Overview
The Ice Core Working Group (ICWG) is an established group of scientists who investigate scientific issues pertaining to ice cores. Members are selected from the scientific community and their role consists of providing guidance to the NSF on topics related to sample access, distribution, inventory, policy issues, operation and maintenance of the National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL), and future directions for ice core research.
NICL-SMO assists the ICWG in defining its existing policies and directions for NICL, which are reviewed on a yearly basis. To foster future directions in ice core research, NICL-SMO assists the ICWG in polling the scientific community, developing reports, planning workshops and plenary discussions.
| Discipline | Representative | Institution | |
| Chair | Karl Kreutz | University of Maine | karl.kreutz at maine.edu |
| Gases | Murat Aydin | University of California-Irvine | maydin at uci.edu |
| Physical Properties | Ian Baker | Dartmouth College | Ian.Baker at Dartmouth.edu |
| Borehole Logging | Ryan Bay | University of California-Berkeley | bay at berkely.edu |
| Biological | Brent Christner | Louisiana State University | Xner at lsu.edu |
| Surface Glaciology | Tom Neumann | NASA Goddard | thomas.neumann at nasa.gov |
| Ice Flow Dynamics | Erin Pettit | University of Alaska Fairbanks | pettit at gi.alaska.edu |
| Biogeochemistry | Mark Skidmore | Montana State University | skidmore at montana.edu |
| Isotopes | Eric Steig | University of Washington | steig at ess.washington.edu |
| At Large - WAIS Divide | Ken Taylor | Desert Research Institute | kendrick at dri.edi |
