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Call for Nominations: Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office Seeks Senior Scientist
The Science Advisory Board (SAB) of the U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) is seeking a senior scientist to help guide the future direction for U.S. ice drilling activities. We are particularly interested in appointing someone who uses ice cores to study the chemistry of ancient atmospheres, but scientists with other areas of expertise will also be considered.
For additional details about the role of the SAB, including current members, tasks, and terms of reference, please visit: https://icedrill.org/about/sab.shtml
Please send nominations (or self-nomination) for the SAB with a short letter of interest to Joseph Souney of IDPO at joseph.souney@unh.edu by October 20, 2012.
Howard Conway
Chair, Science Advisory Board to the U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office
DRAFT 2012 Long Range Science Plan - Request for Community Input
It is that time of year again when we solicit the ice coring and drilling community for input and comments on the Long Range Science Plan. The draft 2012 Long Range Science Plan has been updated to reflect the outcomes from the 2012 Science Advisory Board (SAB) meeting. This document is meant to be the forward planning path for our sciences. Please take the time to review the working draft and send any additional input to icedrill@dartmouth.edu by June 8; IDPO will coordinate review of the input by the SAB for incorporation into the final document. As usual, this Plan will be revisited and revised as appropriate each spring.
To download the working draft, please visit:
https://icedrill.org/long-range-science-plan
We thank you in advance for your input.
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.
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.
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/
Deadlines for Ice Drilling Science Community Planning Workshop and Requesting Ice Drilling Support for NSF Antarctic Proposals
Several important deadlines are approaching that we want to bring to your attention:
1. Ice Drilling Science Community Planning Workshop hotel and registration deadlines
2. 2011 Antarctic Research Solicitation (11-532) deadline for requesting ice drilling support
1. Ice Drilling Science Community Planning Workshop hotel and registration deadlines
As a reminder, the Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) is sponsoring an interdisciplinary ice community workshop to identify future Arctic and Antarctic drilling/coring sites, the ice drilling technology that will be needed, and the timeline over the coming decade for conducting scientific endeavors important for advancing science on many frontiers. The workshop will be held at the Washington Dulles Marriott Suites Hotel in Herndon, VA, on April 15 and 16. All are invited to participate.
If you have an interest in attending the workshop and haven't registered and/or reserved a hotel room yet you need to do so quickly. The cut-off date for accepting hotel reservations into the workshop's room block is at 12:00 noon on April 1. The deadline for registering for the workshop is April 7.
Please make sure and register for the workshop even if you are from the area and will not be staying in a hotel so that we have a head count for the meeting room setup and lunch.
For more information about the workshop, please visit:
http://www.icedrill.org/science-planning-workshop-2011/
2. 2011 Antarctic Research Solicitation (11-532) deadline for Requesting Ice Drilling Support
The 2011 Antarctic Research Solicitation (11-532) deadline is June 6, 2011. As a reminder, if your proposal requires any kind of ice drilling or ice coring support from the Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO) group at the University of Wisconsin you must contact icedrill@dartmouth.edu at least 6 weeks prior to the Antarctic Research Solicitation (11-532) deadline, in this case by April 25.
For more information about requesting ice drilling support, please visit
https://icedrill.org/scientists/scientists.shtml .
Ice Drilling Science Community Planning Workshop - April 15 & 16, 2011
Scientific discoveries achieved from, within, and beneath the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets and temperate glaciers are critical to society today, but they are not achieved without significant advance planning. The Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) will sponsor an interdisciplinary ice community workshop to identify future Arctic and Antarctic drilling/coring sites, the ice drilling technology that will be needed, and the timeline over the coming decade for conducting scientific endeavors important for advancing science on many frontiers. This workshop will be held at the Washington Dulles Marriott Suites Hotel in Herndon, VA, on April 15 and 16. All are invited to participate.
** Please register for the meeting at http://icedrill.org/science-planning-workshop-2011/registration.shtml . For the latest information about the workshop, please visit the workshop's website at: http://icedrill.org/science-planning-workshop-2011/ .
Background Information: The current IDPO Long Range Science Plan for the ice coring and drilling community is available for download on https://icedrill.org; we update the plan every year in June. This plan drives the associated Long Range Drilling Technology Plan, available on the same site. Both plans drive the budget and our proposals for developing and maintaining ice coring and drilling technology for the research community. As explained in our recent EOS article (Albert et al, EOS Trans AGU, vol 91(39), 2010, p. 345-346), we encourage scientists to work with IDPO to forecast your science plans over the next decade -- this enables IDPO to really get the ball rolling on the ice drilling technology that will be needed to achieve your goals. Results from the workshop will be reflected in updates in the science descriptions, timeline, and planning matrices in the Long Range Science Plan and Long Range Drilling Technology Plan so that we can ensure that the drilling technology will be ready when needed by your science. We hope that you and your colleagues will join us in this planning.
Intermediate Drill Science Requirements
The IDPO Science Advisory Board identified in the IDPO Long Range Science Plan a priority need to acquire an intermediate-depth drill for the U.S. ice coring program that is sufficiently portable that it can be used for coring at a wide variety of sites with production drilling in two field seasons or less, and be able to retrieve core from depths of interest for a variety of science goals. From discussions with the research community and discussions with IDDO staff, IDPO proposes the attached science requirements for community comment or agreement.
Please look over the attached, and let us know whether you are in agreement with these requirements, and/or have any comments.
The draft science requirements can be downloaded at:
https://icedrill.org/equipment/foro-1650-drill
Please send an email with your comments to IceDrill@Dartmouth.edu. Comments received before Dec 22 will be most helpful, but we welcome comments at any time.
We are planning to have IDDO produce a plan for drill development and cost that will be ready by mid-spring.
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, glaciers, and the underlying bedrock, sediment and permafrost hold crucial evidence of past conditions, ice sheet dynamics, and cratonic geology. 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 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/).