1. Summer Sea Ice 2003 Current Arctic Research by Faculty of the Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada Ice-core studies Luminescence sediment-dating studies ( for climate-history studies)

2. Developing an optical scanning and digital image-analysis system for ice cores. at SUB-MILLIMETER precision. permits any researcher to examine a core as if it were in pristine-recovery conditions. permits collaborative interpretation. Ken McGwire, Ken Taylor, Desert Research Institute + National Ice Core Laboratory, USGS, Denver, CO & Richard Alley, Pennsylvania State University Digital Imaging of Ice Cores Atmospheric Input of Fe and P to the Arctic over the Past Century, as Recorded in the Greenland Ice Cores Ross Edwards, Desert Research Institute Reconstructing high temporal resolution records of bio-available Iron, Phosphorous and PH from Greenlandic ice cores

3. USCG ‘Healy’ (red track) 2005 US-Sweden Trans-Ocean Expedition Glenn Berger, Desert Research Institute Swedish ‘Oden’