Terms of Reference: IDP Englacial and Subglacial Access Working Group

These are the Terms of Reference for the IDP Englacial and Subglacial Access Working Group.

Premable
The IDP Englacial and Subglacial Access Working Group (ESAWG) represents the
broad range of scientists invested in interdisciplinary efforts to investigate, access, sample, and
instrument englacial and subglacial environments. ESAWG seeks to involve representatives
from communities such as:
Biology – microbiology of ice, water, and sediment; biogeochemistry
Hydrology – physical/chemical hydrology of subglacial and englacial features, hydraulic testing
Geology – basal- and sub-ice sediment, sediment-water interactions, sub-ice rock, exposure dating
Geophysics – downhole geophysics, geotechnical observation, heat flow, basal motion
Glaciology – ice deformation, temperature, physical properties (e.g. grain size and crystal structure) of ice
Technology – robotics, melt-probes, long-term observation
Oceanography – grounding zone processes, sub-ice-shelf ocean observations, basal ice features, etc.