Paleo Slide Set: Polar Ice Cores
National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL)

Refrigerated vans transported the core boxes from the runway to the GISP2 
headquarters at the University of New Hampshire. Eventually, the entire GISP2 
core was placed in reflective cardboard canisters like these and stored at the 
National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL), a state-of-the-art cold storage facility jointly 
sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the United States Geological Survey, and 
the University of Colorado, Boulder. 

Photo Credits:
Kendrick Taylor 
DRI, University of Nevada-Reno.