What is BE-OI?

In Antarctica internationally leading ice and climate scientists of 14 institutions from ten European countries are looking for the oldest ice-core record on Earth. Goal of the project "Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice" is to find the ice core which goes furthest back in Earth’s history ...

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BE-OI Publications

# 1: Geothermal heat flux and basal melt rate in the Dome C region...   
# 2: Is there 1.5 million-year old ice near Dome C...  
# 3: Accumulation patterns around Dome C in the last 73 kyrs  
# 4: Brief communication: Canditate sites of 1.5 Myr old ice...  
# 5: Glaciological characteristics in the Dome Fuji region...  
# 6: Promising Oldest Ice sites in East Antarctica...

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Joint special issue in EGU Journals

Call for papers in joint special issue on
Oldest Ice: finding and interpreting climate proxies in ice older than 700,000 years
of the EGU Journals "The Cryosphere" and "Climate of the Past"

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"Drilling for the oldest ice"

Short briefing in Nature Geoscience News&Views

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Project Themes

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BE-OI

BE-OI has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 730258.