"These photographs correspond to Spanish researchers extracting ice core during 2007 Arctic expedition held in honour of the International Polar Year, co-ordinated in Spain by the Ministry of Science and Education (MEC) (ATOS project). ATOS project is a Spain’s contribution to the objectives of the Polar Year, an international initiative aimed at increasing the knowledge of polar regions and the implications of climate change on a global level."

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Dr. Andreas Ahlstrom (drilling) and Leigh Stearns of the Dept. of Quarternary Geology, Geological Survey of Denmark & Greenland, installing a weather station on Helheim Glacier in East Greenland in Summer 2006
Photographer:Gordon Hamilton, University of Maine

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Dr. Jack Kohler, Norwegian Polar Institute - Polar Environmental Center using the Kovacs MARK III in his field work in Svalbard

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