International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 400 will depart for Baffin Bay this week. Today the science party is scheduled to move to the research vessel JOIDES Resolution in Reykjavik, Iceland. The objective of the expedition is to recover sediment cores from seven sites on the Northwest Greenland continental margin to obtain a paleo-archive of the behavior of the Greenland Ice Sheet during past warm periods. Melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet is currently contributing to sea-level rise worldwide and its behavior in the geological past will shed light on the end point of this melt in the future. Stayed tuned for more.
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