National Ice Core Laboratory Science Management Office
Links
Below you will find links to sites dealing directly with ice cores.
If you would like to go to an excellent links page about polar regions, please visit the Byrd Polar Research Center's Polar Pointers.
U.S. Antarctic Program Data Coordination Center - The U.S. Antarctic Program Data Coordination Center (USAP-DCC) is funded by the NSF Office of Polar Programs to coordinate the management of data collected by U.S. funded scientists in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. The USAP-DCC also operates as the U.S.'s National Antarctic Data Center in the SCAR/COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management. The goals of the USAP-DCC are to help scientists find Antarctic scientific data of interest and to submit their data for curation and long term preservation in accordance with their obligations under the NSF Office of Polar Programs
NOAA Paleoclimatology Program - Helps the World share scientific data and information related to climate system variability and predictability
National Geophysical Data Center - Manages environmental data in the fields of marine geology and
geophysics, paleoclimatology, solar-terrestrial physics, solid earth
geophysics, and glaciology (snow and ice)
The Global Change Master Directory - A comprehensive source of information about satellite and in situ
Earth science data, with broad coverage of the atmosphere,
hydrosphere, oceans, solid earth, and biosphere
The following are some links to educational sites about ice cores, glaciers and climate change.
Please let us know if you would like us to add your link. niclsmo.web@unh.edu
Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) K-12 Education Resources - K-12 students and teachers are invited to explore the many learning and teaching resources available from CReSIS K-12 education page. You will find lesson ideas, maps, images, and updates about the research our team is doing. Opportunities for talks by scientists and other resources for science teachers will be also be found here.
ANTARCTICA the farthest place close to home - These resources are based on curriculum materials developed by Education Development Center, Inc.
and Rice University with funding support from the Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education
in the Directorate of Education and Human Resources and the Office of Polar Programs
of the National Science Foundation.
Classroom Antarctica - Enjoy using the ideas in Classroom Antarctica to stimulate your students' interest in real world applications for Science, Mathematics and
Studies of Society and Environment. These activities can be used to enhance writing, literature, art, team building and creative thinking skills in
your students as well. Put your students in the picture! Classroom Antarctica is aimed at Upper Primary and Lower Secondary levels (Years 5 to
8). Unit 6 has an ice core activity.
Climate Ark - The Premier Climate Change Portal/Search Engine
Live From Antarctica 2 - This is a "Passport To Knowledge" (PTK) project, supported
in part by the National Science Foundation and the Office of Polar
Programs, with satellite telecommunications made possible by NASA's ACTS Satellite Experiments Program. The program used "multi-media"
resources (live telecasts, on-line resources, and hands-on print
curriculum resources) to connect the classroom to the real world and to
fulfill PTK's mission to place science in culture's mainstream. The
on-line and live video portions of the field trip are partially
underwritten by NASA and NSF and are free to educators.
Mountain of Ice - NOVA follows a group of explorers and scientists as they scale Vinson Massif, Antarctica's highest peak, collecting snowfall data along the way to help determine Antarctic ice flow. Teacher's Guide
Deciphering Mysteries of Past Climate From Antarctic Ice Cores - The history of the world's climate is recorded in the layers of sediment that accumulated over thousands of years in ice and rock. Paleoclimatologists are studying sediment encapsulated in deep Antarctic ice to answer a few perplexing questions about the conditions that prevailed
during the ice ages.
Into the Arctic - Information and Educational Activities for Studying Climate.
Willi Dansgaard: Frozen Annals - Greenland Ice Sheet Research - Willi Dansgaard has played a pivotal role in developing ice core research into one of the most powerful tools in present studies of past climate changes. In this book (which is available as a FREE pdf download), Willi Dansgaard gives his personal perspective on the history of ice core research from the pioneering years in the early 1950's until the successful termination of the NorthGRIP (Greenland) ice coring in 2004.
Chester C. Langway, Jr: The History of Early Polar Ice Cores - This report was prepared by Dr. Chester C. Langway, Jr., a former
researcher at the Snow, Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment
(SIPRE), Wilmette, IL, and the Cold Regions Research and Engineering
Laboratory (CRREL), Hanover, NH, (1956–1975) and a former faculty
member at the University at Buffalo (State University of New York) (1975–
1994). During his years at SIPRE and CRREL, he participated in and was
responsible for developing the SIPRE/CRREL field and laboratory ice core
research program, the core sample storage responsibilities, and the
scientific redistribution of ice core samples for external studies. During his
last nine years at CRREL he also served as Chief, Snow and Ice Research
Branch.
Portal to Polar Links - During the Antarctic Meteorological Observation, Modelling, and Forecasting Workshop (Roma, Italy, 26-28 June 2007) was born the idea of a website collecting the links to Arctic and Antarctic sites. This website makes this function. The sites have been divided in categories, and, inside them, in nationality to which they belong. Maintained by the Italian Antarctic Research Program.
The following are links to institutional sites. If you know of
other sites please let us know so we can add them
niclsmo.web@unh.edu
Antarctic Automatic Weather Stations Project at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. - The National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs automatic weather station project places automatic weather station (AWS) units in remote areas of Antarctica in support of meteorological research and operations. The AWS data are collected by the ARGOS Data Collection System on board the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) series of polar-orbiting satellites.
U.S. Ice Drilling Program - The Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) and the Ice Drilling Design and Operations group (IDDO) were established by the National Science Foundation (NSF) effective October 2008 to coordinate long-term and short-term planning in collaboration with the greater US ice science community, and to be the principle supplier of ice drilling and ice coring support and expertise for NSF-funded research.
NOAA South Pole Observatory -- South Pole, Antarctica - Maintains monitoring programs in greenhouse and other trace gases, atmospheric aerosols, solar radiation variability, stratospheric
ozone and meteorological parameters
Climate and Environmental Physics - A research division of the Physics Institute of the University of
Bern, devoted to the investigation of physical processes in the climate and environmental system.
Norsk Polarinstitutt (Norwegian Polar Institute) - Norway's principal institution for research, environmental
monitoring and mapping in the Norwegian polar regions. The Institute
advises the authorities on environmental issues in the Arctic,
Antarctic and Barents region.
Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management. - JCADM is a joint committee of SCAR and the Council of Managers of
National Antarctic Programmes (COMNAP). Its purpose is to advise SCAR
and COMNAP on the management of Antarctic data. One of its key roles
is to advise on the development of the Antarctic Data Management
System including the recruitment of National Antarctic Data Centres
(NADCs) and the encouragement of scientists to submit metadata to NADCs.
Arctic Theme - The Arctic Theme page is sponsored by NOAA's Arctic Research Program and has
been favorably reviewed by Science Magazine, Scientific American,
Yahoo, USA Today, etc. A rich and comprehensive resource web site
focused on the Arctic.
World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) - The WGMS collects standardised observations on changes in mass, volume, area and length of glaciers with time (glacier fluctuations), as well as statistical information on the distribution of perennial surface ice in space (glacier inventories).
The Antarctic Connection - Provides educational and informative material as well as
conscienciously chosen fun and entertaining products.
Raytheon Polar Services Company - Raytheon Polar Services was formed to specifically meet the needs of the NSF's Office of Polar Programs.
CH2M HILL Polar Services (CPS) - CH2M HILL Polar Services (CPS) is the National Science Foundation's Arctic Logistics Contractor. CPS provides a wide variety of services to NSF-funded researchers working in Arctic regions, including field camps and gear, communications, engineering, air charters, and cargo movement.
US Global Change Research Information - The US Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO) provides access to data and information on climate change research, adaptation/mitigation
strategies and technologies, and global change-related educational resources on behalf of the various US Federal Agencies that are involved in the
US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
The following are links to ice coring projects. If you know of
other sites please let us know so we can add them
niclsmo.web@unh.edu
U.S. Ice Drilling Program - The U.S. Ice Drilling Program comprises scientists seeking to better understand evidence of the past archived in polar ice sheets and high-latitude glaciers, along with drillers who enable the science. Polar ice sheets and high-altitude glaciers are unique natural archives containing high-resolution climate data including samples of abrupt change, ancient air, and ancient life. Discoveries about changes in climate and the environment, using evidence from glaciers and ice sheets, inform environmental policy. The National Science Foundation has recently formed the Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) to coordinate long-term and short-term planning for the greater US ice science community, and to oversee the Ice Drill Design and Operations Group (IDDO), to ensure that the drilling technology will be there when the science needs it.
West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core Project (WAIS Divide) - WAIS Divide is a United States deep ice coring project in West Antarctica funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is the second component to the larger WAISCORES initiative. The purpose of the WAIS Divide project is to collect a deep ice core from the flow divide in central West Antarctica in order to develop a unique series of interrelated climate, ice dynamics, and biologic records focused on understanding interactions among global earth systems. The WAIS Divide ice core will provide Antarctic records of environmental change with the highest possible time resolution for the last ~100,000 years and will be the Southern Hemisphere equivalent of the Greenland GISP2, GRIP, and North GRIP ice cores.
North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) - The North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) is an international ice core research project aimed at retrieving an ice core from Northwest Greenland reaching back through the previous interglacial, the Eemian. The project logistics is managed by the Centre for Ice and Climate, Denmark, and the air support is carried out by US ski equipped Hercules managed through the US Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation.
International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences (IPICS) - With the completion of major projects in Greenland and Antarctica over the last 15 years, the international ice coring community is planning for the next several decades. The costs and scope of future work create the need for coordinated international collaboration. Developing this international collaboration is the charge of IPICS, the International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences, a planning group currently composed of ice core scientists, engineers, and drillers from 18 nations.
Norwegian-U.S. Scientific Traverse of East Antarctica - A massive, largely unexplored region, the East Antarctic ice sheet looms large in the global climate system, yet relatively little is known about its climate variability or the contribution it makes to sea level changes. The field expedition for this international partnership involves scientific investigations along two overland traverses in East Antarctica: one going from the Norwegian Troll Station to the United States South Pole Station in 2007-2008; and a return traverse by a different route in 2008-2009. This project will investigate climate change in East Antarctica.
Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 - Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two (GISP2) penetrated through the ice sheet and 1.55 meters into bedrock recovering an ice core 3053.44 meters in depth, the deepest ice core recovered in the world at the time. This website is the portal to the valuable information obtained during the drilling program.
European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) - EPICA is a multinational European project for deep ice core drilling in Antarctica. Its main objective is to obtain full documentation of the climatic and atmospheric record archived in Antarctic ice by drilling and analyzing two ice cores and comparing these with their Greenland counterparts.
North Greenland Ice core Project (NGRIP) - NGRIP is a multinational research program, funded by participating
institutions in Germany, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Belgium,
Iceland and the US. Primary sponsor is the Danish Research Council.
The research objective to retrieve and analyze a 3080 m long ice core
drilled through the Greenland ice sheet.
Greenland Icecore Project (GRIP) - GRIP has been a multinational European research project,
organized through the European Science Foundation (ESF). GRIP successfully
drilled a 3028 meter ice core to the bed of the Greenland ice sheet at Summit.
Dome Fuji - The Japanese deep ice coring project at Dome Fuji, Antarctica
National Ice Core Laboratory Science Management Office
National Ice Core Laboratory-Science Management Office (NICL-SMO)
Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire
8 College Road, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA Tel: (603) 862-1991, Fax: (603) 862-2124, Email: nicl.smo at unh.edu
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. ANT-0635515. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
