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APPENDIX D: Status of Ice Core Storage Facility at State University of New York, Buffalo
APPENDIX D: Status of Ice Core Storage Facility at State University of New York, Buffalo
Pages 62-67
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The objective of maintaining the Central Ice Core Storage Facility is to centralize and to maintain an accurate inventory of the ice cores and other polar samples recovered in DPP's general ice core drilling operations in both the northern and southern hemispheres and to make the portion of these samples not originally preprogrammed available to NSF-approved recipients at worldwide locations for various investigations. The facility operates under contract with DPP.
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1963-66 Greenland Dye 2, 1977 Greenland C.C. 1963-66 Greenland Study 36cl,10Be CH4, N20 CH4, N20 Elemental Carbon Composition of particles in surface snow samples Krypton 81 dating
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1963-66 Dye 3, 1981 Greenland Byrd 1968 Antarctica Byrd 1968 Antarctica Core Sample Study CO^ concentration Acidity Concentration and »C H2 concentration XRF analysis of pollutants Ir, Ni, concentration of 17 gases Volcanic ash The current ice core archive contains 16 individual ice cores recovered from various geographical locations in Greenland and Antarctica. Detailed information is contained in the brochure "Ice Core Samples from Greenland and Antarctica," October, 1983.
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As an example, coordination of cold storage space, needs, projections, transport problems, redistribution, etc., would be better met if these requirements were discussed within the science section and integrated with anticipated ice core acquisition plans resulting from field drilling activities. Recommendations and approvals for ice core requests for scientific studies should be based on considerations established by scientists familiar with the total impact of the study.
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However, the measuring techniques are difficult, and the interpretation of the measured data in terms of atmospheric CC>2 concentrations is complicated. From a scientific point of view, the amount of carbon dioxide in the air through time is of critical importance to the unraveling of cause and effect between suspected climatic forcing mechanisms and observed or proxy climatic records.
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From such testing, preferred fluids might be identifiable that would be adequate from both the perspective drillers and that of the scientists. Many such examples can be given -- and many will arise -- that argue for the need to have strong scientific goal-setting and ongoing oversight of the spectrum of ice coring activities.
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