Using the Blue Ice Drill to collect ice © H. Roop

Ice Core Resources

Check out the below resources to learn more and go into greater depth about how and why scientists collect and study ice cores. To access the content, just click on the bottom with the name of the site you would like to visit. This should open that resources in a separate page.
Please feel free to let us know about other great resources that we can post. We would also love to post resources in languages other than English!


​West Antarctica Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide Videos

Brought to you by NSF Science 360! These are three great videos about the United States' most recent large ice core drilling project in West Antarctica. The project is known as the WAIS Divide Ice Core Drilling Project. The video about modelling is very informative and all of the videos are appropriate for a wide-range of age groups.

EducaPoles Climate Archives Video- in three languages!

Check out this great video about drilling in the Antarctic and Greenland icecaps, and how ice cores are studied.