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12 June 2019

Spring 2019 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available

The SPRING 2019 quarterly update of IDP activities is now available.

06 May 2019

Draft 2019 Long Range Science Plan Available

Request for Community Input Deadline: 17 May 2019

08 March 2019

Winter 2018-2019 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available

The WINTER 2018-2019 quarterly update of IDP activities is now available.

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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Equipment - Newly Available

Agile Sub-Ice Geological (ASIG) Drill

The ASIG Drill is capable of drilling through 700 meters of ice, taking pieces of ice core along the way, and then recovering 5-6 meters of bedrock core. Read more...

Sediment Laden Lake Ice Drill

A lightweight hot water drill useful for creating holes with very little initial water, and for freeing instrument cables and accessing equipment beneath ice. Read more...

Stampfli 2-Inch Drill

A very lightweight, PI-operable system capable of collecting 2"-diameter firn core down to 100-meters depth. Read more...

Winkie Drill

An agile rock coring unit adapted by IDP for subglacial rock coring. Using standard AW34 drill rod, the system has a depth capability of 120 meters. Read more...

Equipment - Active Development

Foro Drill

Lighter, more robust version of 4-Inch Drill, capable of recovering 98 mm diameter ice cores down to ~400 m depth. Read more...

RAM Drill (Upgrade)

Updated version of existing RAM Drill capable of drilling as fast as the existing drill, but at a small fraction of the current system weight. Read more...

Foro 3000 Drill

Adapation of existing Intermediate Depth Drill system to drill to 3,000 meters. Read more...

Rapid Access Ice Drill (RAID)

Rapidly core through ice sheet and into bedrock below. Read more...

Current & Upcoming Fieldwork

Greenland - Quantifying Heat/Mass Structure and Fluxes through the Full Thickness of Greenland's Percolation Zone
Greenland - Refreezing in the Firn of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Alaska - Electrothermal Drill Testing with the Juneau Icefield Research Program
Alaska - Exploration of the Denali Basal Ice Core Archive
Greenland - Partnerships for Polar Science Education and Outreach in Greenland (JSEP)

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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.