Ice
The Greenland Ice Sheet covers around 80% of Greenland with an average of one kilometer thickness of ice. The ice shapes the landscape by grinding away underlying rocks and enters the ocean in the form of liquid water, enormous calved icebergs, and smaller pieces “bergy bits,” an actual scientific term, carried by glacial rivers.
VAIGAT STRAIT – West Greenland
Icebergs calved from the west side of the Greenland Ice Sheet found floating around in the Vaigat Strait provide water for this sample. Scientists collected cores of icebergs using a specially designed drilling drone. These ice cores have been analysed via the now-melted ice preserved in these bottles.
GREENLAND ICE SHEET – North-east Greenland
The pieces of glacial ice stem from the north-east Greenland part of the Inland Ice Sheet, and were collected by scientists from a roaring glacial river during the melt season. The ice samples were carried back to a field laboratory and used for experiments to study the effect of melting ice on marine organisms