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Information Solicitation
U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office
National Science Foundation
Office of Polar Programs

Nominations Requested by: Sunday, 8 March 2009

Dear Colleague,

The newly-formed U. S. Ice Drilling Program Office seeks your input!

  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

  4. 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.
    http://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).

  1. 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.

  2. 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