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Request for Community Input - Draft 2017 Long Range Science Plan
Will you need an ice core or an access hole drilled in a glacier or ice sheet in the coming decade? If so, please read on and send us your input!
Each year in the spring the Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) of the U.S. Ice Drilling Program works with its Science Advisory Board and with the research community to update the IDPO Long Range Science Plan. This Plan identifies the science in the coming decade that will require the use of ice drilling technology and expertise for the community. This also drives the formation of other plans, for example the IDDO Long Range Drilling Technology Plan. The plans provide the basis for multi-annual planning for the actions and drill development projects of IDPO-IDDO and others, and the plans give the funding agencies advance notice of upcoming community science needs.
If you will need an ice core or a hole drilled in a glacier or ice sheet in the coming decade, or a rock core from under shallow glacial ice, please make sure that the high-level articulation of your science is captured in the current draft update of the IDPO Long Range Science Plan!
Please read through the draft Long Range Science Plan and send corrections, updates, or additions to Icedrill@Dartmouth.edu ASAP or not later than May 25, 2017.
Submission deadline: 25 May 2017
To download the working draft, please visit:
http://icedrill.org/long-range-science-plan
Winter 2016-17 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available
The WINTER 2016-17 quarterly update of IDPO and IDDO activities is now available at:
https://icedrill.org/icebits
Topics include:
- Successful Deployment of IDDO's Two New Rock Coring Drills
- 2016-2017 Antarctic Field Season Wraps Up
- Equipment Development: Stampfli 2-Inch Drill, Rapid Air Movement (RAM) Drill, Sediment Laden Lake Ice Drill
- IDPO Involved in Multiple Education and Outreach Events: Education Outreach Event at Montshire Museum, School of Ice, Checking Out Your Team, New Education Outreach Website
- IDPO Hosts Successful Town Hall at AGU Fall Meeting
- Requesting Ice Drilling Support
To view the newsletter, please go to:
https://icedrill.org/icebits
April 11, 2017 DEADLINE: Requesting Ice Drilling Support for NSF Antarctic Research Opportunities (17-543) program solicitation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Polar Programs has issued a new solicitation (17-543) for Antarctic research proposals. NSF's full proposal deadline is May 23, 2017.
* If your NSF proposal requires any kind of ice drilling, ice coring, or borehole logging support from the IDDO group at the University of Wisconsin, you must contact IceDrill@dartmouth.edu at least 6 weeks prior to the proposal deadline, in this case by April 11, 2017. *
IDPO/IDDO contact deadline: April 11, 2017
NSF full proposal deadline: May 23, 2017
For more information about requesting ice drilling support, visit:
http://www.icedrill.org/scientists/scientists.shtml
For information and ideas about partnering with the IDPO for broader impacts, please visit:
http://www.icedrill.org/scientists/outreach_support.shtml
For information about the 2017 Antarctic Research Opportunities (17-543) funding opportunity, visit:
https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?WT.z_pims_id=5519&ods_key=nsf17543
Ice Drilling Support for NSF Polar Proposals
The NSF Antarctic Science section will now accept proposals at any time for solicitation ANT 18-530, and the NSF Arctic section will accept proposals at any time for solicitation ARC 16-595. Scientists who are proposing research that will require ice coring or ice drilling, and associated education and outreach activities, should request field support from IDPO-IDDO by completing a Field Project Support Requirements form available at https://icedrill.org/scientists/scientists.shtml , and/or follow the directions regarding obtaining outreach support at https://icedrill.org/scientists/outreach_support.shtml . Scientists should send the information to Icedrill@Dartmouth.edu at least 3 weeks before the target date for submitting your NSF proposal.
IDPO-IDDO Field Project Support Requirements Form: https://icedrill.org/scientists/scientists.shtml
IDPO Outreach Support for Scientists:
https://icedrill.org/scientists/outreach_support.shtml
ANT 18-530 solicitation:
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18530/nsf18530.htm
Frequently asked questions for ANT 18-530:
https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf18042
ARC 16-595 solicitation:
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2016/nsf16595/nsf16595.htm
Science Planning Workshop: Research with the Rapid Access Ice Drill
MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
Science Planning Workshop: Research with the Rapid Access Ice Drill
March 2-3, 2017
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
La Jolla, California
Conveners:
John Goodge, University of Minnesota Duluth
Jeff Severinghaus, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
We invite you to participate in a science workshop to help shape future interdisciplinary research with the Rapid Access Ice Drill (RAID). Goals and initial planning for the workshop are outlined in this announcement. Please see the RAID website to register with an expression of interest.
Goals of the workshop: RAID is in Antarctica! Now is a good time to bring together the scientific community interested in using the RAID system for deep glacial and subglacial sampling, and for the boreholes it will create, including integrated ice drilling, ice and rock coring, borehole logging, and geophysical data acquisition. This workshop will provide a venue to bring scientists together to explore new science questions or approaches; define science goals; seek synergies between different disciplines for RAID; and develop a coherent community science plan for use of this unique drilling system. The workshop will be a great opportunity to bring together researchers with scientific interests in ice-sheet dynamics, paleoclimate, borehole logging, the ice-sheet interface, exposure and uplift histories, subglacial bedrock geology, subglacial sediments, microbiology, heat flow, potential-field geophysics, seismology, geodetics, and ice-penetrating radar.
When: Thursday and Friday, March 2-3, 2017. This will be a 2-day meeting, convened from 0800-1800 each day. Participants are encouraged to arrive in San Diego on March 1 and depart either the evening of the 3rd or over the following weekend. Please check the RAID website (http://www.rapidaccessicedrill.org/) or contact one of the conveners for information.
Where: Scripps Institution of Oceanography and University of California San Diego in La Jolla.
Who: The workshop is open to all scientists interested in using or contributing to the science enabled by RAID. Please pass this announcement on to anyone who might be interested. Please help us reach young investigators and under-represented groups by sharing this announcement and suggesting to us the names of people we can contact.
Cost: There will be no meeting registration cost. Breakfast and lunch meals will be provided. NSF is funding the workshop in order to provide partial travel to some US participants for travel and accommodation. Preference will be given to young and under-represented investigators.
Responses: Interested participants should complete an electronic reply on the RAID website (www.rapidaccessicedrill.org) to provide an Expression of Scientific Interest so that we can plan for the number of attendees and workshop agenda.
Contact information:
Jeff Severinghaus
jseveringhaus@ucsd.edu
Tomomi Ushii
tomomi@ucsd.edu
John Goodge
jgoodge@d.umn.edu
Additional Information: Visit the RAID WEBSITE or download the WORKSHOP BROCHURE.
IDDO POSITION VACANCY: FIELD SUPPORT MANAGER
The Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO) unit seeks a motivated individual to work within a dynamic team that supports research in the Arctic and Antarctic. This position requires strong problem-solving skills, excellent customer service, understanding of mechanical and electrical systems and willingness to deploy to the Polar Regions for a duration of up to 3 months.
For more information, visit:
http://jobs.hr.wisc.edu/cw/en-us/job/493526/iddo-field-support-manager
Fall 2016 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available
The FALL 2016 quarterly update of IDPO and IDDO activities is now available at:
https://icedrill.org/icebits
Topics include:
- IDDO Equipment On Its Way to Antarctica for 2016-2017 Field Season
- Field Support to Antarctic 2016-2017 Projects
- Equipment Development: Agile Sub-Ice Geological Drill, Winkie Drill, Rapid Air Movement Drill, MAgIC Drill/Intermediate Depth Drill-Light, Foro Drill, Deep Ice Sheet Coring Drill
- Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions AGU Town Hall Meeting
- Call for Nominations: Science Advisory Board to the U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office
- 2016 Technical Advisory Board Meeting
- Education and Outreach
- Requesting Ice Drilling Support
- Field Support to Science Projects
To view the newsletter, please go to:
https://icedrill.org/icebits
Call for Nominations: Science Advisory Board to the U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office
To: U.S. Ice Drilling Community
From: U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office
Subject: Call for Nominations: Science Advisory Board to the U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office
Deadline: November 15, 2016
The Science Advisory Board (SAB) to the U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office invites nominations and expressions of interest from the scientific community to fill two open positions on the SAB. The SAB invites nominations and expressions of interest from all specialties but is particularly interested in maintaining expertise in geophysics and sub glacial processes. The primary purpose of the SAB ( http://icedrill.org/about/sab.shtml ) is to maintain a long range science plan for US ice drilling activities that that addresses multiple aspects of ice and related science and associated technology, and informs investments in drilling and related infrastructure. SAB members typically serve for three years, attend the annual SAB meeting, and collaborate remotely as needed. Three SAB working groups, which include some SAB members and other members of the scientific community, provide input to SAB activities. For more information about the SAB please contact the current chair, Ed Brook (brooke@geo.oregonstate.edu).
* Please send nominations and expressions of interest to Icedrill@Dartmouth.edu by November 15, 2016. *
Fall AGU Town Hall Meeting: Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions
Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions AGU Town Hall Meeting
Date: Tuesday, 13 December 2016
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Place: Moscone West, 2005
The U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) is once again organizing a Town Hall meeting at the Fall AGU Meeting entitled 'TH010: Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions'. Ice sheets, glaciers, and the underlying bedrock, sediment and permafrost hold crucial evidence of past climate, ice sheet extent, and cratonic geology. National and international collaboration for drilling in the remote polar regions requires strategic coordination between science, technology, and logistics. This meeting will provide the research community with updates on IDPO-IDDO, IPICS, IPA, RAID, and WISSARD drilling initiatives. Opportunities for community involvement will be showcased, and input from the audience will be solicited.
AGU meeting website for more information:
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/meetingapp.cgi/Session/14227
For further information, please contact
Mary Albert (Mary.R.Albert at dartmouth.edu)
Summer 2016 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available
The SUMMER 2016 quarterly update of IDPO and IDDO activities is now available at:
https://icedrill.org/icebits
Topics include:
- Winkie Drill System Tested at IDDO Warehouse
- IDPO Hosts Successful Subglacial Access Science Community Planning Workshop in Herndon, VA
- GreenTrACS Successfully Uses IDDO Hand Auger and Sidewinder to Collect Shallow Ice Cores
- Equipment Development (Agile Sub-Ice Geological Drill, Winkie Drill, Rapid Air Movement Drill, MAgIC Drill/Intermediate Depth Drill-Light, Foro Drill, Deep Ice Sheet Coring Drill)
- Long Range Science and Long Range Drilling Technology Plans Updated
- IDPO Involved in Multiple Education and Outreach Events
- IDDO Field Support Manager Vacancy
- Requesting Ice Drilling Support
To view the newsletter, please go to:
https://icedrill.org/icebits