Scientists Study Ancient Icebergs For Clues About Modern Climate Change

By Stephanie Mlot

This tabular iceberg in the Scotia Sea broke off the Antarctic ice shelf (via David Stanley/Wikimedia Commons)

More than two dozen researchers are on their way to Antarctica to collect clues from ancient icebergs.

Carrying a massive team of scientists, the drillship JOIDES Resolution left Chile on March 20, headed for the Southern Hemisphere.

There, Expedition 382: Iceberg Alley and Subantarctic Ice and Ocean Dynamics of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) will drill cores of sediment from a remote section of the seafloor.

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