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Chipmunk Drill
PI Bill Mcintosh holds a short core drilled with the Chipmunk Drill. During the 2024/25 field season, the G-065-M project used the Chipmunk Drill at Mount Waesche, West Antarctica, to collect over 400 samples of short, vertically oriented ice cores along a 4 km transect across a vertically oriented ash-bearing blue ice sequence. Credit: Nelia Dunbar.
The Chipmunk Drill is a hand-held, motor driven coring drill that collects 41 mm (1.6-inch) diameter cores in solid ice. It has two barrels, one 15 cm long and one 50 cm long. Credit: Chris Gibson
A scientist uses the Chipmunk Drill at Pakitsoq, West Greenland, in 2004 to recover samples of ice. Credit: Ed Brook