News
Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions
The NSF Ice Drilling Program (IDP) will hold the AGU Town Hall on Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions on Wednesday, 11 December 2024, from 18:00 - 19:00 Eastern Standard Time (EST) in 202 A (Convention Center). We hope to see you there!
Abstract: Ice sheets, glaciers, and the underlying bedrock, sediment and permafrost hold crucial evidence of past climate, ice sheet dynamics, and cratonic geology. National and international collaboration for drilling in the remote Polar Regions requires strategic coordination between science, technology, and logistics. This meeting will provide the research community with brief updates from IDP, ICECReW, COLDEX, GreenDrill, Hercules Dome, and RAID. Opportunities for community involvement will be showcased, and input from the audience will be solicited.
Date: Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Time: 18:00 - 19:00 Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Location: 202 A (Convention Center)
Moderator: Mary R Albert, Dartmouth College
AGU meeting website: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/meetingapp.cgi/Session/227487
IDP Englacial and Subglacial Access Working Group Workshop
The Englacial and Subglacial Access Working Group (ESAWG) of the NSF Ice Drilling Program (IDP) will hold a meeting to initiate U.S. long-term science planning for subglacial science on Sunday, December 8, from 8:00-5:00 at the Residence Inn Alexandria Old Town/Duke Street, Alexandria VA. Building on past IDP-SAWG white papers, the research community is invited to participate and contribute to discussions in this workshop aimed at creating goals for U.S. subglacial science for the coming decade, with a special focus on targets for the International Polar Year (IPY; 2032-33). The outcome of the meeting will be drafts for a new set of white papers focused on future drilling locations, technology, and science requirements. The targets discussed in this meeting and these white papers will be added to the IDP Long Range Science Plan 2025-2035.
Please register for the workshop before November 30 with an indication of any ‘pitch’ you would like to make for future science. Registration is free but we need a head count to finalize arrangements for the meeting.
Further details, the meeting agenda, and updates will be sent to registrants.
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Date: December 8, 2024
Venue: Residence Inn Alexandria | Old Town/Duke Street
Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc868iU3zaCuGKis1fNDfr0rYx_-jrUvX8GGim68yZCzAJ72g/viewform
Registration Deadline: November 30, 2024
Cost: Registration is free but we need a head count to finalize arrangements for the meeting.
Workshop Website: https://icedrill.org/meetings/esawg-workshop-2024
(Reminder) Call for Nominations: Ice Core Working Group of the NSF Ice Drilling Program
The Ice Core Working Group (ICWG) of the U.S. National Science Foundation Ice Drilling program (IDP) invites nominations, including self-nominations, from the U.S. scientific community to fill one open position on the ICWG. The ICWG aims to have diverse representation from a range of scientific expertise and career stages. The ICWG currently seeks to replace expertise in gases in ice cores. Nominees must be U.S.-based scientists whose science relies on the analysis of ice or firn cores. The ICWG is one of two working groups of the IDP Science Advisory Board (SAB). The primary purpose of the ICWG is to provide advice and input on scientific issues pertaining to ice cores to the SAB and to the IDP. ICWG members typically serve for five years, participate in the annual ICWG meeting (which will usually be online, with an in-person meeting in 2026), and collaborate remotely throughout the year as needed.
** Please send nominations and expressions of interest, along with relevant supporting material, to IceDrill@Dartmouth.edu by November 10, 2024. **
Call for Nominations: Ice Core Working Group of the NSF Ice Drilling Program
The Ice Core Working Group (ICWG) of the U.S. National Science Foundation Ice Drilling program (IDP) invites nominations, including self-nominations, from the U.S. scientific community to fill one open position on the ICWG. The ICWG aims to have diverse representation from a range of scientific expertise and career stages. The ICWG currently seeks to replace expertise in gases in ice cores. Nominees must be U.S.-based scientists whose science relies on the analysis of ice or firn cores. The ICWG is one of two working groups of the IDP Science Advisory Board (SAB). The primary purpose of the ICWG is to provide advice and input on scientific issues pertaining to ice cores to the SAB and to the IDP. ICWG members typically serve for five years, participate in the annual ICWG meeting (which will usually be online, with an in-person meeting in 2026), and collaborate remotely throughout the year as needed.
** Please send nominations and expressions of interest, along with relevant supporting material, to IceDrill@Dartmouth.edu by November 10, 2024. **
Summer 2024 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available
The Summer 2024 quarterly update of U.S. Ice Drilling Program (IDP) activities is now available at: https://icedrill.org/icebits/2024-summer
Topics:
- IDP Supports a Busy Arctic Season
- IDP Receives NSF Award to Continue Operations
- Indigenous Climate Exchange - Traditional Ecological Knowledge (ICE TEK)
- 2024-2034 Long Range Science and Long Range Drilling Technology Plans Updated
- Portal to Ice Drilling Technology Documents
- Acknowledgment of IDP in Publications
- Stay Connected with IDP
To view the newsletter, please go to:
https://icedrill.org/icebits/2024-summer
2024 Long Range Science Plan and Long Range Drilling Technology Plan Now Available
The purpose of the plans is to articulate goals and make recommendations for the direction for U.S. ice coring and drilling science, and for the development of drilling technology, infrastructure, and logistical support needed to enable the science.
Spring 2024 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available
The Spring 2024 quarterly update of U.S. Ice Drilling Program (IDP) activities is now available at: https://icedrill.org/icebits/2024-spring
Topics:
- New 700 Drill System Ready for Action
- IDP Education and Outreach Climate of HOPE Conference for Teachers
- All Episodes Now Available - Sea Level Rise and Thwaites Glacier: Vital Signs of the Doomsday Glacier
- 2024 Spring/Summer Fieldwork
- Science Advisory Board 2024 Meeting
- Ice Core Working Group 2024 Meeting
- 2nd RAID Science Planning Workshop
- Stay Connected with IDP
- Ice Drilling Support for NSF Polar Proposals
To view the newsletter, please go to:
https://icedrill.org/icebits/2024-spring
Request for Community Input — DRAFT 2024 Long Range Science Plan
Each year in the spring, the Ice Drilling Program (IDP) works with its Science Advisory Board and the research community to update the Long Range Science Plan. This Plan identifies the science in the coming decade that will require the use of ice drilling technology and expertise for the community. This also drives the formation of other plans, for example, the Long Range Drilling Technology Plan. The plans provide the basis for multi‐annual planning for the actions and drill development projects of IDP and others, and the plans give the funding agencies advance notice of upcoming community science needs.
If you need an ice core or a hole drilled in a glacier or ice sheet in the coming decade or a rock core from under shallow glacial ice, please make sure that the high‐level articulation of your science is captured in the current draft update of the Long Range Science Plan!
Please read through the draft Long Range Science Plan and send corrections, updates, or additions to Icedrill@Dartmouth.edu at your earliest convenience but not later than May 25, 2024. When sending corrections/updates, please also reference the appropriate line number in the draft Long Range Science Plan where the correction/update is needed.
Submission deadline: May 25, 2024
To download the working draft, visit: https://icedrill.org/long-range-science-plan
Winter 2023-2024 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available
The Winter 2023-2024 quarterly update of U.S. Ice Drilling Program (IDP) activities is now available at: https://icedrill.org/icebits/2023-2024-winter
Topics:
- IDP Completes Support of 2023-2024 Antarctic Field Season
- Drill Development and Maintenance/Upgrade News
- 700 Drill
- BASE (Basal Access and Subglacial Exploration) Drill
- ASIG (Agile Sub-Ice Geological) Drill
- Winkie Drill
- Foro 400 Drill
- IDP Education and Public Outreach Workshops Increase Impact
- New Virtual Field Lab: Sea Level Rise and Thwaites Glacier: Vital Signs of the Doomsday Glacier
- IDP Hosts Successful Town Hall at 2023 AGU Fall Meeting
- Stay Connected with IDP
- Ice Drilling Support for NSF Polar Proposals
To view the newsletter, please go to:
https://icedrill.org/icebits/2023-2024-winter
Fall 2023 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available
The Fall 2023 quarterly update of U.S. Ice Drilling Program (IDP) activities is now available at:
https://icedrill.org/icebits/2023-fall
Topics:
- Field Support to Antarctic 2023-2024 Projects
- Drill Development and Maintenance/Upgrade News
- AGU Town Hall: Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions
- Englacial and Subglacial Access Working Group (ESAWG)
- IDP at the 2023 AGU Fall Meeting
- New IDP Virtual Field Lab at AGU 2023 Fall Meeting
- Registration Now Open for Climate of HOPE Conference
- School of Ice Applications for COLDEX Workshop
- Collaboration Between Women Helps Close the Gender Gap in Ice Core Science
- Announcing 3rd US Ice Core Open Science Meeting
- ICECReW 1.5-day workshop before US Ice Core Open Science Meeting
- Stay Connected with IDP
- Ice Drilling Support for NSF Polar Proposals
To view the newsletter, please go to:
https://icedrill.org/icebits/2023-fall