7th International Workshop on Ice Drilling Technology

Resources

Download SECOND CIRCULAR (April 2013)

Download WORKSHOP HANDOUT/ABSTRACT BOOKLET (600 KB; PDF format)

Download LOCAL AREA MAPS/DIRECTIONS

Schedule

Below you will find the program/schedule/agenda for the workshop as well as the posters that will be presented at the workshop.

You can also DOWNLOAD THE HANDOUT AND ABSTRACT BOOKLET (PDF format; 600 KB) for the workshop. The handout/abstract booklet also contains the program shown below. Hardcopies of the handout will also be provided at the workshop.

Program

Posters

Theme

Following in the footsteps of the six previous ice drilling technology workshops held between 1974 and 2006, the Seventh International Workshop on Ice Drilling Technology will take a comprehensive look at the latest innovations in ice drilling technology, including ice coring, borehole logging, subglacial sampling, core logging and handling, and field logistics. The workshop falls in a time between the successful completion of several technologically innovative deep (NEEM and WAIS Divide) and intermediate depth (Talos Dome and James Ross Island) drilling programs, and several new innovative ice drilling endeavors (Subglacial Lake Ellsworth, Subglacial Lake Whillans, Subglacial Lake Vostok, Roosevelt Island, South Pole 1500m Ice Core, Aurora Basin, Renland Ice Cap project, Dome A). The ice drilling community has continued to grow, and great technological advancements have been made since the last ice drilling technology workshop in 2006. Despite this, there are still numerous challenges that face the ice drilling community, such as fast access drilling, subglacial bedrock drilling, contamination free sampling of subglacial water, in situ probes, and the identification of the next-generation of drill fluids. The workshop will promote the exchange of knowledge, ideas, and experience among many countries and individuals who are involved in ice drilling projects. People active in the technical side of ice drilling are especially encouraged to participate, as are technical representatives from nations who have recently begun ice drilling programs for the first time.

Workshop topics will potentially include:

• Shallow ice drilling
• Intermediate depth ice drilling
• Deep ice drilling
• High altitude drilling
• Ice drilling in complicated conditions (warm ice, water-saturated firn/ice)
• Hot water and rapid access drilling
• Thermal drilling
• In situ probes
• Special aspects of ice drilling technology (control systems, surface and auxiliary equipment, drill cables, manufacturing of parts, safety)
• Directional drilling and replicate sampling
• Subglacial sampling (water, sediment, bedrock)
• Penetration into subglacial lakes
• Emerging technologies
• New challenges and innovative answers to old challenges
• Ice drill and bore-hole recovery systems
• Drilling fluids
• Bore-hole logging
• Ice core handling and quality control
• Logistics and drill camp operations
• Lessons learned through important failures
• (Future) ice drilling projects

Sessions

The workshop will begin Monday evening with registration and an icebreaker. The main form of presentations will be oral sessions (approx. 20 min per talk) during the day on Tuesday through Friday. On Tuesday, from 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm, there will be a dedicated poster session. The posters will be displayed in their own room near the meeting room, and may remain on display for the duration of the conference. On Wednesday afternoon there will be an optional field trip.

Abstracts

Participants wishing to give an oral presentation and/or present a poster are required to submit an abstract. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 30 June 2013. A program containing all of the submitted abstracts will be provided to all workshop participants. In order for your abstract to be included in the program handout it must be submitted by the deadline. All abstracts must be submitted by using the online form located at:
* THE ABSTRACT SUBMISSION PERIOD IS NOW OVER. *

For questions, contact Joseph Souney at joseph.souney@unh.edu.

Posters

If you wish to present a poster you must submit an abstract by the abstract deadline (see ABSTRACTS above for details). Poster boards are PORTRAIT format. Please aim for PORTRAIT A0 editing and printing, i.e. 85 cm width and 120 cm height. We will NOT be able to accommodate Landscape posters. Also, posters must be printed before arriving at the workshop. There will be no A0 printing facility available for use at the workshop.

Registration

The registration fee for the workshop is $225 US dollars (USD). The registration fee covers the icebreaker, daily morning/afternoon coffee/snacks and luncheons, the mid-week field trip, and the workshop banquet. Lodging is not included in the registration fee (see ACCOMMODATION below).

If you will have accompanying persons with you, they can attend the icebreaker, the mid-week field trip, and the workshop banquet for an additional fee of $66 USD each.

The deadline for registration is 30 June 2013.

All registrations must be made through the workshop's online registration form at:
* THE REGISTRATION PERIOD IS NOW OVER AND REGISTRATION IS CLOSED. *

For questions, contact Joseph Souney at joseph.souney@unh.edu.

Venue and Location

The workshop will be held at the Pyle Center on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, Madison (UW-Madison). The workshop will be on the third floor of the Pyle Center. The UW-Madison campus is a 20-minute drive from Madison's Dane County Regional Airport (MSN). There are ample cabs/taxis waiting at the airport that participants can use to travel to their choice of accommodation (see ACCOMMODATION below).

Madison, the capital of Wisconsin, is located in south-central Wisconsin, 77 miles (124 km) west of Milwaukee and 122 miles (196 km) northwest of Chicago. The city is sometimes described as The City of Four Lakes, comprising the four successive lakes of the Yahara River: Lake Mendota ("Fourth Lake"), Lake Monona ("Third Lake"), Lake Waubesa ("Second Lake") and Lake Kegonsa ("First Lake"), although Waubesa and Kegonsa are not actually in Madison, but just south of it. Madison has a population of roughly 237,000. Early September is characterized by occasional precipitation and an average daily high and low temperature of roughly 23°C (74°F) and 12°C (53°F), respectively.

Accommodation

Workshop participants must make their own hotel reservations. Rooms have been held at the following hotels. They are available on a first-come, first-served basis and workshop participants need to make their own reservations. Please note that the deadline for reserving a room is hotel specific. For reference, the workshop itself is being held at the Pyle Center on Langdon Street in the heart of the UW-Madison Campus. The UW-Madison Campus is a 20-minute drive from Madison's Dane County Regional Airport (MSN). There are ample cabs/taxis waiting at the airport that participants can use to travel to their choice of accommodation (usually < $30 cab fare). Many of the hotels below also offer free shuttles to and from the airport.

For maps of the UW-Madison Campus, Downtown Madison or the larger surrounding area, click here: Maps.

If you experience any difficulties reserving a hotel room at any of the hotels listed below, please contact Tony Wendricks for assistance.

Lowell Center Inn & Conference Center

610 Langdon St, Madison, WI 53703

Thirty-seven rooms have been held at the Lowell Center. The hotel is 0.1 miles from the Pyle Center and includes a free breakfast. On-site parking is available to overnight hotel guests (one space per room) in The Lowell Center ramp for $8 per day. Complimentary parking is also available at a nearby parking facility.

• If calling to make a reservation, call 866.301.1753 and refer to group code: ICEDRILL
• To make a reservation online, visit http://bit.ly/icedrill07sept2
• Deadline for reservations is 10 August 2013.

Best Western Plus InnTowner Hotel and the Highland Club

2424 University Ave, Madison, WI 53726

Fifteen rooms have been held at the Best Western InnTowner. While the InnTowner is located 2 miles from the Pyle Center, the hotel has a free shuttle service that will take you anywhere within a 5 mile radius as well as the airport. The InnTowner also includes a free breakfast and has free parking for those who wish to rent a car.

• If calling to make a reservation, call 800.258.8321 and refer to group code: UWSSE13
• To make a reservation online, visit http://www.inntowner.com/ and click the FIND A ROOM button. Enter UWSSE13 in the Group Booking Code field and proceed with your reservation details.
• Deadline for reservations is 1 August 2013.

DoubleTree by Hilton

525 West Johnson Street, Madison, Wisconsin, 53703

Ten rooms have been reserved at the DoubleTree by Hilton. The hotel is 1 mile from the Pyle Center.

• If calling to make a reservation, call 608.251.5511 and refer to group code:
  UW Space Science Ice Drilling Tech Workshop
• To make a reservation online, visit http://doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/groups/personalized/M/MSNDTDT-IDW-20130907/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG
• Deadline for reservations is 8 August 2013.

Best Western Plus Inn on the Park

22 South Carroll Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53703

Fifteen rooms have been reserved at the Best Western Inn on the Park. The hotel is 1.2 miles from the Pyle Center. The hotel has a free shuttle service that will take you anywhere within a 5 mile radius as well as the airport, and also free parking for those who wish to rent a car.

• If calling to make a reservation, call 608.285.8000 and refer to the group code: Ice Drillers Tech Workshop
• Online reservations (http://www.innonthepark.net/) currently do not appear to accept the group code. However, workshop participants can send an email to reservations@innonthepark.net and refer to group code: Ice Drillers Tech Workshop

Reception

There will be an evening icebreaker reception held on the rooftop terrace of the Lowell Center on Monday, 9 September. Light refreshments will be served while we enjoy the spectacular views of Lake Mendota.

Mid-Week Field Trip

Wisconsin is home to the Ice Age National Scenic Trail and on Wednesday (11 September) afternoon we will have a guided tour of short segments of the trail led by Emeritus Prof. Dave Mickelson, co-author of Geology of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail. We will see the terminal moraine, pro-glacial lake beds, ice-marginal drainage, a sub-marginal chute, tunnel channel, drumlins and the unglaciated Driftless Area -- all in a few hours and perhaps ending with a Glacial Trail Ale! There is no extra charge to participate in the field trip, and lunch and transportation will be provided.

Banquet

The banquet will be held on Thursday evening in the Tripp Commons room of the Memorial Union (UW-Madison campus) from 6-9 PM.

Annals of Glaciology

The Council of the International Glaciological Society (IGS) has decided to publish a thematic issue of the Annals of Glaciology on topics consistent with the workshop themes. The issue will be part of volume 55 and the issue number will be 68. Submissions to this issue will not be contingent on presentation at the workshop, and material presented at the workshop is not necessarily affirmed as being suitable for consideration for this issue of the Annals. Participants are encouraged, however, to submit manuscripts for this Annals volume. The deadline for receiving Annals papers is 30 April 2014. Papers will be available online as soon as they are processed by IGS, thus early submission is encouraged after 1 March 2013. Full page charges will apply to finance the production of the volume.

Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline: 30 June 2013
Registration deadline: 30 June 2013
Icebreaker: 9 September 2013 (in the evening)
Conference begins: 10 September 2013
Annals of Glaciology paper submission deadline: 30 April 2014

Committees

Local Organizing Committee

Mary Albert, Co-Chair (Dartmouth College, USA) Mary.R.Albert@dartmouth.edu
Charlie Bentley, Co-Chair (University of Wisconsin, USA) bentley@geology.wisc.edu
Frank Wilhelms, Co-Chair (Alfred-Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven) frank.wilhelms@awi.de
Joseph Souney (University of New Hampshire, USA) joseph.souney@unh.edu
Mark Twickler (University of New Hampshire, USA) mark.twickler@unh.edu
Tony Wendricks (University of Wisconsin, USA) tonyw@ssec.wisc.edu

Program Committee

Frank Wilhelms, Chair (Alfred-Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven)
Olivier Alemany (Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l´Environnement, France)
Pavel Talalay (Jilin University, China)
Steffen Bo Hansen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Jay Johnson (University of Wisconsin, USA)
Jakob Schwander (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Nobuhiko Azuma (Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan)
Alex Pyne (Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand)
Victor Zagorodnov (Ohio State University, USA)
Jørgen Peder Steffensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Vin Morgan (Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, Australia)

Annals of Glaciology Editorial Committee

Frank Wilhelms, Chief Editor (Alfred-Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven)
Charlie Bentley (University of Wisconsin, USA)
Joan Fitzpatrick (US Geological Survey, USA)
Nobuhiko Azuma (Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan)
Pavel Talalay (Jilin University, China)
Jakob Schwander (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Alex Pyne (Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand)
Rob Mulvaney (British Antarctic Survey, UK)
Alan Elcheikh (Australian Antarctic Division, Australia)
Trevor Popp (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)