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Shad O’Neel releases an ice core onto a make-shift “work station,” during scientific research on the Juneau ice field. (Photo by Elizabeth Jenkins/KTOO)
Out on the glimmering white expanse of the Juneau ice field, a group of students and scientists work an assembly line of sorts.
It begins with Shad O’Neel, a glaciologist with the United States Geological Survey, who twists a metal tube into the snow and ice to take a core sample.
“So you spin it