Glaciology Take a look through some of our equipment
Icefield Instruments Inc. In Antarctica
Our most recent contract took us to Antarctica where we were able to successfully drill to 210 meters in 14 days.
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Training On the Kaskawulsh Glacier
A University of Calgary student was trained using the ECLIPSE ice drill by the Icefield Instruments Inc. team. They were able to drill two holes near Mount Logan.
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World's Oldest Ice Found With ECLIPSE Drill
Using Icefield Instruments Ice Coring Drill, researchers were able to recover the world's oldest ice chunk. Dated at 2.7 million years old, it is considerably older than the previous record holder of 1 million years found in 2015.
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Drilling 150m in 7 days
After training with us (near Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada), a team using the ECLIPSE ice drill travelled to Antarctica where they were able to drill to a depth of 150 meters in 7 days.
The ECLIPSE Ice Coring Drill
The ECLIPSE ice coring drill is a modified version of the Danish intermediate-depth tipping-tower drill designed at the University of Copenhagen. This drill is intended for drilling dry holes to depths of up to 350m.
Ice Penetrating Radar Systems
Icefield Instruments Inc. manufactures pulse radar transmitters based on the Narod transmitter (Narod, 1994). This transmitter is very small and portable, consumes little power, yet is capable of measuring ice thicknesses of 300m (temperate ice) to 800m (cold ice).
Contract Ice Core Drilling
Services and on-site training for intermediate depth drilling (0-350m) at any location.
Consulting Services
Icefield Instruments Inc. can provide a wide variety of consulting services related to glaciology and hydrology.
Portable ECM Unit
The handheld digital ECM unit operates from an internal battery and records conductivity data digitally in non-volatile memory. A USB-serial converter is supplied for use with computers lacking a serial port.
Borehole Inclinometers
For borehole survey equipment, please contact our sister company Icefield Tools Corp.. The magnetically-oriented electronic borehole survey instruments manufactured by ITC are fully compatible with glaciological applications. ITC can both rent and sell tools.