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Winkie Drill
IDP Engineer Grant Boeckmann (left) operates the Winkie Drill on Thwaites Glacier in the Hudson Mountains. Also shown is scientist Seth Campbell (center) and IDP Research Intern Elliot Moravec (right). Credit: Brent Goehring
A 1.2 m bedrock core collected with the Winkie Drill during the 2019/20 Antarctic field season. The bedrock core was collected from the Hudson Mountains (lower Thwaites Glacier) area during the 2019/20 field season. Credit: Greg Balco
The Winkie Drill in Ong Valley, Antarctica, during the 2017-2018 Antarctic field season. Credit: Grant Boeckmann
The Winkie Drill in Ong Valley, Antarctica, during the 2017-2018 Antarctic field season. Credit: Dan Morgan
The Winkie Drill in Ong Valley, Antarctica, during the 2017-2018 Antarctic field season. Credit: Andrew Grant
The Winkie Drill in Ong Valley, Antarctica, during the 2017-18 field season. Credit: Grant Boeckmann
A mixed media core consisting of ice, silt and rock from Ong Valley, Antarctica. Credit: Grant Boeckmann
The assembled Winkie Drill system at the Ohio Range, Antarctica, during the 2016-2017 summer field season. Credit: Grant Boeckmann
Packaged rock cores drilled with the Winkie Drill during the 2016-2017 summer field season. Credit: Sujoy Mukhopadhyay
The Ohio Range field team (2016-2017 summer field season) after their first successful rock core with the Winkie Drill. Credit: Sujoy Mukhopadhyay