2011 Ice Drilling Science Community Planning Workshop

Results

On April 15-16, 2011 the IDPO sponsored an interdisciplinary Ice Drilling Science Community Planning Workshop held in Herndon, VA. The purpose of the workshop was to identify future Arctic and Antarctic ice drilling and coring sites, the ice drilling technology that will be needed at the sites, and the timeline over the coming decade for conducting the science. The workshop was well attended, with thirty-four people from the science, science support, and science funding communities in attendance, and proved to be very productive. The first day of the workshop started with short presentations from the scientists discussing their current ice drilling technology needs/desires. The afternoon involved forming four break-out groups centered around the following subject areas: (1) subglacial aquatic environments access drilling; (2) 10-year plan for shallow (1-400 meter deep) coring capabilities; (3) rapid access ice drilling (RAID) system; and (4) hot water drilling. Each break-out group discussed future drilling sites, drilling requirements, and tentative schedules, and began summarizing the information in a short white paper. Day two continued with the individual break-out group discussions and white paper development, and concluded with each break-out group reporting back to the entire workshop on their developments and whole group discussions.Results from the workshop are reflected in updates to the science descriptions, timeline and planning matrices in the Long Range Science Plan and the corresponding Long Range Drilling Technology Plan to help ensure that the drilling technology will be ready when needed by the community’s science. The white papers from the break-out groups are also available for download.

Results from the workshop are reflected in updates to the science descriptions, timeline and planning matrices in the Long Range Science Plan and the corresponding Long Range Drilling Technology Plan to help ensure that the drilling technology will be ready when needed by the community’s science.

The white papers from the break-out groups can be downloaded below:

Overview

Scientific discoveries achieved from, within, and beneath the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets and temperate glaciers are critical to society today, but they are not achieved without significant advance planning. The Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) is sponsoring an interdisciplinary ice community workshop to identify future Arctic and Antarctic drilling/coring sites, the ice drilling technology that will be needed, and the timeline over the coming decade for conducting scientific endeavors important for advancing science on many frontiers. The workshop will be held at the Washington Dulles Marriott Suites Hotel in Herndon, VA, on April 15 and 16. All are invited to participate.

Please register for the meeting ASAP. Registration for the workshop will close on April 7.NOTE: Registration for the workshop is now closed.

The current IDPO Long Range Science Plan for the ice coring and drilling community is available for download on https://icedrill.org; we update the plan every year in June. This plan drives the associated Long Range Drilling Technology Plan, available on the same site. Both plans drive the budget and our proposals for developing and maintaining ice coring and drilling technology for the research community. As explained in our recent Eos article (Albert et al, Eos Trans AGU, vol 91(39), 2010, p. 345-346), we encourage scientists to work with IDPO to forecast your science plans over the next decade -- this enables IDPO to really get the ball rolling on the ice drilling technology that will be needed to achieve your goals. Results from the workshop will be reflected in updates in the science descriptions, timeline and planning matrices in the Long Range Science Plan and Long Range Drilling Technology Plan, so that we can ensure that the drilling technology will be ready when needed by your science. We hope that you and your colleagues will join us in this planning.

Agenda

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Friday, April 15

Time	Speaker	Topic
8:00	Continental Breakfast

8:30	Mary Albert	Welcome and workshop goals
8:40	Julie Palais	NSF Remarks
8:50	Mark Sakadolsky	Air National Guard support
9:00	Eric Saltzman	Atmospheric histories of short-lived trace gases
9:15	Erich Osterberg	Alaskan alpine ice core record of late Holocene hydroclimate
9:30	Eric Steig	Drilling in wet places: Mt. Waddington and beyond
9:40	Andrei Kurbatov	Future science targets needing a modular drill system

10:00	Coffee Break

10:15	Vladimir Aizen	Central Asia Deep Ice-coring Project
10:30	Robert Hawley	In-situ measurements in polar firn with borehole optical stratigraphy
10:45	John Goodge	Old ice and old rocks - the need for rapid access
11:00	Jeff Severingahus	Reconnaissance for oldest ice - the need for rapid access
11:15	Slawek Tulaczyk	Going deep: drilling targets beyond the meteoric ice
11:30	Erin Pettit	Extending observations of climate history and ice dynamics
11:45	Howard Conway	Ice dynamics and glacial history

12:00	Lunch

12:30	Gary Clow	Temperature, heat flow, and borehole arrays
12:45	Ryan Bay	Particle physics-driven ice drilling
1:00	Christine Foreman	Drill baby drill: but how to do it cleanly for microbial studies
1:15	Jill Mikucki	Subglacial geomicrobiology: community input on drilling/coring
1:30	Sridhar Anandakrishnan	Ice-ocean interactions
1:45	Ross Powell	Ice shelf cavities and subglacial geology
2:00	Frank Rack	ANDRILL Coulman High project and beyond
2:15	Mary Albert & SASB	Break-out group identification and tasks

2:30	Coffee Break

2:45	Break-out groups	Discuss drilling sites, year, and drilling requirements, begin white papers
5:00	All	Plenary: progress reports from each break-out group
5:30	Mary Albert & SAB	Summary and action items for tomorrow
5:45	Meeting adjourned for the day

Saturday, April 16

Time	Speaker	Topic
8:00	Continental breakfast

8:30	Mary Albert	Goals for the day
8:45	Break-out groups	Break-out groups finish short white papers

10:15	Coffee Break

10:30	Break-out group reps	Break-out group presentations and whole group discussions
11:45	Mary Albert	Summary and identification of next steps
12:00	Meeting adjourned

Attendee List

Vladimir Aizen
Mary Albert
Sridhar Anandakrishnan
Ryan Bay
Mark Behn
Charles Bentley
Alicea Bursey
Lisa Clough
Gary Clow
Howard Conway
Jessie Crain
Sarah Das
Christine Foreman
John Goodge
Robert Hawley
Matthew Kippenhan
Andrei Kurbatov
Don Lebar
Jill Mikucki
Tom Neumann
Erich Osterberg
Julie Palais
Erin Pettit
Ross Powell
Frank Rack
Mark Sakadolsky
Eric Saltman
Jeff Severinghaus
Joe Souney
Eric Steig
Paul Sullivan
Slawek Tulaczyk
Mark Twickler
Don Voigt

Registration

Registration for the workshop is now closed. If you have any questions, please contact us

Location

Washington Dulles Marriott Suites
13101 Worldgate Drive
Herndon, Virginia 20170 USA

Lodging

A block of rooms has been held at Washington Dulles Marriott Suites. You need to make your own reservations directly with the hotel at (703) 709 0400. Please refer to the group "IDPO Science Planning Workshop" when making reservations. The group rate is $79 plus tax. The cut-off date for accepting reservations into this room block is at 12:00 noon on April 1, 2011.

Note: If you are planning to attend the meeting, please register even if you are from the area and will not be staying in a hotel, so that we have a head count for the meeting room setup and lunch. If you want to give a short talk, indicate that when filling out your registration information. Thanks!

Travel

The Washington Dulles Marriott Suites is located only 3 miles from Washington Dulles International Airport and offers complimentary shuttle service to/from the Dulles airport.

Contact Us

For more information regarding the workshop please contact:

Mary Albert

Executive Director, Ice Drilling Program Office
Professor of Engineering
Dartmouth College Hanover, NH USA
Email: Mary.Albert "at" Dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603.646.0277
Web: https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/people/faculty/mary-albert/