Oldest gas
Name of applicant
Thomas Blunier
Title
Professor
Institution
University of Copenhagen
Amount
DKK 100,000
Year
2023
Type of grant
Field Trips / Research Stays < 100,000
Summary
The Australian Antarctic Division in Hobart and the University of Copenhagen are both involved in ice core drilling projects aiming at obtaining million-year-old ice from Antarctica with a main goal of reconstructing the past atmospheric CO2 concentration. The research stay of Prof Thomas Blunier in Hobart aims at freshening up the long lasting collaboration of Denmark with the Australian Antarctic Division both on the technical and scientific level focusing on trace gas measurements.