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This woman wrote Ice Memory.
Who is Elizabeth Kolbert?
This country is the main setting for Ice Memory.
What is Greenland?
This short ice age led to the demise of the Greenland Norse.
What is the Little Ice Age?
The name of the project Ice Core worked on in North Greenland.
What is North GRIP?
Exiled from Iceland for killing people.
Who is Erik the Red?
This cold-war era research station hosted the US Army Corps of Engineers.
What is Camp Century?
This group of Europeans was the first to settle Greenland.
Who are the Norse?
This percentage of Greenland is covered by ice.
What is eighty percent?
Of the fifty six thousand inhabitants, Greenland is mostly populated by this people group.
Who are the Inuit?
The majority of Greenland is located about this line of latitude.
What is the Arctic Circle?
In this decade, the first ice core was drilled at the US military installation, Camp Century.
What is the mid-1960s (or 60's)?
This percentage of the earth's fresh water is trapped in Greenlands glaciers.
What is eight percent?
This Icelandic man commented that "The word 'stuck' is not in our vocabulary," followed by a nervous giggle.
Who is Thorsteinn Thorsteinnsson?
This road is made up of hundreds of miles of ice sheets.
What is the Volkswagon Road?
The validation of this instance was the driving purpose behind North GRIP.
What is Event One?
What is the New Yorker?
This person said "We are in a state now where the more we know, the more it becomes clear how little we really understand about the system."
Who is Jochem Marotzke?
This is the only way to leave or enter North GRIP.
What is Kangerlussuaq?
The earth is in this current warm period.
What is the Holocene?
The age of the ice at the bottom of Greenland's ice sheet is approximately this many years old.
What is over a hundred thousand years?