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1/4 Rapid Access Ice Drill: "almost certainly will discover something new"

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson
Published January 4, 2016 at 12:49 PM CST
John Goodge, UMD

The Rapid Access Ice Drill (or RAID) is on its way to Antarctica.

And when it's in place and online in about a year, well, there's no other way to put it: it will boldly go where no one has gone before.

Current technology allows ice core samples to be taken dating back about 750 million years.  John Goodge, the co-leader of the research and an Earth and Environmental Sciences Professor at UMD, says the RAID will allow million to million and a half year old samples to be taken -- and what they will discover will be a key part in understanding climate change.
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Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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