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National Ice Core Laboratory
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Denver, Colorado - The entrance to the "exam room" where ice cores are cut and studied, at the National Ice Core Laboratory. The exam room is kept at -24 degrees C (-11 degrees F), and the ice storage room beyond is held at -36 degrees C (-33 degrees F). The lab stores 19,000 meters of ice cores from Antarctica, Greenland, and North America, and makes them available to scientists studying climate change and other issues. The lab is part of the U.S. Geological Survey, funded by the National Science Foundation.
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