Geology Professor Doug Clark is working, along with colleagues from the UW and a number of Canadian universities, to conduct climate-change reasearch atop B.C.'s Mount Waddington. Clark spent part of the summer of 2007 doing research using ice coring and ground-penetrating radar on a broad, flat expanse of ice called the Combatant Col; the ice, nearly 600 feet thick, holds climate data for the past 1,000 years. This summer, Clark hopes to return and retrieve a sample core from the surface to the bedrock beneath.
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