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Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions - AGU Town Hall
Colleagues,
Does your science require ice cores, access holes through glaciers / ice sheets, or ocean sediment cores? Everyone is invited to come to the AGU San Francisco Town Hall meeting to hear interdisciplinary planning updates and to learn how to get involved in science planning for future endeavors:
Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions
Wednesday Dec 15, 2010 at 12:30-1:30
Moscone 3005
Ice sheets and ocean sediments hold important evidence on past cryosphere-ocean-atmosphere systems that are key to understanding current climate change. The need for national and international collaboration on both the science and logistics for scientific drilling in these remote regions requires strategic coordination between science, technology, and logistics, along with proposal pressure from the research community. This town hall will report on recent planning by the IDPO/IDDO, IPICS, ANDRILL, IODP, SCAR-ACE, SHALDRIL, and WAIS initiatives, and will provide time to discuss current opportunities for community involvement in long-term interdisciplinary planning.
See you there!
Mary
Mary R. Albert, Ph.D.
Professor of Engineering
Executive Director, Ice Drilling Program Office
Thayer School of Engineering
8000 Cummings Hall
Dartmouth
Hanover, N.H. 03755
tel: 603-646-0277
email: mary.r.albert@dartmouth.edu
2010 Fall Quarterly Update of IDPO and IDDO Activities Now Available
The Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) announces that the 2010 fall quarterly update of IDPO and Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO) activities is available at:
https://icedrill.org/icebits
Topics include:
- IDPO and ANDRILL Town Hall Meeting at AGU
- National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Outreach
- Field Support to Antarctic Projects
- Replicate Coring System
- Intermediate Drill
- Requesting Ice Drilling Support
To download the newsletter, please go to:
https://icedrill.org/icebits
2010 Fall AGU Town Hall Meeting - Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions
IDPO is partnering with ANDRILL to hold a town hall meeting at the 2010 Fall AGU Meeting entitled "Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions". Presenters at this meeting will report on recent planning by the IDPO/IDDO, IPICS, ANDRILL, IODP, SCAR-ACE, SHALDRIL, and WAIS initiatives, and will provide time to discuss current opportunities for community involvement in long-term interdisciplinary planning for coring and drilling, including access to resultant boreholes. The workshop is on Wednesday, December 15 from 12:30-1:30. Please check the 2010 Fall AGU Meeting web site for more information (http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm10/).
2010 Summer Quarterly Update of IDPO and IDDO Activities Now Available
The Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) announces that the 2010 summer quarterly update of IDPO and Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO) activities is available at:
https://icedrill.org/icebits
Topics include:
- Long Range Integrated Planning
- Planning Improvements to Agile Drilling
- Planning for New Capability
- Drilling Shallow Cores
- WAIS Divide Deep Ice Core
- Requesting Ice Drilling Support
To download the newsletter, please go to:
https://icedrill.org/icebits
2010 Spring Quarterly Update of IDPO and IDDO Activities Now Available
The Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) announces that the 2010 spring quarterly update of IDPO and Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO) activities is available at:
https://icedrill.org/icebits
Topics include:
- Draft Long Range Science Plan
- Update of Field Drilling Support (January - March 2010)
- Development Highlights (January - March 2010)
- Requesting Ice Drilling Support
To download the newsletter, please go to:
https://icedrill.org/icebits
Draft Long Range Science Plan: Request for Input
We want to bring your attention to the updated Draft Long Range Science Plan for ice coring and drilling produced by IDPO and the Science Advisory Board (SAB). We are making this Draft available on our website (see link below) to solicit community input on the Long Range Science Plan for the ice coring and drilling community. This document is meant to be the forward planning path for our sciences. We encourage everyone to review the document and send comments, questions, additions, etc to icedrill@dartmouth.edu. This is your chance to have your say about the future of ice drilling science. On June 1, 2010, we will incorporate the information we receive and produce the final 2010 Long Range Science Plan. This plan will be revisited and revised as appropriate each spring. We thank you in advance for your input.
Ice Drilling/Coring Support for NSF Antarctic Research Solicitation
News from the Ice Drilling Program Office:
The NSF Antarctic Research (Solicitation 10-543) proposal deadline is May 25, 2010.
As a reminder, if your proposal requires any kind of ice drilling or ice coring support from the IDPO/Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO) you need to download the Field Project Requirement Form (www.icedrill.org/scientists/scientists.shtml) and submit it to IDPO/IDDO via icedrill@dartmouth.edu no later than April 13, 2010.
Once the IDPO/IDDO receives your Field Project Requirement Form we will provide you with a cost estimate and a letter of support that MUST be included with your NSF proposal. You should also notify your relevant NSF Program Manager that your proposal requires support from the IDPO/IDDO.
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NSF Antarctic Research Solicitation:
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?WT.z_pims_id=5519&ods_key=nsf10543
Field Project Requirement Form:
www.icedrill.org/scientists/scientists.shtml
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Seeking Scientist Input on Outreach Needs
Dear All,
As you know, the Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) was established to coordinate long-term and short-term planning in collaboration with the greater US and international ice science community, and to be the principle supplier of ice drilling and ice coring support and expertise for NSF-funded research; www.icedrill.org . IDPO is in the process of developing its education and outreach efforts. As Education Program Manager, I'd love to know how we can best make use of my expertise in formal and informal education and save you time in conducting outreach! One of our early targets is to create quality turn-key presentation materials and associated activities for you to use in your outreach to teachers and schools. We can also help coordinate that and work with your teacher or informal educator colleagues. To help guide this development or to suggest alternative ideas, please complete the attached questionnaire, and return the file to me at your earliest convenience, preferably by February 15th.
With appreciation,
Linda Morris
IDPO Education Program Manager
linda.m.morris@dartmouth.edu
Ice Drilling Program Office Request for Input: 5-year Science Plan
A draft version of the U.S. 5-year Science Plan outlining ice drilling and coring research has been posted to the website at https://icedrill.org.
Please look it over and send updates or recommended edits to IceDrill@Dartmouth.edu now or before June 8. This plan will articulate the science driving planning of U.S. ice coring and drilling technology development and maintenance and will be updated yearly.
Thanks for your input!
Mary, Mark, and Charlie
News from the newly-formed U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office
1. Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) and Ice Drilling Design and Operations group (IDDO)
2. Call for members for Senior Advisory Board of IDPO
3. Call for U. S. ice drilling project white papers
1. Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) and Ice Drilling Design and Operations group (IDDO)
The U.S. Ice Drilling Program comprises scientists seeking to better understand evidence of the past archived in and under polar ice sheets and high-latitude glaciers, along with drillers who enable the science. Discoveries about changes in climate and the environment, using evidence from glaciers and ice sheets, inform environmental policy. The Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) is funded as a cooperative agreement with NSF to coordinate long-term and short-term planning for the greater US ice science community, and to oversee the Ice Drilling Design and Operations group (IDDO), to ensure that the drilling technology will be there when needed by the science. https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=112909&org=OPP&from=news
Cooperative Agreements with Dartmouth College, University of Wisconsin and University of New Hampshire established the collaborative IDPO. A Cooperative Agreement was also signed with University of Wisconsin for the establishment of the IDDO. We will be releasing our web page in early April. In the meantime you may contact the IDPO by sending an email to icedrill(at)Dartmouth(dot)edu (Please put "Icedrill" in the subject line of the email to help eliminate spam).
2. Call for members for Senior Advisory Board of IDPO
The IDPO is currently seeking members from the U.S. ice drilling community to serve on its Senior Advisory Board (SAB). The IPO will work closely with the SAB (and with other groups, organizations, and individuals) to develop comprehensive long term and short term science plans for the US research community. SAB members should have extensive experience in an area of science that requires ice coring or drilling. The plans will be used to guide development of coring and drilling equipment. To nominate yourself or someone else for the SAB, please contact Ed Brook at brooke(at)geo(dot)oregonstate(dot) edu. Nominations are needed by March 8, 2009.
3. Call for U. S. ice coring and drilling project white papers
The initial plans developed by IDPO will factor in existing white papers that have been developed by the ice coring and drilling communities. If your research community has white papers, documents or plans that you intend to pursue in the near-term or long term future, please send a copy to: Icedrill(at)Dartmouth(dot)edu. In your email, please identify the person associated with each white paper who will serve as the point of contact for IDPO.
Thanks for your time. We look forward to working with you!
Mary Albert
Executive Director, IDPO
Charlie Bentley
Director of Drilling Technology, IDPO
Mark Twickler
Director of Communications, IDPO