Science Advisory Board

The IDP convenes a Science Advisory Board (SAB) for the purpose of forming and updating a Long Range Science Plan that addresses multiple science disciplines and associated technology. Below are the current members of the SAB as well as SAB-related documents. The SAB also convenes two standing working groups: Englacial and Subglacial Access and Ice Core.

Members

Allie Balter-Kennedy

Tufts University
Division of Earth and Climate Sciences
Medford, MA 02155

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Paul Bierman

University of Vermont
Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
Burlington, VT 05405

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Nathan Chellman

Desert Research Institute
Division of Hydrologic Sciences
Reno, NV USA

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T.J. Fudge

University of Washington
Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Seattle, WA USA

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Joel Harper

University of Montana
Department of Geosciences
Missoula, MT USA

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Michael Kaplan

Columbia University
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Palisades, NY 10964

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Sarah Shackleton

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Geology & Geophysics
Woods Hole, MA USA

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Documents

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Citation	Year
Englacial and Subglacial Access Working Group (2026) Presentations: 2026 Englacial and Subglacial Access Working Group Meeting (April 8, 2026).	2026
Ice Core Working Group (2026) Presentations: 2026 Ice Core Working Group Meeting (February 23, 2026).	2026
Science Advisory Board (2026) Presentations: 2026 Science Advisory Board Meeting (March 19, 2026).	2026
Science Advisory Board (2026) Terms of Reference: Science Advisory Board of the Ice Drilling Program. 1-2.	2026
Englacial and Subglacial Access Working Group (2025) Presentations: 2025 Englacial and Subglacial Access Working Group Meeting (April 9, 2025).	2025
Ice Core Working Group (2025) Presentations: 2025 Ice Core Working Group Meeting (April 8, 2025).	2025
NSF Ice Drilling Program (2025) IDP Code of Conduct.	2025
NSF Ice Drilling Program (2025) Quick Reference Sheet – Existing Hot Water Drills.	2025
Science Advisory Board (2025) Presentations: 2025 Science Advisory Board Meeting (April 17, 2025).	2025
Englacial and Subglacial Access Working Group (2024) Terms of Reference: IDP Englacial and Subglacial Access Working Group.	2024
Ice Core Working Group (2024) Terms of Reference: Ice Core Working Group. 1-2.	2024
Ice Core Working Group (2023) Presentations: 2023 Ice Core Working Group Meeting (May 11, 2023). Ice Drilling Program Ice Core Working Group Meeting, May 11, 2023,	2023
Science Advisory Board (2023) Presentations: 2023 Science Advisory Board Meeting (May 1, 2023). Ice Drilling Program Science Advisory Board Meeting, May 1, 2023,	2023
Ice Core Working Group (2022) Presentations: 2022 Ice Core Working Group Meeting (February 17, 2022). Ice Drilling Program Ice Core Working Group Meeting, February 17, 2022, Virtual Meeting,	2022
Science Advisory Board (2022) Presentations: 2022 Science Advisory Board Meeting (March 3-4, 2022). Ice Drilling Program Science Advisory Board Meeting, March 3-4, 2022, Virtual Meeting,	2022
Ice Core Working Group (2021) Presentations: 2021 Ice Core Working Group Meeting. Ice Drilling Program Ice Core Working Group Meeting, March 8, 2021, Virtual Meeting,	2021
Science Advisory Board (2021) Presentations: 2021 Science Advisory Board Meeting. Ice Drilling Program Science Advisory Board Meeting, March 18-19, 2021, Virtual Meeting,	2021
TJ Fudge, Brent C Christner, Juliana D'Andrilli, John Fegyveresi, Andrei Kurbatov, Mark S Twickler (2020) IDP Ice Core Working Group: Community Recommendations for the NSF Ice Core Facility. Ice Drilling Program Ice Core Working Group Community Meeting, April 2, 2020, Virtual Meeting, 1-5.	2020
Paolo Gabrielli, Seth Campbell, Zoe Courville, Karl Kreutz, Andrei Kurbatov, Peter D Neff, Erich Osterberg, Erin Pettit, Summer Rupper (2020) IDP Ice Core Working Group (IDP-ICWG): Alpine Glaciers and Ice Caps. Ice Drilling Program Ice Core Working Group Community Meeting, April 2, 2020, Virtual Meeting, 1-15.	2020
Ice Core Working Group (2020) Presentations: 2020 Ice Core Working Group Community Meeting (Virtual). Ice Drilling Program Ice Core Working Group Community Meeting, April 2, 2020, Virtual Meeting, 1.	2020
Tyler R Jones, Sarah Aarons, Edward Brook, Christo Buizert, Jihong Cole-Dai, TJ Fudge, John Higgins, Kaitlin Keegan, Andrei Kurbatov, Peter D Neff, Erich Osterberg, Vasilii Petrenko, Jeffrey P Severinghaus, Eric J Steig (2020) IDP Ice Core Working Group (IDP-ICWG): Paleoclimate Ice Core Research Priorities in Antarctica. Ice Drilling Program Ice Core Working Group Community Meeting, April 2, 2020, Virtual Meeting, 1-12.	2020
Erich Osterberg, Jessica Badgeley, Christo Buizert, Juliana D'Andrilli, TJ Fudge, Tyler R Jones, Karl Kreutz, Vasilii Petrenko, Erin Pettit, Dominic Winski (2020) IDP Ice Core Working Group (IDP-ICWG): Ice Core Research Priorities in Greenland. Ice Drilling Program Ice Core Working Group Community Meeting, April 2, 2020, Virtual Meeting, 1-13.	2020
Allie Balter, Lucas H Beem, John W Goodge, Sean Gulick, Chloe Gustafson, David Harwood, Jennifer Lamp, Amy Leventer, Amelia Schevenell, Matthew R Siegfried, Perry Spector, John Stone, Slawek Tulaczyk, Sophie Warny, Paul Winberry, Dale Winebrenner, Duncan Young (2019) Assessment of East Antarctic Ice Sheet sensitivity to warming and its potential for contributions to sea level rise. Ice Drilling Program Subglacial Access Working Group Science Planning Workshop, March 29-30, 2019, Herndon, Virginia, USA, 1-18.	2019
Kristin Poinar, Jennifer Lamp, Allie Balter, Perry Spector, Dale Winebrenner, Slawek Tulaczyk (2019) Subglacial Access Working Group (SAWG): Access Drilling Priorities in Greenland. Ice Drilling Program Subglacial Access Working Group Science Planning Workshop, March 29-30, 2019, Herndon, Virginia, USA, 1-7.	2019
Perry Spector, John Stone, Nathaniel Lifton, Robert Ackert, Brent Goehring, Greg Balco, Bill McIntosh, Seth Campbell, Matt Zimmerer, Trista J Vick-Majors, Dale Winebrenner (2019) Drilling priorities to determine the past extent of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Ice Drilling Program Subglacial Access Working Group Science Planning Workshop, March 29-30, 2019, Herndon, Virginia, USA, 1-10.	2019

Working Groups

During its 2012 meeting, the IDP Science Advisory Board (SAB) voted to add elements to its structure to include standing working groups by including the existing Ice Core Working Group and forming two new working groups: Borehole Logging Working Group (BLWG) and Subglacial Access Working Group (SAWG). In 2023, with access to the polar ice sheets beginning to open following the pandemic years, the SAB recommended that the SAWG and BLWG cease as separate groups. Instead, a single new working group, the IDP Englacial and Subglacial Access Working Group (ESAWG), was formed. The ESAWG provides an opportunity to develop and articulate new visions for U.S.-led englacial and subglacial science for the coming decade in the IDP Long Range Science Plan.

Other working groups may be added in the future if there is a need. Each working group will have a membership including a SAB member, and will hold virtual meetings through teleconferences and webinars to provide broader community input to the SAB for use in forming the Long Range Science Plan and other actions relevant to the working group interest.

Science Advisory Board

SAB Chair

Sarah Shackleton

Members

Allie Balter-Kennedy

Paul Bierman

Nathan Chellman

T.J. Fudge

Joel Harper

Michael Kaplan

Sarah Shackleton

Documents

Working Groups