Day 4 at the camp, we woke up with snow, and some leaks in the containers. Spirit was low, but heaters came from Lhasa to save the day. The platform is almost ready to be towed out to the lake and drilling will hopefully start in 2 days. Here is a pic of our internet cafe...

Day 5 at the Shangrila camp, and first day out on the lake, to get gravity cores. We struggled with sand and gravels but finally got some decent mud and samples! #Namco ICDP #NamCore

Drilling barge is anchored, and the day shift team is now offshore to get the first ICDP #Namcore sediments! 🎉 Picture by Robin Pardey

First night shift on the barge ! And first official #NamCore cores!! Scientific and drilling team are working hand in hand to deliver the first sediments ICDP.

To track down core contamination by drilling fluids, we added fluo dye to the mixture, painting the ICDP pipes in this vivid green

Down to ca 150m deep in #NamCo ICDP ! The home of mud breccia 🤩

112% recovery for the #NamCore night shift tonight... and 3-0 Germany..

The first #namcore field team is done, time to leave place for fresh energy ! Thanks everyone for the great work, 270m deep in site 1 of the Nam Co ICDP and many great memories!!

Why do scientists drill the ground? Fascinating Collection now complete, from ICDP . Dive in to find out what #drilling deep tells us, from #climatechange to #volcano dangers, to #heat extraction - and what's down there! ➡ fro.ntiers.in/Drill #earthscience #geology

📢We have a 2+1 year postdoc position opening at Universität Bern, focusing on marine heatwaves and compound events. Apply now! climate.unibe.ch/unibe/portal/f…

the team is still working hard up there!

Pleased to say the second paper of my PhD has been published today! We explore the lake history of Diss Mere and the interactions between climate variability, anthropogenic activity and environmental responses. Available open access here: doi.org/10.1002/jqs.36… RHULGeography

Record breaking drilling! Good job everyone! ICDP Universität Bern Swiss National Science Foundation

The ICDP Nam Co Drilling Project (Tibet) final depth 510.2m blf reached👍Congratulations to the team🏆. Lake Nam Co is one of the largest and deepest lakes on the Tibetan Plateau: ℹ️ icdp-online.org/projects/by-co…

Brief Communication: Evidence of dark oxygen production at the abyssal seafloor AndrewKSweetman Danielle de Jonge Alycia (she/her) Jeffrey Marlow Alastair Lough @clarewoulds Dr Will Homoky Scottish Association for Marine Science JNCC Boston University nature.com/articles/s4156…

Thanks ICDP and film maker Curtis Li for this overview of what we were doing up in Tibet just for months ago youtu.be/ivaRcpaRTq4?si…

ICDP project in Antarctica👉watch the SWAIS2C hot water drilling preparations: now busy melting down through the firn layer to approx. 100 metres, then through 580m-thick ice shelf to reach 55m-thick sea water cavity ℹ️icdp-online.org/all-events/det…

In June-July of 2024, the ICDP NamCore drilling project was carried out at an altitude of 4700m on Lake NamCo, Tibet.🏔️🌏 Check out this video showcasing the project: youtube.com/watch?v=ivaRcp…

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