Robert measuring a newly drilled, unbroken, 2.93 m long core on the logging bench. ‘Logging’ records details of the ice cores drilled with any damage noted on a Danish-designed core logging program on the laptop in the left of the photo. The program prompts for the measurements that must be recorded, and catches any mistakes made! Cores must be matched at the core break from one run to the next, and marks made in pencil on the ice where the long lengths must be cut into 1.0 m long ‘bag’ sections for transport onwards. We also mark on the ice the direction of the top of the core, and the bag number. Above the core is a roll of paper used for drying off the drilling fluid from the surface of the ice. To the right of the photo are racks with two hollow shaft sections (top and bottom) and an outer barrel (middle rack). On the floor, with green spirals, is the Danish core barrel
