CU-Boulder Environmental Studies Program

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Icy daquiris at NGRIP

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James White (ENVS, Geological Sciences, & INSTAAR faculty) (on the left) prepares banana daquiris for a summer Saturday night party at the NorthGRIP drilling site (North Greenland Ice core Project), Greenland Ice Sheet, July 2004. White directs INSTAAR's Stable Isotope Laboratory, which analyzes over 10,000 ice samples per year, yielding high-resolution records of past temperatures from the isotopic ratios of hydrogen and oxygen. Photo: J. White (INSTAAR).