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Spring 2012 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available
The Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) announces that the Spring 2012 quarterly update of IDPO and Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO) activities is available at:
https://icedrill.org/icebits
Topics include:
- 2011-2012 Antarctic Field Season Successfully Completed
- DISC Drill Replicate Coring Test
- Badger-Eclipse Drill Utilized for Driller Training
- New Hand Auger Prototype Tested
- Rapid Access Drill Feasibility
- Science Advisory Board Working Groups
- Educational Outreach
- Drilling Support to Science Projects
- U.S. Ice Drilling Program Media Guide
- Requesting Ice Drilling Support
To download the newsletter, please go to:
https://icedrill.org/icebits
Subglacial/Borehole Logging Working Groups: Call for Participants
The Science Advisory Board (SAB) of the NSF-funded Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO; https://icedrill.org) wants to ensure it captures the complete breadth of community input for on-going and future needs of the ice drilling science community. The SAB seeks to form two new working groups; each group will organize by teleconferences and webinars to update the community about progress in ice drilling foci and receive input on current community concerns and future needs.
The two working groups are:
(1) Working Group on Subglacial Access Drilling (WGSAD) that will represent the broad range of scientists interested in gaining data from beneath glaciers and ice sheets. The breadth of fields includes (but is not limited to) basement and bedrock geology, Cenozoic sedimentary basins, till, heat flow, exposure dating, stream hydrology (englacial, subglacial), geochemistry, limnology, oceanography, microbiology, etc. Ross Powell, currently on the SAB, will initially lead the group. Other standing SAB members currently representing these communities are Jill Mikucki for microbiology, and Howard Conway for exposure dating.
(2) Working Group on Borehole Logging (WGBL) that will represent the broad range of scientists interested in deploying logging instruments in glaciers and ice sheets. Ryan Bay and Gary Clow, who are both currently on the SAB, will initially lead the group.
If you are interested in contributing to either of these working groups and advising on future paths the U.S. ice drilling program should take, please notify Joseph Souney of IDPO at joseph.souney@unh.edu by May 18.
Current Outreach Opportunities Needing Your Support
There have been multiple requests for IDPO's new "videoconference with a classroom" activity, which offers you an opportunity to share your research within a pre-scripted presentation with groups of high school students across the US. This involves a small time commitment on your part, working with IPDO Education Program Manager Linda Morris to prepare and schedule the event, but has long-term impact on the teachers and students you touch. An example recording is available for those who express interest, showing how these events transpire.
Please consider acting as a scientist mentor. Email Linda Morris to find out more today! linda.m.morris@dartmouth.edu
Also, for information and ideas about partnering with IDPO for broader impacts, please visit:
https://icedrill.org/scientists/outreach_support.shtml
19-April Deadline for Requesting Ice Drilling Support for NSF Antarctic Proposals
The 2012 Antarctic Research Solicitation (12-539) deadline is May 31, 2012. As a reminder, if your proposal requires any kind of ice drilling or ice coring support from the IDDO group at the University of Wisconsin you must contact icedrill@dartmouth.edu at least 6 weeks prior to the Antarctic Research Solicitation (12-539) deadline, in this case by April 19.
For more information about requesting ice drilling support, please visit:
https://icedrill.org/scientists/scientists.shtml
For information and ideas about partnering with IDPO for broader impacts, please visit:
https://icedrill.org/scientists/outreach_support.shtml
For information about the 2012 Antarctic Research Solicitation (12-539) itself, visit:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12539/nsf12539.htm
Winter 2011-12 Ice Bits Newsletter Now Available
The Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) announces that the Winter 2011-12 quarterly update of IDPO and Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO) activities is available at:
https://icedrill.org/icebits
Topics include:
- Drilling Completed of the WAIS Divide Main Ice Core
- Drilling Completed at Taylor Glacier, Antarctica for Study of Ancient Atmospheres
- Replicate Coring System
- Rapid Access Ice Drill (RAID)
- Intermediate-Depth Drill
- Educational Outreach
- Drilling Support to Science Projects
- Requesting Ice Drilling Support
To download the newsletter, please go to:
https://icedrill.org/icebits
Global and Regional Climate Signals from Ice Cores, 2012 SCAR Open Science Conference :: 16-19 July 2012, Portland, OR
Global and Regional Climate Signals from Ice Cores
2012 SCAR Open Science Conference
16-19 July 2012
Portland, OR
Ice cores provide information about past climate and environmental conditions on time scales from decades to hundreds of millennia, and direct records of the composition of the atmosphere. As such, they are cornerstones of global change research. For example, ice cores play a central role in showing how closely climate and greenhouse gas concentrations were linked in the past, and in demonstrating that very abrupt climate switches can occur. In this session, we invite contributions to our understanding of regional and global climate from Antarctic cores, on all time and spatial scales. Presentations on methods of climate reconstruction and presentations that address the relationship of Antarctic climate with global or large scale regional climate are also welcome.
Meeting Web Site: http://scar2012.geol.pdx.edu/
Abstract Submission: http://www.scar.org/abstracts/submit.html (requires making an account first)
Abstract Deadline: February 15, 2012
Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions :: AGU Town Hall Meeting
IDPO is organizing a Town Hall meeting at the 2011 Fall AGU Meeting entitled "Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions". ANDRILL and SCAR-ACE are co-sponsors of the event. Presenters at this meeting will report on recent planning by the IDPO/IDDO, IPICS, ANDRILL, IODP, SCAR-ACE, SHALDRIL, WAIS, and Arctic Ocean drilling initiatives, and will provide time to discuss current opportunities for community involvement in long-term interdisciplinary planning. The workshop is on Thursday, December 8 room 12:30 to 1:30 PM in the Moscone West, Room 2006. Please check the 2011 Fall AGU Meeting web site for more information.
2011 Fall Quarterly Update of IDPO and IDDO Activities Now Available
The Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) announces that the 2011 fall quarterly update of IDPO and Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO) activities is available at:
https://icedrill.org/icebits
Topics include:
- Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions Town Hall Meeting
- Field Support to Antarctic Projects
- Intermediate-Depth Drill
- Intermediate-Depth Logging Winch
- Rapid Access Ice Drill (RAID)
- Replicate Coring System
- Follow Us on Twitter
- Requesting Ice Drilling Support
To download the newsletter, please go to:
https://icedrill.org/icebits
2011 Summer Quarterly Update of IDPO and IDDO Activities Now Available
The Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) announces that the 2011 summer quarterly update of IDPO and Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO) activities is available at:
https://icedrill.org/icebits
Topics include:
- Overview of IDPO and IDDO Activities During the Quarter
- Highlight: Multidisciplinary Science on the Greenland Ice Sheet is Enabled by Agile Ice Core Drills
- Highlight: Interdisciplinary Community Workshop Examines the Future for Ice Coring and Drilling
- Education and Outreach: Outreach Support for U.S. Scientists
- IDDO Career Opportunity: Mechanical Engineer(s) Needed!
- IPICS 2012 Open Science Conference
- Long Range Science Plan 2011-2021 and Long Range Drilling Technology Plan
- 2011 Technical Advisory Board Meeting
- Requesting Ice Drilling Support
To download the newsletter, please go to:
https://icedrill.org/icebits
IPICS First Open Science Conference :: 1-5 October 2012, Giens, France
The first Open Science Conference of the International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences (IPICS) will be held from 1-5 October 2012 at the beautiful setting of the Belembra club, situated on the border of the Mediterranean Sea in one of the best spots of the French Côte d'Azur.
The objective of the conference is to present, discuss and put into perspective the most recent results of past and current ice core drilling projects (deep drillings such as EPICA, WAIS Divide, NEEM, TALDICE,... but also shallow drillings) in Antarctica and Greenland. Other ice core drilling projects conducted in non-polar glaciers or in other Arctic sites are also welcome. The four IPICS white papers will structure the conference programme. Gathering mostly ice core scientists, the conference expects to also attract researchers working on other paleoclimate archives as well as paleoclimate modelers and glaciologists.
For more information, please visit the conference web site at:
http://www.ipics2012.org/