2015 Fall

Topics:

• Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions AGU 2015 Town Hall Meeting
• Subglacial Access Drilling: IDPO Science Planning Workshop (2015 Fall)
• Applications Sought for IDPO's School of Ice 2016
• Field Support to Antarctic Projects (2015/2016)
• 2015 Technical Advisory Board Meeting

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2015 Summer

Topics:

• Beneficial, User-Identified Upgrades Made to IDDO Small Hot Water Drill
• IDPO Launches New Professional Development Course
• Acknowledgement of IDPO-IDDO in Publications (2015 Summer)
• Scientific Field Support (2015 Summer)
• Equipment Development (2015 Summer)
• 2015-2025 Long Range Science and Long Range Drilling Technology Plans Updated
• APECS IDPO Webinar
• Ice Core Working Group Virtual Meeting
• Borehole Logging Working Group Presentation

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2015 Spring

Topics:

• IDDO Receives Minerals Exploration Rig; Enters Exciting New Avenue of Subglacial Rock Coring
• Greenland Firn Aquifer Project Battles Tremendous Snowfall
• IDDO Continues Collaboration with UW PSL Hot Water Drilling Experts to Make User-Identified Upgrades to Small Hot Water Drills
• Beneficial Design Upgrades Continue for 4-Inch 'Foro' Drill
• IDPO Advances School of Ice
• IDPO Leads Successful 2015 Science Advisory Board Meeting in Arlington, VA
• Requesting Ice Drilling Support (2015 Spring)
• Drilling Support to Science Projects (2015 Spring)

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2014-2015 Winter

Topics:

• Rewarding Debut of Intermediate Depth Drill at South Pole Station
• Continued Success on Taylor Glacier
• WAIS Divide Schedule Challenges and Achievements
• ASIG Drill Development Project Paves the Way for Subglacial Access
• IDPO Hosts Successful Town Hall at AGU 2014 Fall Meeting
• Preparations Underway for School of Ice, a Professional Development Course
• NSTA Web Seminar – Fire and Ice: Snow Albedo and Our Future

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2014 Fall

Topics:

• Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions AGU 2014 Town Hall Meeting
• Field Support to Antarctic Projects (2014/2015)
• Education and Public Outreach (2014 Fall)
• 2014 Technical Advisory Board Meeting
• Media Kit (2014 Fall)
• Field Support to Science Projects (2014 Fall)

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2014 Summer

Topics:

• Long Range Planning Identifies the Direction of Research and Enables Drilling Technology
• IDPO Leads Reviews of Two IDDO Drills in Development
• Successful Field Test of IDDO's new Intermediate Depth Drill System in Greenland
• Cosmogenic Carbon-14 Core Project Successfully Completed Following Early Season Challenges
• IDPO Educational Outreach Develops New Interactive Map
• New Technology for the Community (2014 Summer)
• Construction of the Rapid Access Ice Drill (RAID) Begins!
• Don Lebar Retires After Nearly 13 Years as Head of UW-Madison's Ice Drilling Group

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2014 Spring

Topics:

• Changing Seasons for Field Project Support: Wrapping up a Successful Antarctic Season and Readying for a Bustling Arctic Season
• New Technology for the Community (2014 Spring)
• IDPO Organized Workshop for Future Deep and Intermediate Depth Ice Coring
• Don Lebar Announces Retirement
• Drilling and Logging Support to Science Projects (2014 Spring)

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2013-2014 Winter

Topics:

• Successful Project Support Amidst an Uncertain Antarctic Field Season
• Equipment Development (2013 Winter)
• Dartmouth, UNH and UW-Madison Continue Leadership of U.S. Ice Drilling Science and Engineering
• Educational Outreach (2013 Winter)

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2013 Fall

Topics:

• Field Support to Antarctic Projects (2013/2014)
• Equipment Development (2013 Fall)
• Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions 2013 Town Hall Meeting
• Educational Outreach (2013 Fall)
• Field Support to Science Projects (2013 Fall)

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2013 Summer

Topics:

• Scientific Drilling (2013 Arctic field season)
• Equipment Development (2013 Summer)
• Planning for the Future (2013 Summer)
• Educational Outreach (2013 Summer)
• Fiscal Challenges Facing the U.S. Antarctic Program — A Message to the U.S. Antarctic Program Research Community
• WAIS Divide Ice Core 2013 Science Meeting Reminder
• Conference Announcement: International Workshop on Ice Caves, Idaho Falls, USA, August 2014
• Drilling Support to Science Projects (2013 Summer)

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