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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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December 04, 2019
Fall 2019 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available
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PolarTREC Education and Outreach Opportunity
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Summer 2019 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available
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Spring 2019 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available
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Current Fieldwork

2019-2020 Antarctic

  • Geological History Constraints on the Magnitude of Grounding Line Retreat in the Thwaites Glacier System
  • Thwaites-Amundsen Regional Survey and Network (TARSAN)
  • Early and Mid Pleistocene Climate Archives from the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area
  • The Ecosystem Ecology of Lake Ice Loss in North-Temperate Lakes
  • RAID Antarctic Field Trial (AFT) 3
  • Radio and Optical Measurements of Glacial Ice Properties Using the SPICEcore Borehole

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2020 Arctic

  • Greenland: Climate Drivers and Ancient History in Greenland Ice
  • Greenland: Quantifying Heat/Mass Structure and Fluxes through the Full Thickness of Greenland's Percolation Zone
  • 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

2020-2021 Antarctic

  • Ground Geophysics Survey of Thwaites Glacier
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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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