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Secrets Beneath the Ice

Air Date: 12/01/2010

NOVA: Secrets Beneath the Ice
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Explore engaging Science Education media for 6th-8th graders from NOVA: Secrets Beneath The Ice.  Learn how Antarctica affects global climate through the University of Nebraska’s revolutionary drilling initiative, ANDRILL.

At the bottom of the Earth is a continent encased in ice, a place so remote and mysterious that it’s largely unknown to most people. Yet Antarctica holds secrets that affect our climate future. Antarctica’s secrets are not in the ice, but in the rocks beneath it.

That’s why producer Gary Hochman, videographers Pat Aylward & Brian Sefferlein, and audio engineer Jim Lenertz made four separate trips to Antarctica to cover the ANDRILL expedition. ANDRILL is the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s (UNL) international geological drilling program investigating Antarctica’s role in climate change.

Video Extras

Photo Gallery

Ice sheet at Barnes Glacier
Mountains with ice sheet
Another view of the ice sheet
Mountain View
ANDRILL cores and scallops through time
ANDRILL core showing evidence of glacial movement
ANDRILL core scallop fossil
ANDRILL core with shell fossils
ANDRILL drill rig aerial at Ross Ice shelf
ANDRILL drill rig at Ross Ice Shelf--View #2
ANDRILL drill rig on McMudro with Mount Erebus in the background
ANDRILL drill rig with flags
ADRILL scientist at core tour
Cracks at Barnes Glacier
Videographer Brian Seifferlein, Audio Engineer Jim Lenertz, and Producer Gary Hochman at Cape Royds
It is cold here
Another view of NET production staff at Cape Royds
A view from Castle Rock
A view from Dry Valleys
Cape Royds
Castle Rock
David Harwood and Fabio Florindo at drill rig platform
David Harwood and Peter Web at drill rig platform
David Harwood examines ANDRILL cores
Driller David Harwood and Peter Web at drill rig platform
Drillers carry out core at ANDRILL drill rig
Scenic view of Dry Valley
Ferrar formation at Taylor Valley in the Dry Valleys
Frank Niessen, Tim Naish, and David Harwood at drill lab
Gary Hochman at Barne Glacier -- Time = midnight
Gary hochman at Hut Point McMurdo
Gerge Browne and Ross Powell examine a core
Ice Falls at Wright Valley in the Dry Valleys
NET Audio Engineer Jim Lenertz
A view from Cape Royds
Jim and Brian at WAIS Divide
NET production staff on the Ross Ice Shelf
Jim and Brian at McMurdo
Labyrinth in Wright Valley
Lake Vanda at Wright Valley
Marco Taviani with ANDRILL core showing a scallop fossil
NOVA crew portrait at Barnes Glacier
Mount Erebus View #1
Mount Erebus View #2
A close up the carter in Mount Erebus
Erebus Ice Tounge
Erebus Ice Tounge and McMurdo Sound
NOVA crew shoots Barnes Glacier
Penguin view
Penguins on the move
Pressure Ridge
Seals at Barnes Glacier
Crack in the Sea Ice
Sun Dog at WAIS Divide
Taylor Valley at Dry Valley
Another core at the ANDRILL drill rig
Tracked vehicle drives to ANDRILL
Two penguins on McMurdo Sound sea ice
Cape Royds penguin colony
Castle Rock panorama
Pressure Ridge panorama
Scenic view from the sea ice
Ice sheet at Barnes Glacier
Mountains with ice sheet
Another view of the ice sheet
Mountain View
ANDRILL cores and scallops through time
ANDRILL core showing evidence of glacial movement
ANDRILL core scallop fossil
ANDRILL core with shell fossils
ANDRILL drill rig aerial at Ross Ice shelf
ANDRILL drill rig at Ross Ice Shelf--View #2
ANDRILL drill rig on McMudro with Mount Erebus in the background
ANDRILL drill rig with flags
ADRILL scientist at core tour
Cracks at Barnes Glacier
Videographer Brian Seifferlein, Audio Engineer Jim Lenertz, and Producer Gary Hochman at Cape Royds
It is cold here
Another view of NET production staff at Cape Royds
A view from Castle Rock
A view from Dry Valleys
Cape Royds
Castle Rock
David Harwood and Fabio Florindo at drill rig platform
David Harwood and Peter Web at drill rig platform
David Harwood examines ANDRILL cores
Driller David Harwood and Peter Web at drill rig platform
Drillers carry out core at ANDRILL drill rig
Scenic view of Dry Valley
Ferrar formation at Taylor Valley in the Dry Valleys
Frank Niessen, Tim Naish, and David Harwood at drill lab
Gary Hochman at Barne Glacier -- Time = midnight
Gary hochman at Hut Point McMurdo
Gerge Browne and Ross Powell examine a core
Ice Falls at Wright Valley in the Dry Valleys
NET Audio Engineer Jim Lenertz
A view from Cape Royds
Jim and Brian at WAIS Divide
NET production staff on the Ross Ice Shelf
Jim and Brian at McMurdo
Labyrinth in Wright Valley
Lake Vanda at Wright Valley
Marco Taviani with ANDRILL core showing a scallop fossil
NOVA crew portrait at Barnes Glacier
Mount Erebus View #1
Mount Erebus View #2
A close up the carter in Mount Erebus
Erebus Ice Tounge
Erebus Ice Tounge and McMurdo Sound
NOVA crew shoots Barnes Glacier
Penguin view
Penguins on the move
Pressure Ridge
Seals at Barnes Glacier
Crack in the Sea Ice
Sun Dog at WAIS Divide
Taylor Valley at Dry Valley
Another core at the ANDRILL drill rig
Tracked vehicle drives to ANDRILL
Two penguins on McMurdo Sound sea ice
Cape Royds penguin colony
Castle Rock panorama
Pressure Ridge panorama
Scenic view from the sea ice



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