All mirth aside, my bustling toy workshop has started to sink just a bit on the south-eastern corner: the solid foundation – rock ice, through and through – feels a bit slushy now, if you stick your boot in it.
"It really weakens the foundation of ICE's argument for why they were saying that she needs to be removed from the United States, and we hope this will weigh strongly in their consideration," Katz said.
— Jeff Gordinier Poetry Foundation: "The Ice-Cream Man," a heartbreaker of a poem from Michael Longley, one of the literary lions of Northern Ireland.
The focus was on thaw of near-surface permafrost (<15 m depth) owing to its central role for infrastructure (defined here as facilities with permanent foundations on ice-free land) hazards1,8,9,13,14.
Now all the foundation needs is ice.
International partnerships of CRREL with the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (1966), and the University of Bern, Switzerland (1962), established the foundation of polar ice core science.
"If frost forms, it actually aggravates the problem," Varanasi says, because it provides a kind of foundation on which ice quickly can build up to form a thick layer.
South of the smokehouse is the brick foundation of an ice house measuring about 15 by and topped by modern wooden pergola and patio structures.
"In Byram Hills, the foundation provides the icing on the cake," Mrs. Nadel said.
The grounds contain a smokehouse, a water well and the foundations of an ice house and a summer kitchen.
