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Desert Research Institute

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Researcher Derek Pickell admiring a backlit snowpit showing the layers of snow that compress into the Greenland ice sheet. These layers, which build up year after year and can be read back in time like tree rings, provide valuable information about past environmental processes such pollution, volcanism, and forest fires.

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Nathan Chellman

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