Little Dome C - Beyond EPICA Oldest Ice Drilling Site (75.29917 °S, 122.44516 °E) – Season 2023/24

Personnel @LDC: Saverio Panichi (ENEA, Camp Leader), Olivier Alemany (CNRS), Philippe Possenti (CNRS), Matthias Hüther (AWI), Gunther Lawer (AWI), Johannes Lemburg (AWI), Andrea Ceinini (ENEA), Federico Scoto (CNR), Tamara Gerber (UCPH), Iben Koldtoft (UCPH), Julien Westhoff (UCPH), James Veale (BAS), and Inès Gay (IPEV)

Personnel @Concordia: Remi Dallmayr (AWI) 

Personnel @MZS: Fortunat Joos (UNIB), Michaela Mühl (UNIB)

Weather at LDC 1 pm: sunny; no more weather data

Despite a few minor problems, we're continuing to work on the drilling shift.

At the same time, the closure of the camp continues, and we have started to tidy up the scientific trench. Having completed the final tests on the 300-meter corer on the F2G platform, we have also started to put this equipment away.

This morning we also sent the last 29 ice core boxes to Concordia. These will be stored in the balloon cave and then loaded onto a cold flight to MZS on January 19.

As processing has finished, we are also continuing to reduce the number of people in camp, with Rémi Dallmayr leaving for Concordia.