roop will spend the next year serving as the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s Deputy Director for Services and the Assistant Director for Climate Services at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. During her time away, Dr. Peter Neff will serve as the COLDEX Interim Director for Knowledge Transfer.
Ice to know you (Denver 8, 5/19/24): Featuring the NSF Ice Core Facility and Olivia Williams