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ECR Perspectives on Ice Core Science

Articles for undergraduate students and ice core adjacent researchers

A 2-meter-long section of ice from Combatant Col, Mt. Waddington, British Columbia, is removed from the Thermal Drill

Long Range Science Plan

Integrated planning for U.S. ice coring and drilling

Image of a core taken from the base of an ice sheet

Basal Access and Sampling Feasibility Study

New white paper from the U.S. Ice Drilling Program

The Blue Ice Drill at Summit, Greenland, during the 2010 field season

Ice Drilling and Borehole Logging Equipment

Explore the equipment available to the U.S. science community

Interior of the new Blue Ice Drill tent at Law Dome, Antarctica, during the 2018-2019 field season

Requesting Field Support

Learn how to request field support from IDP

Drilling with the Badger-Eclipse Drill at Allan Hills, Antarctica

Ice Bits Newsletter

The quarterly newsletter of IDP activities

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Home of IDP's education & outreach program

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News

March 13, 2023
Winter 2022/23 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available
February 06, 2023
2023 COLDEX Interdisciplinary Oldest Ice Science Short Course for Early Career Researchers - First Circular
December 12, 2022
Fall 2022 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available
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Current Fieldwork

2023 Arctic

  • Collaborative Research: AON Network for Observing Transformation of the Greenland Ice Sheet Firn Layer
  • Collaborative Research: GreenDrill: The response of the northern Greenland Ice Sheet to Arctic Warmth - Direct constrains from sub-ice bedrock
  • GreenDrill Geophysical Site Selection Activities
  • Collaborative Research: Investigating the Rate of Potential Biological in Situ Gas Production of CO and CH4 in Arctic Ice
  • Collaborative Research: P2C2-- Ice Core and Firn Aquifer Studies at Combatant Col, British Columbia, Canada
  • NSFGEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: Chemistry and Biology under Low Flow Hydrologic Conditions Beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet Revealed through Naturally Emerging Subglacial Water
  • Recent variability in biogenic sulfur aerosols in a central Greenland ice core

Upcoming Fieldwork

2023-2024 Antarctic

  • NSF-NERC: Ground Geophysics Survey of Thwaites Glacier
  • Collaborative Research: A New Approach to Firn Evolution using the Taylor Dome Natural Laboratory
  • Center for OLDest Ice Exploration (COLDEX)
  • Collaborative Research: Constraining West Antarctic Ice Sheet Elevation during the last Interglacial
  • Collaborative Research: EAGER: Dating Glacier Retreat and Readvance near Mount Waesche, West Antarctica
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Program Information

The U.S. Ice Drilling Program (IDP) is a NSF-funded facility. IDP conducts integrated planning for the ice drilling science and technology communities, and provides drilling technology and operational support that enables the community to advance the frontiers of climate and environmental science.

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Requesting Field Support

If you are preparing a NSF proposal that includes any kind of support from IDP, you must include a Letter of Support from IDP in the proposal. Researchers are asked to provide IDP with a detailed support request three weeks prior to the date the Letter of Support is required. Early submissions are strongly encouraged.

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Long Range Plans

  • Long Range Science Plan (2022)
  • Long Range Drilling Technology Plan (2022)
  • Presentations: AGU Town Hall TH010 - Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions (2021)

Science Requirements

  • Science Requirements: BASE (Basal Access and Subglacial Exploration) Drill (2022)
  • Science Requirements: 700 Drill (2021)
  • Science Requirements: Replicate Coring for the Foro 3000 Drill (2021)
  • Science Requirements: Sonde for Retrieving a Basal Ice Core During Clean Hot Water Drilling (2020)
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White Papers

  • Basal Access and Sampling Feasibility Study (2022)
  • Workshop Report - U.S. Scientific Traverses on the Greenland Ice Sheet: Community Planning Workshop (2021)
  • IDP Ice Core Working Group: Community Recommendations for the NSF Ice Core Facility (2020)
  • IDP Ice Core Working Group (IDP-ICWG): Alpine Glaciers and Ice Caps (2020)
  • IDP Ice Core Working Group (IDP-ICWG): Paleoclimate Ice Core Research Priorities in Antarctica (2020)
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Meeting Presentations, Reports, etc.

  • Presentations: 2022 Science Advisory Board Meeting (March 3-4, 2022) (2022)
  • Presentations: 2022 Ice Core Working Group Meeting (February 17, 2022) (2022)
  • Presentations: AGU Town Hall TH010 - Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions (2021)
  • Workshop Report - U.S. Scientific Traverses on the Greenland Ice Sheet: Community Planning Workshop (2021)
  • Presentations: U.S. Scientific Traverses on the Greenland Ice Sheet: a Planning Workshop (2021)
  • Presentations: 2021 Science Advisory Board Meeting (2021)
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Ice Drilling Technology Publications

  • The TRIPLE Melting Probe - an Electro-Thermal Drill with a Forefield Reconnaissance System to Access Subglacial Lakes and Oceans (2021) OCEANS 2021: San Diego – Porto
  • Progress of the RADIX (Rapid Access Drilling and Ice eXtraction) fast-access drilling system (2023) The Cryosphere
  • Heat transfer modelling of thermal anti-freezing method for ice hot-point drilling (2022) Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
  • Optimization of Hot-Water Drilling in Ice with Near-Bottom Circulation (2022) Water
  • Theoretical and experimental research to remove hot water out of drill hose of deep hot-water drilling system (2022) Polar Science
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Science Advisory Board

  • Presentations: 2022 Ice Core Working Group Meeting (February 17, 2022) (2022)
  • Presentations: 2022 Science Advisory Board Meeting (March 3-4, 2022) (2022)
  • Presentations: 2021 Ice Core Working Group Meeting (2021)
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Borehole Logging Working Group

  • Presentations: 2022 Science Advisory Board Meeting (March 3-4, 2022) (2022)
  • Logging Tool Testing: An Informational Guide - Logging Tool Equipment Testing at IDDO (2017)
  • Science Requirements for a Deep Logging Winch (2012)
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Ice Core Working Group

  • Presentations: 2022 Ice Core Working Group Meeting (February 17, 2022) (2022)
  • Presentations: 2022 Science Advisory Board Meeting (March 3-4, 2022) (2022)
  • Presentations: 2021 Ice Core Working Group Meeting (2021)
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Subglacial Access Working Group

  • Basal Access and Sampling Feasibility Study (2022)
  • Presentations: 2022 Science Advisory Board Meeting (March 3-4, 2022) (2022)
  • Assessment of East Antarctic Ice Sheet sensitivity to warming and its potential for contributions to sea level rise (2019)
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IDP Education and Outreach

Virtual Field Labs

advertisement for Dr. Meredith Kelly's virtual field lab entitled Climate Clues from the Past

Virtual Field Labs are unique interactive Education and Outreach products designed for students from late middle school to college. Virtual Field Labs are designed for students to watch with a teacher present (virtually or in-person) or independently on their own computers. Each Virtual Field Lab takes students along with a climate scientist as they collect and analyze data to answer a different climate question.

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School of Ice

Participants from the 2021 School of Ice work on activities

The School of Ice provides professional development workshops for faculty from Minority Serving Institutions, training participants to understand paleoclimate evidence derived from ice cores. It also provides participants with the opportunities and training to acquire the skills necessary to bring this exciting inquiry into new and existing Earth and environmental science classes on their campuses.

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Teaching Resources

screenshot of teaching activities available at the IDP education and outreach website

The Education and Outreach website hosts free teaching resources on topics of ice core science, ocean circulation, polar science, process of science, teaching tools, and virtual field labs that offer new participatory experiences for online learning. The website provides resources for classrooms or informal science program efforts with data that is useful to decision-makers of all backgrounds.

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Visit the IDP Education and Outreach website for activities and resources for educators, students, and the interested public.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement No. 1836328 to Dartmouth, and sub-awards to University of Wisconsin and University of New Hampshire which support the work of the U.S. Ice Drilling Program (IDP). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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