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Utah Public Radio Monday, Jul. 20, 2026
Emmy-winning documentary features USU research beneath Greenland's ice
"The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice" follows the story of Camp Century, a Cold War military base built beneath the Greenland ice sheet. Before the base was abandoned, researchers drilled 1.3 kilometers through the ice and continued drilling into the sediment below.
Tammy Rittenour is a professor at Utah State University and director of the USU Luminescence Laboratory. She and her lab are featured in the documentary, though their role in it is a bit different than others.
“What I worked on wasn’t actually the ice. It was the sediments underneath the ice, which is what makes it unique," Rittenour said.