Publications

If you receive any support from IDP, we kindly request you acknowledge IDP in any resultant publications or articles with the following statement: “We thank the U.S. Ice Drilling Program for support activities through NSF Cooperative Agreement 2318480.” If you have any questions, please contact us at IceDrill@Dartmouth.edu.

A list of peer-reviewed publications from projects that received field support from IDP (or publications authored by IDP staff) is available at https://icedrill.org/publications.

IDP also maintains a library of technical ice drilling documents and publications at https://icedrill.org/library. See the article above for more information.

The Library section of the IDP website serves as a portal to ice drilling technology documents and publications of interest to the ice drilling community and currently contains links to over 700 documents. The portal is organized by drilling topic (e.g., deep drilling, drilling fluids, hot water drilling, etc.), equipment type (e.g., 4-Inch Drill, Blue Ice Drill, etc.), U.S. Ice Drilling Program documents (e.g., equipment manuals, meeting/workshop presentations and notes, science requirements for equipment, etc.), and special collections (e.g., CRREL Reports, International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences (IPICS), International Workshop/Symposium on Ice Drilling Technology series, etc.). Visit the IDP Library.

The U.S. Ice Drilling Program (IDP) is a program funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) that conducts ice coring and drilling in some of the world’s most intriguing and challenging environments: the Arctic, Antarctic, and temperate glaciers. The cores and boreholes produced provide important evidence of the past, and the drilling scene is compelling. IDP engineers, drillers, and IDP drilling apparatus in the field need to be acknowledged in photos, social media, and press releases. In addition, IDP must be acknowledged in publication of results of analysis of ice cores, rock cores, and samples that IDP has drilled. Our policy for each is as follows.

Photographs to be made available to the public

Photographs of IDP staff to be used in social media, press releases, or publications must have prior permission from the staff depicted. In addition, if IDP equipment is included in the photo, permission must be acquired from the IDP Director of Operations, Kristina Slawny.

Social media including Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube

Tweets and social media posts that contain photos or mention of IDP staff and/or IDP drilling equipment should credit IDP by providing the IDP tag. If the post includes a photo of IDP staff, prior permission from the staff depicted is also needed. The content of the post should not imply that the drilling is being conducted by any entity other than IDP.

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Press releases

Articles written by any non-IDP entity intended for press release containing photos or mention of IDP staff and/or IDP drilling equipment need to acknowledge the U.S. Ice Drilling Program. In addition, if the post includes a photo of IDP staff, prior permission from the staff member depicted is also required.

Publications

Papers written for publication in any journal or magazine that contain results from analysis of cores, samples, or boreholes that IDP drilled must contain the following acknowledgment:
“We thank the U.S. Ice Drilling Program for support activities through NSF Cooperative Agreement 1836328.”

In 2022, the US National Science Foundation, via the Ice Drilling Program, funded a workshop for US early-career researchers to become more involved in the ice-core community. The Ice Core Early Career Researchers Workshop (ICECReW) was held January 5-8, 2022, in Salt Lake City, Utah, and online. Participants met with established researchers to better understand outcomes of and resources available from past ice core projects, learn about opportunities to engage with future efforts, and connect with potential collaborators. Participants also produced the following series of articles, published in Past Global Changes Magazine, to help communicate ice core science to undergraduate students and ice core-adjacent researchers:

• Editorial: Early-career perspectives on ice-core science
• From drilling to data: retrieval, transportation, analysis, and long-term storage of ice-core samples
• Putting the time in time machine: Methods to date ice cores
• Our frozen past: ice-core insights into earth’s climate history
• Ice-core records of atmospheric composition and chemistry
• Fire trapped in ice: An introduction to biomass burning records from high-alpine and polar ice cores
• Ice-core records of human impacts on the environment
• The living record: considerations for future biological studies of ice cores
• Firn: Applications for the interpretation of ice-core records and estimation of ice-sheet mass balance
• What can deep ice, water, sediments, and bedrock at the ice–bed interface tell us?
• Ice-core constraints on past sea-level change

The U.S. Ice Drilling Program (IDP) Long Range Science Plans and community requests have shown increased interest in collecting subglacial and basal ice samples. Subglacial sampling is a significant technical challenge from a drilling standpoint because of the wide range of potential basal environments. In a new white paper, IDP engineers explore and compare existing drill technology (tethered coring drills, rotary-pipe rigs, and hot water drills) needed to collect basal samples in a variety of subglacial environments. The paper then discusses the development needed for clean access and reducing logistics for each approach. Finally, new approaches, including autonomous drills, lasers, and water jet cutting, are evaluated. For more information, read the Basal Access and Sampling Feasibility Study.

The Library section of the IDP website serves as a portal to ice drilling technology documents and publications of interest to the ice drilling community and currently contains links to over 650 documents. The portal is organized by drilling topic (e.g., deep drilling, drilling fluids, hot water drilling, etc.), equipment type (e.g., 4-Inch Drill, Blue Ice Drill, etc.), U.S. Ice Drilling Program documents (e.g., equipment manuals, meeting/workshop presentations and notes, science requirements for equipment, etc.), and special collections (e.g., CRREL Reports, International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences (IPICS), International Workshop/Symposium on Ice Drilling Technology series, etc.). Visit the IDP Library.

IDP held the Ice Core Working Group Community Planning Workshop on April 2-3, 2020. Originally planned to be held in Alexandria, VA, and originally advertised as the Ice Core Science Community Planning Workshop 2020, the workshop was held virtually via Zoom in response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Participants articulated future science targets in Greenland, Antarctica, and alpine glaciers and ice caps (outside Antarctica and Greenland), and discussed recommendations for the NSF Ice Core Facility. The workshop produced the following white papers:

• Community Recommendations for the NSF Ice Core Facility
• Paleoclimate Ice Core Research Priorities in Antarctica
• Alpine Glaciers and Ice Caps
• Ice Core Research Priorities in Greenland

If you receive any support from IDP, we kindly request that you acknowledge IDP in any resultant publications or articles with the following statement: “We thank the U.S. Ice Drilling Program for support activities through NSF Cooperative Agreement 1836328.” If you have any questions, please contact us at IceDrill@Dartmouth.edu.

On March 29-30, 2019 the Ice Drilling Program Subglacial Access Working Group Science Planning Workshop was held at the Washington Dulles Marriott Suites Worldgate hotel in Herndon, Virginia. The goal of the interdisciplinary ice community workshop was to identify future Arctic and Antarctic drilling sites for subglacial science, the ice drilling technology that is needed, and the timeline over the coming decade for advancing subglacial science on multiple frontiers.

IDP Subglacial Access Working Group conveners Slawek Tulaczyk and Jill Mikucki worked with workshop participants in generation of the following white papers:

• Assessment of East Antarctic Ice Sheet sensitivity to warming and its potential for contributions to sea level rise
• Access Drilling Priorities in the Ross Ice Shelf Region
• Subglacial Access Working Group (SAWG): Access Drilling Priorities in Greenland

The targeted future drilling sites and dates will be included in the planning matrices of the updated IDP Long Range Science Plan 2019 - 2029, which will be completed in June. The white papers are available on the IDP webpage at https://icedrill.org/about/meetings.shtml.

If you receive any support from IDP, we kindly request that you acknowledge IDP in any resultant publications or articles with the following statement: "We thank the U.S. Ice Drilling Program for support activities through NSF Cooperative Agreement 1836328." If you have any questions, please contact us at icedrill@dartmouth.edu.

If you receive any support from IDPO-IDDO, we kindly request that you acknowledge IDPO-IDDO in any resultant publications or articles with the following statement: "We thank the Ice Drilling Program Office and Ice Drilling Design and Operations group for coring activities (NSF-1327315)." If you have any questions, please contact us at icedrill@dartmouth.edu.

If you receive any support from IDPO-IDDO, we kindly request that you credit IDPO-IDDO in any resultant publications or articles with the following statement: "We thank the Ice Drilling Program Office and Ice Drilling Design and Operations group for coring activities (NSF-1327315)." If you have any questions regarding crediting IDPO-IDDO, please contact us at icedrill@dartmouth.edu .

IDPO finished its effort to make all of the proceedings from the six international workshops on ice drilling technology held to date available online at: http://www.icedrill.org/library/index.shtml

There are a total of 160 papers from the workshops, bringing the total number of ice drilling technical documents now available to the community via the web site to 287.