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

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

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

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

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March 15, 2021
Winter 2020/21 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available
March 01, 2021
Ice Core Working Group 2021 Virtual Meeting
December 07, 2020
AGU Town Hall: Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions
December 04, 2020
Fall 2020 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available
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Current Fieldwork

2021 Arctic

  • North America: Sediment Transport Mechanisms and Geomorphic Processes Associated with Shore Ice along Cold Climate Coastlines
  • Greenland: Climate Drivers and Ancient History in Greenland Ice
  • Southeast Greenland Surface Mass Balance

Upcoming Fieldwork

2021-2022 Antarctic

  • Early and Mid Pleistocene Climate Archives from the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area
  • Field Validation of ICESat-2 at Western Thwaites
  • Constraining West Antarctic Ice Sheet Elevation during the last Interglacial
  • Geological History Constraints on the Magnitude of Grounding Line Retreat in the Thwaites Glacier System

2022 Arctic

  • Peru: Investigation of High Andean Snow and Ice Chemistry to Improve Paleoclimatic Reconstruction and Enhance Climate Prediction
  • Ice Core and Firn Aquifer Studies at Combatant Col, British Columbia, Canada
  • GreenDrill: The response of the northern Greenland Ice Sheet to Arctic Warmth - Direct constrains from sub-ice bedrock
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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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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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