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6-650: The East Greenland Ice-Core Project , known as EGRIP, is a scientific project that plans to retrieve an ice core from the Northeast Greenland ice stream . The first season in the field was 2015; the project was expected to be drilling through to the base of the ice sheet by 2020. Much of the camp set up for the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling Project (NEEM) was moved to the EGRIP location in 2015. The equipment

12-507: A single-season deep ice core drilling record in 100 days. On July 26, 2010, drilling reached bedrock at 2537.36 m. The November/December 2007 issue of MIT Technology Review magazine and its website carried a report on early efforts to establish this camp. The research goal is to seek preserved ice from the Eemian, which included a warming period in Earth's history. After the conclusion of

18-411: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Greenland -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . NEEM Camp NEEM Camp was a small research facility on the northern Greenland Ice Sheet , used as a base for ice core drilling. It was located about 313 km east of the closest coast, Peabody Bay in northern Greenland , 275 km northwest of

24-485: The historical ice sheet camp North Ice , and 484 km east-northeast of Siorapaluk , the closest settlement. There was one heavy-duty tent for accommodation of the researchers during summer. Access was by skiway (snow runway). 79°N 50°W  /  79°N 50°W  / 79; -50 The acronym NEEM stands for North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling. The ice at the NEEM coring location (77°27'N 51°3.6'W)

30-596: Was predicted to be 2545 m thick. Drilling started at NEEM in June 2009 and drillers expected to hit bedrock in 2010. The drilling progressed well and reached through the brittle zone (~800 m) in mid-July 2009. The plan was to process the ice below the brittle zone, per decision at the steering committee meeting in November 2008 in Copenhagen. By September 1, 2009, the coring had reached 1757.84 m for this season, setting

36-554: Was towed by several tractors. The team ran low on fuel and had to abandon some equipment, arriving at the EGRIP location on 26 May, after nine days of towing. In March 2020, the 2020 EGRIP field campaign was cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic . The 2021 field season was also cancelled. EastGRIP reopened for field work in 2022, where the CryoEgg reached new depths in the ice, under pressures in excess of 200 bar and temperatures of around -30c. This glaciology article

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