Theme

As a follow-up to the eight previous ice drilling technology symposia held between 1974 and 2019, the 9th International Symposium on Ice Drilling Technology will take a comprehensive look at the latest innovations in ice drilling technology, including but not limited to mechanical and thermal drilling, borehole logging, subglacial sampling, core logging and handling, and field logistics. New techniques rapidly evolve within ice drills, and include rapid access drills, replicate coring systems, and autonomous probes. This symposium presents a timely opportunity to show recent advances in our knowledge and technological capabilities in ice drilling technology.

Suggested topics 

• Mechanical Ice Drilling, Development within shallow, intermediate, and deep drills
• Hot Water Drilling, Development within shallow, intermediate, and deep systems
• Thermal Ice Drilling, Hot points techniques, and coring abilities
• Rapid Access Ice Drilling, Development of technologies for rapid access drilling
• Sampling and Clean Technologies, Methods for exploration of the subglacial environment
• Probes use of ice drills in polar and extraterrestrial investigations
• Complicated conditions like high altitude drilling, warm ice, firn aquifer layers, brittle ice, ice streams, and dirty ice
• Special Aspects, Ice drilling technology, including drilling fluids, control systems, surface and auxiliary equipment, drill cables, and hoses
• Directional Drilling, Replicate sampling methods and tools
• Subglacial drilling and sampling Technologies for coring and sampling subglacial bedrock and sediments
• Ice Core Handling, Logging, and Handling Ice Cores
• Borehole logging and in-situ observatories for drill support and science
• Logistics Drill camp operations and future projects
• New Challenges, Future development of ice drilling technology, and unconventional approaches

We will also accept proposals for sessions not listed above before the Second Circular. Contact: 9th_IDT@awi.de

Program

The symposium will include oral and poster sessions and will provide a friendly and intellectually stimulating environment to facilitate face-to-face interactions and networking. Additional activities will include an opening reception, a banquet dinner, and a mid-symposium afternoon excursion.

Deadlines 

Abstract and paper publication

Participants who wish to present a paper (oral or poster) at the Symposium must submit an abstract. A call for abstracts will be issued in the Second Circular.

We plan to publish the abstracts in a proceedings volume in the Reports on Polar and Marine Research (see https://www.awi.de/en/about-us/publications/reports-on-polar-and-marine-research.html).

The Council of the IGS has decided to publish a thematic online collection of the Annals of Glaciology on topics consistent with the symposium themes. Participants and non-participants alike are encouraged to submit manuscripts for this Annals Collection, and an official call for papers will follow.

Side meetings

The Local Organizing Committee welcomes requests from groups and organizations for meeting spaces to host side meetings before or after the symposium. Send all requests to 9th_IDT@awi.de

Venue

We look forward to welcoming the ice drill community to Albert Einstein Science Park on Telegrafenberg in Potsdam. The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) has a long history in ice core drilling and ice-core science. The meeting will occur at the joint facilities on Telegrafenberg, where AWI runs a branch focused on permafrost research and atmospheric science.

Scientific Programme Committee

Olivier Alemany, Paul Anker, Steffen Bo Hansen, Matthias Hüther, Jay Johnson, Darcy Mandeno, Frank Wilhelms (Chair), Nan Zhang

Local Organizing Committee

Stephanie Carstensen, Bernhard Dieckmann, Diedrich Fritzsche, Constance Oberdieck, Karlin Schumacher, Frank Wilhelms (Chair)

Editorial Board of Annals of Glaciology Collection

Nancy Bertler, Grant Boeckmann, Alison Criscitiello, Kenji Kawamura, Keith Makinson, Jason Roberts, Barbara Seth, Krissy Slawny, Pavel Talalay, Thorsteinn Thorsteinsson, Frank Wilhelms (Associate Chief Editor)

Before submitting an abstract, download the template and read the submission instructions carefully!