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** REMINDER ** Call for (Two) Nominations: Ice Core Working Group of the NSF Ice Drilling Program

The Ice Core Working Group (ICWG) of the NSF Ice Drilling Program (IDP) invites nominations, including self-nominations, from the U.S. scientific community to fill two open positions on the ICWG. The ICWG currently seeks to replace expertise in deep ice cores, aerosol chemistry, and/or Alpine ice cores. Nominees must be U.S.-based scientists whose science relies on the analysis of ice or firn cores. The ICWG is one of two working groups of the IDP Science Advisory Board (SAB). The primary purpose of the ICWG is to provide advice and input on scientific issues pertaining to ice cores to the SAB and to the IDP. ICWG members typically serve for five years, participate in the annual ICWG online meeting, and collaborate remotely throughout the year as needed.

Please send nominations and expressions of interest to icedrill@dartmouth.edu by November 10, 2025.

Call for (Two) Nominations: Ice Core Working Group of the NSF Ice Drilling Program

The Ice Core Working Group (ICWG) of the NSF Ice Drilling Program (IDP) invites nominations, including self-nominations, from the U.S. scientific community to fill two open positions on the ICWG. The ICWG currently seeks to replace expertise in deep ice cores, aerosol chemistry, and/or Alpine ice cores. Nominees must be U.S.-based scientists whose science relies on the analysis of ice or firn cores. The ICWG is one of two working groups of the IDP Science Advisory Board (SAB). The primary purpose of the ICWG is to provide advice and input on scientific issues pertaining to ice cores to the SAB and to the IDP. ICWG members typically serve for five years, participate in the annual ICWG online meeting, and collaborate remotely throughout the year as needed.

Please send nominations and expressions of interest to icedrill@dartmouth.edu by November 10, 2025.

Summer 2025 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available

The Summer 2025 update of NSF Ice Drilling Program (IDP) activities is now available at: 
https://icedrill.org/icebits/2025-summer

Topics:

  • IDP Gears Up for the Antarctic Season
  • Successful School of Ice at Dartmouth College
  • Arctic Field Season Update
  • 2025-2035 Long Range Science and Long Range Drilling Technology Plans Updated
  • Requesting Field Support
  • Ice Drilling Technology Documents
  • Acknowledgment of IDP in Publications

To view the newsletter, please go to:
https://icedrill.org/icebits/2025-summer

2025-2035 Long Range Science and Long Range Drilling Technology Plans Updated

The NSF Ice Drilling Program (IDP), in collaboration with its Science Advisory Board and with input from the research community, updated the Long Range Science Plan. This plan aims to articulate goals and make recommendations for the direction of U.S. ice coring and drilling science across a wide variety of areas of scientific inquiry and to provide recommendations for the development of drilling technology, infrastructure, and logistical support necessary to enable the science. A companion document, the Long Range Drilling Technology Plan, provides details about drills available through IDP. Both plans are revisited and revised as appropriate each spring. The Long Range Science Plan is available at https://icedrill.org/long-range-science-plan. The Long Range Drilling Technology Plan is available at https://icedrill.org/long-range-drilling-technology-plan.

If you envision the need for ice drilling for your project in the coming decade, please make sure that the high-level articulation of your science is captured in the Long Range Science Plan. If it isn’t, send several sentences to IceDrill@Dartmouth.edu describing the science driver and the envisioned field date and location for your project so that your plans are voiced in this planning document.

Spring 2025 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available

The Spring 2025 update of NSF Ice Drilling Program (IDP) activities is now available at: 
https://icedrill.org/icebits/2025-spring 

Topics:

  • 2025 Spring/Summer Fieldwork
  • Successful 2025 Technical Assistance Board Meeting Held in Madison
  • Science Advisory Board 2025 Meeting
  • Englacial and Subglacial Access Working Group 2025 Meeting
  • Ice Core Working Group 2025 Meeting
  • Ice Drilling Support for NSF Polar Proposals

To view the newsletter, please go to:
https://icedrill.org/icebits/2025-spring 

** REMINDER ** Request for Community Input - DRAFT 2025 Long Range Science Plan

Each year in the spring, the U.S. National Science Foundation Ice Drilling Program (IDP) works with its Science Advisory Board and the research community to update the 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 Long Range Drilling Technology Plan. The plans provide the basis for multi‐annual planning for the actions and drill development projects of IDP and others, and the plans give the funding agencies advance notice of upcoming community science needs.

If you 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 Long Range Science Plan!

Please read through the draft Long Range Science Plan and send corrections, updates, or additions to Icedrill@Dartmouth.edu at your earliest convenience and before May 23, 2025.

To download the working draft, visit:
https://icedrill.org/long-range-science-plan   

Instructions for sending corrections/updates/comments:

  • Write your corrections/updates/comments in your own Word document that you create
  • For each correction/update/comment, please reference the appropriate line number in the draft Long Range Science Plan where the correction/update is needed
  • Email the Word document to Icedrill@Dartmouth.edu before May 23, 2025

Submission deadline: At your earliest convenience and before May 23, 2025

Request for Community Input - DRAFT 2025 Long Range Science Plan

Each year in the spring, the U.S. National Science Foundation Ice Drilling Program (IDP) works with its Science Advisory Board and the research community to update the 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 Long Range Drilling Technology Plan. The plans provide the basis for multi‐annual planning for the actions and drill development projects of IDP and others, and the plans give the funding agencies advance notice of upcoming community science needs.

If you 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 Long Range Science Plan!

Please read through the draft Long Range Science Plan and send corrections, updates, or additions to Icedrill@Dartmouth.edu at your earliest convenience and before May 23, 2025.

To download the working draft, visit:
https://icedrill.org/long-range-science-plan   

Instructions for sending corrections/updates/comments:

  • Write your corrections/updates/comments in your own Word document that you create
  • For each correction/update/comment, please reference the appropriate line number in the draft Long Range Science Plan where the correction/update is needed
  • Email the Word document to Icedrill@Dartmouth.edu before May 23, 2025

Submission deadline: At your earliest convenience and before May 23, 2025

Winter 2024-2025 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available

The Winter 2024-2025 update of NSF Ice Drilling Program (IDP) activities is now available at: 
https://icedrill.org/icebits/2024-2025-winter 

Topics:

  • Blue Ice Core Quality Feasibility Study
  • IDP Completes Support of 2024-2025 Antarctic Field Season
  • Ice Drilling Support for NSF Polar Proposals

To view the newsletter, please go to:
https://icedrill.org/icebits/2024-2025-winter 

2025 School of Ice

Applications for the School of Ice (SOI) professional development workshop, designed for college faculty and high school teachers teaching advanced science courses, are now open. Dive into paleoclimate evidence and work hands-on with data from ice cores to enhance your Earth and environmental courses. Apply here: https://forms.gle/DP7Gx3JKtLqd9rEg6  

SOI will take place at Dartmouth in Hanover, NH, from June 23 to 26, 2025. 

Please share this announcement with eligible colleagues. If you have questions, please contact Louise T. Huffman at louise.t.huffman@dartmouth.edu. 

Learn more about SOI at https://icedrill-education.org/school-of-ice/.

Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions

The NSF Ice Drilling Program (IDP) will hold the AGU Town Hall on Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions on Wednesday, 11 December 2024, from 18:00 - 19:00 Eastern Standard Time (EST) in 202 A (Convention Center). We hope to see you there!

Abstract: Ice sheets, glaciers, and the underlying bedrock, sediment and permafrost hold crucial evidence of past climate, ice sheet dynamics, 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 brief updates from IDP, ICECReW, COLDEX, GreenDrill, Hercules Dome, and RAID. Opportunities for community involvement will be showcased, and input from the audience will be solicited.

Date: Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Time: 18:00 - 19:00 Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Location: 202 A (Convention Center)
Moderator: Mary R Albert, Dartmouth College
AGU meeting website: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/meetingapp.cgi/Session/227487