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Magazine article about climate change and glacier response in Alaska

This is a one page article reporting on the test of the Bell Air Cushion Vehicle tested in Greenland between Tuto and Camp Century on the ice sheet.

Movie starts with aerial view of ice margin. Some areas have till cover. Others are ice and snow. There are two ramps leading up to the ice margin both appear to have bridges over the streams. The rest of the video shows mostly ice excavation…

Movie at start shows heavy swing, pole cats, men sampling snow and taking snow temperature in pits. At 2:08, action moves to Site 2, where we see drill rig being moved (the trench roof is opened) and then we see solid stem drilling, Lyle Hansen moves…

Big Picture: Research and Development in the Arctic - National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 2569635 / Local Identifier 111-TV-366 - DVD Copied by Katie Filbert. "THE BIG PICTURE" cameramen follow Army engineers into Artic…

TV show that uses cold and snowy weather in Buffalo New York to argue that Earth's climate is cooling. This is a "scare film". Interview with Chester Langway at 10:32 talking about rapid cooling Earth at 89,000 years ago. He is in a freezer with ice…

Article about 25 arctic research specialists and officials being caught in a storm while visiting the recently inaugurated Camp Tuto ice tunnel; this camp in addition to another, Camp Century, will be used to test the feasibility of military bases…

Brief article about Dr. Henri Bader, chief scientist of Sipre, joining the University of Miami's school of engineering faculty under a $36,000 contract from the US Army; he will be performing research on samples he gathered from being in Greenland…

Article about a new thermal drill being tested at Camp Century by the CRREL for drilling ice cores out of the Greenland Ice Sheet; the samples may contain ice tens or hundreds of thousands years old or even one million years old (the start of the…

Brief article about a new thermal drill used for obtaining ice cores from the Greenland Ice Sheet; the samples most likely contain ice from the beginning of the ice ages; diagram at top created by French scientists shows a cross section of the ice…

Article about Army scientists in Washington DC reporting their success in drilling a 4,562 foot ice core from the Greenland Icecap at Camp Century; "ingredients" separated by layers in the ice core samples can be used to date them; a 2,000 year old…

Article about geographer Virginia Prentice, the only woman involved in field work for Project Dribble, an underground nuclear explosion test; she had previously worked for CRREL in New Hampshire. Includes photo of Prentice at left. Partner was…

Newspaper photo with caption of Army scientists leaders (from left to right) B. Lyle Hansen, Dr. Chester C. Langway Jr., and Dr. Jay T. Thomas displaying Greenland ice core samples at a Pentagon conference; sample at left is about 10,000 years old…

Newspaper photo with caption of Army scientists leaders (from left to right) Dr. Lyle Hansen, Dr. Chester C. Langway Jr., and Dr. Jay T. Thomas displaying two Greenland ice core samples at a Pentagon conference; sample at left is about 10,000 years…

Article about scientists observing "the story of the snows" in ice core samples taken at Dye 3 radar station in Greenland; they have dug 6,687 feet deep and are planning to soon reach ice at the very bottom which may be 100,000 years old; the samples…

Obituary for Willi Dansgaard, a Danish paleoclimatologist who discovered that the history of Earth's climate could be observed via ice cores from the Greenland Icecap and established ice core science as key in climate history research; he…

Article about Army scientists of CRREL digging through almost a mile of the Greenland Icecap and presenting samples of the ice cores at a Pentagon conference; news reporters were served drinks with ice formed 2,000 years ago 1,800 feet below the…

Three newspaper photos with captions about Camp Century, built by US Army Engineers; top left shows a "snowblasting machine" which breaks down snow so that it turns into a sandstone-like substance when it is hardened; when the processed snow is blown…

Section of an article about events planned for the University of Vermont; paragraph at bottom right states that Dr. Chester C. Langway Jr., chief of Snow & Ice branch of US Army's CRREL, will give a lecture in the Geology building on "Greenland…

Article about the US Army PR&DC's Camp Century comprised of tunnels under the Greenland Ice Sheet; includes prefabricated buildings for living quarters for 100 men, a nuclear reactor, mess hall, maintenance shop, hospital, library, movie house,…

Article about the PM-2A nuclear reactor to be installed at Camp Century for supplying year-round power; reactor was built by Alco Products under a contract with the US Army; one loading of uranium fuel will power the camp for a year in comparison to…

Article about Chester C. Langway Jr.'s Greenland ice core samples held at the Buffalo Refrigerating Co's freezer plant; the samples contain atmospheric information of past years including temperatures, carbon dioxide levels, acid snow, and dust…

Article about the construction of Camp Century to house 100 scientists, engineers, and technicians who work to extract and study ice cores from Greenland's icecap; observing the isotope ratios, particles, air current deposits, and air bubbles…

Article about cosmic dust falling to the Earth's surface and being collected by scientists from isolated areas such as the Arctic where the particles are less likely to be contaminated; Chester C. Langway Jr. of CRREL studied the deposition rate of…

Article about Dr. James H. Zumberge, an authority in glaciology, predicting that a warm period will begin in 1985; Chester C. Langway Jr. of CRREL, one of Dr. Zumberge's graduate students, was studying oxygen isotope ratios in Greenland ice cores;…

Article about the University of Nebraska Lincoln hiring Dr. James H. Zumberge, an authority in glaciology, as chancellor of the school; this resulted in a new center for glacial studies established by the National Science Foundation at the school…

Article about US Army scientists at Sipre studying Greenland ice cores to "solve riddles of the past"; samples can be analyzed to show annual snowfall dating back to 1100 AD and the degree of contamination caused by the Industrial Revolution; Dr.…

Article about Greenland ice core samples dating back to 1100 AD being studied by US Army scientists at the Sipre laboratory in Wilmette, IL; air bubbles in the samples, which have layers representing annual snowfall, can be analyzed to determine the…

Brief article about Greenland collecting particles of comets, asteroids, and potentially the moon in its uncontaminated snow; Dr. Chester C. Langway Jr., US Army glacier expert, claims Greenland samples can be analyzed for research on these…

Newspaper photo with caption of US Army scientists (from left to right) B. Lyle Hansen, Dr. Chester C. Langway Jr., and Dr. Jay T. Thomas displaying two Greenland ice core samples at a Pentagon conference; sample at left is about 10,000 years old…