Ancient mud drilled from Antarctic ice holds clues to future sea-level rise

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"What goes on in Antarctica doesn't stay in Antarctica, it has global implications," Geology tauira Natalie-Jane Reid says. Reid is one of two Otago Ph.D. candidates who contributed to an Antarctic sediment core workshop at the Otago Repository for Core Analysis (ORCA) held during the first two weeks of June. The pair joined 30 top scientists who split, scanned, described and analyzed 228 meters (748 feet) of ancient mud and rock retrieved from under the ice sheet at Crary Ice Rise in Antarctica's Ross Sea.