The East Greenland Ice-core Project - EastGRIP - aims to retrieve an ice core by drilling through the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS). Ice streams are responsible for draining a significant fraction of the ice from the Greenland Ice Sheet, and we hope to gain new and fundamental information on ice stream dynamics from the project, thereby improving the understanding of how ice streams will contribute to future sea-level change. The drilled core will also provide a new record of past climatic conditions from the northeastern part of the Greenland Ice Sheet which will be analysed at numerous laboratories worldwide. The project has many international partners and is managed by the Centre for Ice and Climate, Denmark with air support carried out by US ski-equipped Hercules aircraft managed through the US Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation.
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To the right the “modulo bagno” an essential component of the Little Dome C Camp. To the left the internal layout of the “modulo bagno”. The module houses two showers/toilet (on the right), one additional toilet (in the backward), two sinks (left), and a washer-dryer unit (in the backward). Photo by C. Barbante.
This diagram illustrating the procedure for the deviation of the core has been taken by J. Westhoff et al., The Cryosphere, 2025