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Photos profiling the equipment, science, and outreach supported by NSF IDP
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Beth Bergeron (left) and Michael Jayred (right) drilling a 130-meter deep ice core at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, during the 2006-2007 summer field season. Photo: Joseph Souney

4-Inch Drill

The control station for the 700 Drill. Credit: Umberto Stefanini.

700 Drill

ASIG Drill in operation at Pirrit Hills, Antarctica, during the 2016-2017 summer field season. Photo: Tanner Kuhl

Agile Sub-Ice Geological Drill

The 6 meter x 6 meter Axion tent set-up inside the IDP-WI warehouse. Photo credit: IDP.

Axion Tent

A Multi-Power Products Ltd employee (foreground) demonstrates the BASE Drill to IDP engineer/driller Elliot Moravec (background). Credit: Jay Johnson.

BASE Drill

Interior of the new Blue Ice Drill tent at Law Dome, Antarctica, during the 2018/19 field season. Credit: Peter Neff

Blue Ice Drill

The 2024 IDP cargo ramp; a lighter weight ramp for safer and easier loading and unloading of cargo at polar field sites. Photo credit: IDP

Cargo Ramps

A scientist uses the Chipmunk Drill at Pakitsoq, West Greenland, in 2004 to recover samples of ice. Credit: Ed Brook

Chipmunk Drill

The Deep Logging Winch for logging boreholes up to 4000-meters deep.

Deep Logging Winch

One of the shallow drill sites at Allan Hills, Antarctica, during the 2009-2010 summer field season. Credit: Mike Waszkiewicz

Eclipse Drill

Drilling with the thermal drill at Combatant Col, Mt. Waddington, British Columbia, during the 2010 field season. Credit: Eric Steig

Electrothermal Drill

A close-up view of an ice core still in the Foro 1650 drill barrel. Credit: Peter Rejcek

Foro 1650 Drill

Foro 400 drill system inside the drill tent at Allan Hills, Antarctica, during the 2019/20 field season. Credit: Tanner Kuhl

Foro 400 Drill

IDDO hand auger kit contents. Credit: Josh Jetson

Hand Auger IDDO

Kovacs 9-cm Mark II hand auger kit at NSF IDP.

Hand Auger Kovacs

A SIPRE hand auger is used on an ice-covered northern U.S. temperate lake. Credit: Robert McKay

Hand Auger SIPRE

Ice well facility with chiller in the foreground. Photo: Chris Gibson

Ice Well

The intermediate depth logging winch in operation at Siple Dome, Antarctica, during the 2013-2014 summer field season. Credit: Josh Jetson

Intermediate Depth Logging Winch

The intermediate depth logging winch in operation at Siple Dome, Antarctica, during the 2013-2014 summer field season. The logging tower is strapped to the Siple Dome borehole casing. Credit: Josh Jetson

Logging Tower

The MAST tent for the BID-Deep system at Allan Hills, Antarctica, during the 2019/20 field season. Credit: Tanner Kuhl.

MAST Tents

A field team led by Craig Lee (INSTAAR, UC-Boulder) and co-principal investigators David McWethy (Montana State University) and Greg Pederson (US Geological Survey) use the Prairie Dog Drill to recover a core from an ice patch in the Greater Yellowstone Area. Credit: Chris Boyer

Prairie Dog

IDP driller Mike Jayred tests the RAM Drill during the 2010-2011 field season for the Askaryan Radio Array project at South Pole. Photo: Michael DuVernois

Rapid Air Movement Drill

Testing of the SLLID at the IDP-Wisconsin warehouse in Madison, WI. Credit: IDP-Wisconsin

Sediment Laden Lake Ice Drill

Using the Sidewinder at Allan Hills, Antarctica, for the NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration (COLDEX) project. Photo credit: Jenna Epifanio, COLDEX.

Sidewinder

The Small Hot Water Drill set-up at the University of Wisconsin's Physical Sciences Laboratory for testing/upgrade during the 2015 summer. Photo: Terry Benson

Small Hot Water Drill

Researchers use the Stampfli Drill to collect a 50-meter long core from the summit plateau of Mount Hunter, Alaska. Credit: David Polashenski

Stampfli Drill

IDP driller/winch operator Elizabeth Morton assists with borehole logging operations at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, during the 2011-2012 summer field season. Credit: Kristina Slawny

USGS Deep Logging Winch

Photo of an IDP windscreen inside the IDP-WI warehouse. Photo credit: IDP.

Windscreens

The Winkie Drill in Ong Valley, Antarctica, during the 2017-2018 Antarctic field season. Credit: Andrew Grant

Winkie Drill

This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Continuing Grant No. 2318480 to Dartmouth, and sub-awards to University of Wisconsin and University of New Hampshire which support the work of the U.S. National Science Foundation 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 U.S. National Science Foundation.

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