They know the drill: UW leads the league in boring through ice sheets
Thursday, October 30, 2014 - 15:00
in Earth & Climate
Wisconsin is famous for its ice fishers—the stalwarts who drill holes through lake ice in the hope of catching a winter dinner. Less well known are the state's big-league ice drillers—specialists who design huge drills and use them to drill deep into ice in Greenland and Antarctica, places where even summer seems like winter.