News
The Spring 2010 In-Depth Newsletter is now available online at https://icecores.org/indepth/
In the Spring 2010 issue:
- PolarTREC Teacher Joins Hunt for Old Ice in Antarctica
- Jacquelyn Hams (PolarTREC Teacher)
- Eric Cravens: Farewell & Thanks!
- WAIS Divide Ice Core Images Now Available from AGDC
- Rob Bauer (Antarctic Glaciological Data Center)
- WAIS Divide Ice Core Update
- WAIS Divide Science Coordination Office
- Drilling for Old Ice
- NEEM Reaches Eemian and Approaches Bedrock
- Recently Funded Projects
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As you should be aware, the NSF/USGS Interagency Agreement for the operation of the National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL) will be expiring October 31, 2010. The USGS has assured NSF that they will work with NSF to ensure a smooth transition and the current plan is to extend the Agreement into FY 2011 with NSF assuming full costs of operations in November of 2010. The immediate priority are some infrastructure upgrades to the facility which are moving forward. Also in the transition continuity of the NICL staff is a high priority.
NSF plans to put out a Dear Colleague letter soon for the operation of the NICL facility. NSF would like to use this opportunity to develop plans for the future management of science and facilities important to the cyrospheric research community. The Dear Colleague letter will give the opportunity to centralize cryospheric research projects along with the operation of the National Ice Core Laboratory.
We will forward the Dear Colleague to this mailing list when it is released.
The Fall 2009 In-Depth Newsletter is now available online at https://icecores.org/indepth/
In the Fall 2009 issue:
- National Science Foundation and U. S. Geological Survey Decision about Future NICL Management
- International Greenland Ice Coring Effort Sets New Drilling Record in 2009
- Press Release 09-158, National Science Foundation
- Old Ice: Climate record from last 2.5 million years may sit at the surface of Allan Hills
- Peter Rejcek, The Antarctic Sun
- WAIS Divide Ice Core Update
- WAIS Divide Science Coordination Office
- Recently Funded Projects
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At the WAIS Divide meeting this fall, Eric Steig and Eric Saltzman are planning a short pre-meeting (on September 30th) to initiate discussion of an important question:
Where do we want to drill the next deep U.S. ice core? Put another way: Where do we want to take the DISC drill after we are done with WAIS Divide?
They would very much appreciate input on this, and volunteers to give brief talks making the case for their favorite location to drill next.
So far, suggestions include Hercules Dome and South Pole but there are obviously many other places that might be considered.
Now is the time to start planning, if we don't want a long hiatus between completion of WAIS Divide and the next deep drilling site.
Please contact the organizers with input and ideas.
Eric Steig < steig 'at' ess 'dot' washington.edu>
Eric Saltzman <esaltzma 'at' uci 'dot' edu>
The Spring 2009 In-Depth Newsletter is now available online at https://icecores.org/indepth/
In the Spring 2009 issue:
- Digging for Ancient Air at South Pole
- Todd Sowers (Penn State) and Murat Aydin (University of California-Irvine)
- "How Was Antarctica?"
- Anais Orsi (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
- New Ice Drilling Agreements for NSF-Funded Research
- Mary Albert, Charles Bentley, Mark Twickler (IDPO)
- WAIS Divide Season Two A Success
- WAIS Divide Science Coordination Office
- NICL Use and Accessing Ice Cores
- Recently Funded Projects
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The Fall 2008 In-Depth Newsletter is now available online at https://icecores.org/indepth/
In the Fall 2008 issue:
- Uncovering Denali
- Eric Kelsey and Cameron Wake (University of New Hampshire)
- International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (ITASE) Synthesis Workshop
- Dan Dixon (University of Maine)
- Girls on Ice: Using "Immersion" to Teach "Fluency" in Science
- Erin Pettit (University of Alaska)
- USGS Intends to Continue NICL Operations
- Randy Schumann (USGS)
- Recently Funded Projects
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The Spring 2008 In-Depth Newsletter is now available online at https://icecores.org/indepth/
In the Spring 2008 issue:
- Polar Ice Coring and IGY 1957-58: An Interview with Dr. Anthony J. "Tony" Gow
- Joseph Souney (University of New Hampshire)
- Greenland Science and Education Week
- Martha Conklin (University of California-Merced) and Nanna Nyholm (U.S. Embassy Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Ice Cores and POLAR-PALOOZA Education and Outreach Tour
- Geoffrey Haines-Stiles (Passport to Knowledge)
- NEEM Update - Plans for Field Season 2008
- Joseph Souney (University of New Hampshire)
- WAIS Divide Ice Core Update
- Joseph Souney (University of New Hampshire)
- Recently Funded Projects
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After enduring months on the coldest, driest and windiest continent on Earth, researchers today closed out the inaugural season on an unprecedented, multi-year effort to retrieve the most detailed record of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere over the last 100,000 years.
Working as part of the National Science Foundation's West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS Divide) Ice Core Project, a team of scientists, engineers, technicians and students from multiple U.S. institutions have recovered a 580-meter (1,900-foot) ice core -- the first section of what is hoped to be a 3,465-meter (11,360-foot) column of ice detailing 100,000 years of Earth's climate history, including a precise year-by-year record of the last 40,000 years.
The Fall 2007 In-Depth Newsletter is now available online at https://icecores.org/indepth/
In the Fall 2007 issue:
- Volcanic Events in Greenland Ice Cores
- Jihong Cole-Dai and Alyson Lanciki (South Dakota State University)
- Borehole Optical Stratigraphy
- Ben Smith (University of Washington)
- POLAR-PALOOZA and Ice Core Science
- Geoffrey Haines-Stiles (Passport to Knowledge)
- WAIS Divide Ice Core Update
- Joseph Souney (University of New Hampshire)
- Recently Funded Projects
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The Spring 2007 In-Depth Newsletter is now available online at https://icecores.org/indepth/
In the Spring 2007 issue:
- International Polar Year 2007-2008
- West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS Divide) Ice Core Project
- International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences (IPICS)
- Greenland NEEM Deep Ice Core
- U.S. International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (U.S. ITASE)
- Norwegian/U.S. Scientific Traverse in East Antarctica
- Recently Funded Projects
We are interested in project stories and news from the ice coring community. Please contact us if you are interested in submitting a story or news item to In-Depth.