This year we aim to traverse from Raven Base towards the east coast just south of Helheim Glacier. The traverse will be about 700km. We will drill three 50 m long cores ACT11-A,B,C and a 300 m core at Raven in cooperation with GLISN (http://glisn.info/).
As we approach the coast we expect accumulation rates to increase to a point and then decrease rapidly as increasingly harsh katabatic winds sublimate accumulated snow. At about 1500m, ACT11-A will be the lowest elevation core ever drilled on the Greenland Ice Sheet.
This year we aim to traverse from Raven Base towards the east coast just south of Helheim Glacier. The traverse will be about 700km. We will drill three 50 m long cores ACT11-A,B,C and a 300 m core at Raven in cooperation with GLISN (http://glisn.info/).
As we approach the coast we expect accumulation rates to increase to a point and then decrease rapidly as increasingly harsh katabatic winds sublimate accumulated snow. At about 1500m, ACT11-A will be the lowest elevation core ever drilled on the Greenland Ice Sheet. 
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