Okay, I am, I am getting into my snow suit. It is August in Colorado, but this is necessary.

Hey there, Mike and I are still on vacation, but we're sending postcards to each other and today I'm somewhere I didn't even

know existed. It's the National Ice Corps Lab in Colorado, the National Science Foundation funds this place. And you've probably heard of scientists drilling ice cores for research. Those cores are stored here.

Mostly they're cores that are drilled in Antarctica and Greenland.

Some of them are 2,000 or 3,000 meters deep

and they can go back as far as 850,000 years in the past.

They store a lot of information primarily about what our climate has been like and how it's changed over the past 850,000 years and so it goes back in time

The assistant curator Richard Nunn is showing me around the back room is actually minus 40 degrees. That's both

Fahrenheit and Celsius. Wow. So we try and offer gear for everybody to use to make

sure they stay warm and safe. I have to ask you about something else that I saw in this kind of

staging area up upon time there's lockers I guess for the people here. Up on top of

those there's a rubber made cooler that says post-emputation kit when I first started working here I saw

that it says amputation kit and I of course like everybody said what's that for

and it's in case we work with a lot of saws in here when we're cutting the ice

up so in case somebody just happens

to amputate their own finger, we can put it on ice and get them to the hospital. So when they

explain that to me, I said, oh, so it's not really an amputation kit.

It's sort of after you've amputated something so we can get you taken care of.

So I added the word post to it a few years back.

I mean I guess if you're going to be somewhere where there are possible imputations and you do want

to put stuff on ice this is the place to be.

That is very correct. We have no shortage of ice in terms of keeping somebody's

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