News Story - Scientists take part in BBC expedition ‘Operation
Iceberg’ Date: 17 Jul 2012 This summer two British Antarctic
Survey (BAS) scientists head to the Arctic to take part in the
BBC expedition ‘Operation Iceberg’. Oceanographers Dr Keith
Nicholls and Dr Povl Abrahamsen will join the BBC team on the
ice near Baffin Island as they make a two-part series for BBC2.
The programmes will explore ice and how it behaves, both as a
glacier flowing toward the sea, and then after it breaks off
into an iceberg. The filming team will interview the BAS
scientists for programme two which is based on and around an
iceberg as they conduct experiments to better understand how it
interacts with the ocean beneath. Dr Nicholls and Dr Abrahamsen
will take part in two studies whilst they camp out on in tents
on the iceberg. The first will be to drill a hole through 80
metres of ice using a technique called hot water drilling,
frequently used in Antarctica. Once the hole is drilled, a probe
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