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Winkie Drill
IDP Winkie Drill operations in the inflatable Axion tent in NE Greenland in support of the GreenDrill project during the 2024 field season. Credit: Allie Balter-Kennedy.
Drilling with the Winkie Drill at Mount Waesche, West Antarctica, during the 2024/25 field season. Credit: Nels Iverson.
A subglacial porous lava bedrock core recovered with the Winkie Drill at Mount Waesche, Antarctica, during the 2024/25 field season. Credit: Elliot Moravec.
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
IDP Driller Rubin Harmon operates the Winkie Drill in windy conditions in northwest Greenland during the 2023 field season for the GreenDrill project. Credit: Jason Briner.
IDP engineer and driller, Elliot Moravec, working with the Winkie Drill during the 2023 GreenDrill field season. Credit: Jason Briner.
IDP engineer and driller, Elliot Moravec, works with one of the drill bits for the Winkie Drill during the 2023 GreenDrill field season. Credit: Jason Briner.
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
A mixed media core consisting of ice, silt and rock from Ong Valley, Antarctica. Credit: Grant Boeckmann
The Winkie Drill in Ong Valley, Antarctica, during the 2017-18 field season. Credit: Grant Boeckmann
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 2017-2018 Antarctic field season. Credit: Dan Morgan
The Winkie Drill in Ong Valley, Antarctica, during the 2017-2018 Antarctic field season. 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