Traverse vehicle train moving cargo from the former NGRIP camp to the NEEM site in 2007
Hercules airplane at the NEEM site
The main dome at NEEM constructed in 2008, along with the trenches and other structures making up the NEEM camp
In 2009 drillers drilled 1655 m in on season!
Group picture at the celebration of passing the 2 km mark in 2010
In 2011 the main dome was put on skis
The final NEEM ice core drilled July 19 2012
The traverse left NEEM on Monday 18th May 2015 pulling the NEEM equipment across the ice, heading for the EastGRIP camp site
The North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling - NEEM - was an international ice core research project aimed at retrieving an ice core from North-West Greenland (camp position 77.45°N 51.06°W) reaching back through the previous interglacial, the Eemian. The project logistics was managed by the former Centre for Ice and Climate, Denmark, and the air support was carried out by US ski equipped Hercules managed through the US Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation.
The drilling was completed in 2012, however the scientific work of processing and interpreting data is ongoing. Read more about the findings in the publications section.
In 2015 the camp was packed down and the equipment was pulled across the ice for another deep drilling project, The East Greenland Ice-core Project (EastGRIP). This project aims to retrieve an ice core by drilling through the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS). Read more about the EastGRIP project here.
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