Ice Core Drilling

PREFACE

The International Ice Core Forum (ICCF) was founded in Bern by several participants of the Bern Meeting (April 1987) on Ice Core Analysis held under the auspices of SCAR.

One of the main conclusions of this group, which convened for the first time in Bremerhaven on 10 September 1987 was that it is time for another drilling workshop, where mainly technicians could meet and discuss new technical developments in the field, since the Calgary symposium of 1982 : a questionnaire regarding this workshop was circulated by K.H. Bassler (AWI, Bremerhaven) at the end of September 1987. The responses demonstrated the timeliness of such an initiative. The LGGE (Grenoble) then proposed to organize a 1 week workshop in October 1988. Its scope, date and venue were decided based on the requirements of those who planed to participate. Fourty people from Europe, USSR, USA, Japan ... attended the meeting held at Grenoble, France from the 10th to the 14th of October, 1988. The list of attending registrants is given in appendix. 25 papers were presented, but some of them were not included in the proceedings because we did not get the manuscript in time or because of their "too scientific" topic.

Support for the workshop came from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Universite Joseph Fourier of Grenoble and the registrants fee.

Manuscript preparation was the responsibility of authors except for non-englishcontributors : their paper has been corrected. The typing has been made by V.D.I. in Grenoble and the editing by the LGGE of Grenoble.

The local organizing committee