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Ice Drilling and Borehole Logging Equipment
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Learn how to request field support from IDP
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The quarterly newsletter of IDP activities
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Home of IDP's education & outreach program
Current Fieldwork
2020 Arctic
- Peru: Investigation of High Andean Snow and Ice Chemistry to Improve Paleoclimatic Reconstruction and Enhance Climate Prediction
- North America: Sediment Transport Mechanisms and Geomorphic Processes Associated with Shore Ice along Cold Climate Coastlines
- North America: The Ecosystem Ecology of Lake Ice Loss in North-Temperate Lakes
- Greenland: Greenland Neutrino Observatory
Upcoming Fieldwork
2020-2021 Antarctic
- Ground Geophysics Survey of Thwaites Glacier
- Geological History Constraints on the Magnitude of Grounding Line Retreat in the Thwaites Glacier System
- Early and Mid Pleistocene Climate Archives from the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area
- Constraining West Antarctic Ice Sheet Elevation during the last Interglacial
2021 Arctic
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.
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.