More Videos
There are two new videos that will explain the science and engineering in the drill site selection process and the science involved in dating the core. I was involved in both these tasks: I spent a week in Granite Harbor helping a seismic survey for a future drilling project, and my first month in McMurdo was working with smear slides for the diatom team to help date various depths of the core.
They aren’t on YouTube yet so I cannot embed them in this page, but you can view them on the ANDRILL site.
Video #4: Selecting Where to Drill
How are scientists able to decide where to drill? Why is ANDRILL drilling again? Will there be future drilling projects? Why? What do seismic surveys look like? What can they tell us? What are gravity surveys? What do they tell us?
Video #5: Telling Time
How do scientists know which are the oldest rocks? How can they interpret the age of the rocks? How specific are these dates? Which techniques are the most effective? How have these interpretation processes changed over time?
Videos here: http://andrill.org/iceberg/videos/2007/index.html
