Town Hall Meeting Announcement
Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions
2010 AGU Fall Meeting
Moscone West, Room 3005
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
12:30-1:30 p.m. PST
For further information, please contact:
Mary Albert
Email: mary.r.albert [at] dartmouth.edu
A Town Hall Meeting entitled "Scientific Drilling in the Polar Regions"
will be held at the 2010 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
in San Francisco, California. The Town Hall will be held Wednesday, 15
December 2010 in Moscone West, Room 3005 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. Pacific
Standard Time.
Anyone interested is invited to come to the Town Hall Meeting to hear
interdisciplinary planning updates and to learn how to get involved in
science planning for future endeavors. The meeting will be particularly
relevant to researchers whose science requires ice cores, access holes
through glaciers/ice sheets, or ocean sediment cores.
Ice sheets and ocean sediments hold important evidence on past
cryosphere-ocean-atmosphere systems that are key to understanding
current climate change. The need for national and international
collaboration on both the science and logistics for scientific drilling
in these remote regions requires strategic coordination between science,
technology, and logistics, along with proposal pressure from the
research community. This town hall will report on recent planning by the
IDPO/IDDO, IPICS, ANDRILL, IODP, SCAR-ACE, SHALDRIL, and WAIS
initiatives, and will provide time to discuss current opportunities for
community involvement in long-term interdisciplinary planning.
For further information, please contact:
Mary Albert
Email: mary.r.albert [at] dartmouth.edu