We want to bring your attention to the updated Draft Long Range Science Plan for ice coring and drilling produced by IDPO and the Science Advisory Board (SAB). We are making this Draft available on our web site (see link below) to solicit community input on the Long Range Science Plan for the ice coring and drilling community. This document is meant to be the forward planning path for our sciences. We encourage everyone to review the document and send comments, questions, additions, etc to icedrill@dartmouth.edu. This is your chance to have your say about the future of ice drilling science. On June 1, 2010 we will incorporate the information we receive and produce the final 2010 Long Range Science Plan. This plan will be revisited and revised as appropriate each spring. We thank you in advance for your input. http://icedrill.org/index.shtml#scienceplan

News from the Ice Drilling Program Office:

The NSF Antarctic Research (Solicitation 10-543) proposal deadline is May 25, 2010.

As a reminder, if your proposal requires any kind of ice drilling or ice coring support from the IDPO/Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO) you need to download the Field Project Requirement Form (www.icedrill.org/scientists/scientists.shtml) and submit it to IDPO/IDDO via icedrill@dartmouth.edu no later than April 13, 2010.

Once the IDPO/IDDO receives your Field Project Requirement Form we will provide you with a cost estimate and a letter of support that MUST be included with your NSF proposal. You should also notify your relevant NSF Program Manager that your proposal requires support from the IDPO/IDDO.

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NSF Antarctic Research Solicitation:
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?WT.z_pims_id=5519&ods_key=nsf10543

Field Project Requirement Form:
www.icedrill.org/scientists/scientists.shtml

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CH2M HILL Polar Services (CPS) is offering a field safety training course to National Science Foundation (NSF) -funded arctic researchers. The course will take place in Colorado, 30 March - 2 April 2010, and will be facilitated by Learn to Return (LTR) Training Systems (http://www.survivaltraining.com). The course will cover wilderness medicine training, helicopter and bear safety training, and field skills specific to working in arctic areas.

This course is open to 20 NSF-funded arctic researchers. This includes principal investigators, graduate students, research assistants, and undergraduate field assistants. The course is free of charge for all qualified researchers. Travel assistance and per diem is available for participants outside the local area of the course. CPS can only accept attendees whose schedules allow them to attend all days of the course. CPS will provide travel and accommodations for course participants only, and will not arrange accommodations for partners and/or families or provide assistance with personal travel in conjunction with the course.

Interested principal investigators should contact Angela Pagenkopp at: angela@polarfield.com. The email should include their name, affiliation, email, current NSF grant number, and the names of those who will accompany the investigator.

For further information, please go to:
http://www.polar.ch2m.com/

Or contact:
Angela Pagenkopp
Email: angela@polarfield.com

The WAIS Divide Science Coordination Office is now accepting applications for Science Technician positions during the 2010/2011 Antarctic field season (~November 1 to ~ February 5) who will be responsible for logging and packing the ice core.

Antarctic drilling project aims for a definitive record of climate

New SCAR report shows continent undergoing major changes

What is science telling us about climate change? Leading climate change experts discuss one of the most complex scientific puzzles ever to confront humankind.

UW-Madison group serves as one-stop shop for coring and cutting ice

On 5 November 2009, Dr. Karl Erb, Director of the Office of Polar Programs, announced the appointment of Mr. Will Colston as the Director of the Antarctic Infrastructure and Logistics Division (AIL), effective November 8, 2009.

Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that Dr. Alexandra Isern has been appointed as the new Program Director for Antarctic Earth Sciences in the Division of Antarctic Sciences of the Office of Polar Programs.

Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that Mr. Brian W. Stone has been appointed to the Career Senior Executive Service of the U. S. Government as Deputy Division Director of the Division of Antarctic Infrastructure and Logistics (AIL) within the Office of Polar Programs (OPP).

Climate record from last 2.5 million years may sit at the surface of Allan Hills

Special instrument provides complementary information to ice core records

Aerial survey to help determine ice loss in West Antarctic region. Three years ago, Ian Joughin found himself bobbing up and down in a dinghy on a glacial lake in Greenland to learn more about the subglacial plumbing of the ice sheet. About 10 days later, the lake drained away into a crack with a force greater than Niagara Falls - in about 90 minutes.

Overland exploration of East Antarctica collects data for last thousand years of climate. The 12 scientists and support staff who made a slow crawl across a vast, blank stretch of East Antarctica this past austral summer for three months to study how regional climate variability relates to global climate change expected to encounter brutally cold storms and other challenges on the high polar plateau.

Measurements made from the largest Greenland ice sample ever analyzed have confirmed that an unusual rise in atmospheric methane levels about 12,000 years ago was not the result of a catastrophic release of seafloor "hydrate deposits," as some scientists had feared.

In conjunction with landmark Antarctic Treaty meeting, art exhibit, interactive events, unique film screening and multimedia presentations with polar researchers at the Maryland Science Center

Cooperative agreements signed with teams from the University of Wisconsin, Dartmouth College, University of New Hampshire are vital to climate studies

Project continues major effort to recover high-resolution climate record of last 100,000 years

Antarctic ice core to improve greenhouse gas climate record

WAIS Divide project searches for life in the ice

ITASE data used to link El Nino and West Antarctic climate

Researchers will use aircraft and seismic studies to "image" an ice-buried mountain range the size of the Alps

Ice core and ocean deposit comparisons show complex links between carbon dioxide levels, ocean currents and climate; may help explain past, present and future climate trends