DRAFT Agenda

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Posters

Sunday, 17 September

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18:30 - 20:00 Welcome Cookout on Patio

Monday, 18 September

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06:30 - 08:30 Breakfast ServiceCommons

Session 1: Plenary - Room 160 IW

08:30 - 08:40 Opening remarks / Logistics
08:40 - 09:00 Welcome remarks / NSF-OPP and Steering Committee
09:00 - 09:30 KeynoteWhite, Jim: What everyone need to know about climate change, and how ice cores dominate the message

Session 2: Retrospectives in Ice Drilling

09:30 - 10:00 Talk 1Bentley, Charles: Drilling to the beds of ice sheets: a review
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Break
10:30 - 11:00 Talk 2Vasiliev, Nikolay and Talalay, Pavel: Deep drilling at Vostok Station, Antarctica: History and last events
11:00 - 11:30 Talk 3Ueda, Herbert: Drilling at Byrd Station, 1966 - 1969

Session 3: Characteristics of Ice

11:30 - 12:00 Talk 4Wilhelms, Frank: Physical properties of ice sheets - implications for, and findings from deep ice core drilling
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break

Session 3 (continued): Characteristics of Ice

13:30 - 14:00 Talk 5Vasiliev, Nikolay: Stability of walls of deep bore holes in ice
14:00 - 14:30 Talk 6Talalay, Pavel: Deformation of deep boreholes drilled in ice sheets: a discussion

Session 3: Drilling Campaigns

14:30 - 15:00 Talk 7Blake, Erik Update on Canadian ice drilling programs
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Break

Session 3(continued): Drilling Campaigns

15:30 - 16:00 Talk 8Mulvaney, Robert: The Berkner Island ice core drilling project
16:00 - 16:30 Talk 9Augustin, Laurent: EPICA Dome C 2 Drilling: performance, difficulties, and results
16:30 - 17:00 Talk 10Motoyama, Hideaki: Deep ice coring project at Dome Fuji, Antarctica II
17:00 - 17:30 Talk 11Wilhelms, Frank: The EDML deep drilling operation
17:30 Dinner Service startsDining Commons

General Interest Presentation

18:30 - 19:30 160 IWKovacs, Austin: Aircraft recovery from the Greenland Ice Sheet

Tuesday, 19 September

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06:30 - 08:20 Breakfast Service
08:20 Room 160: Opening remarks / housekeeping - IW

Session 1: Special Topics

08:30 - 09:00 Talk 1Kennicutt, Mahlon (Chuck) II : Subglacial Antarctic Lake Exploration (SALE): From a curiosity to a focus of international scientific research
09:00 - 09:30 Talk 2Talalay, Pavel: Environmental aspects of ice drilling technology
09:30 - 10:00 Talk 3Fitzpatrick, Joan: Formal proposal for the establishment of a drilling technology group
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Break

Session 2: New Drill Systems

10:30 - 11:00 Talk 4Pyne, Alex: The Cape Roberts Project - offshore geological drilling from a sea ice platform
11:00 - 11:30 Talk 5Vogel, Stefan; Powell, Ross: A new hot-water based smart soft-coiled tubing drill system for investigating intermediate-depth subglacial environments
11:30 - 12:00 Talk 6Johnsen, Sigfus, et al.: The Hans Tausen drill; design, performance and further developments
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:00 Talk 7Shturmakov, Alex: A new drill for deep ice sheet coring (DISC) - Part 1 - Design concepts
14:00 - 14:30 Talk 8Mason, Bill: A new drill for deep ice sheet coring (DISC) - Part 2 - Mechanical Design
14:30 - 15:00 Talk 9Mortensen, Nicolai : A New 122 mm Electromechanical Drill for Deep Ice Sheet Coring (DISC) - Part 3 - Control, Electrical and Electronic Design
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Break
15:30 - 16:00 Talk 10Sendelbach, Paul: A new drill for deep ice sheet coring (DISC) - Part 4 - Drill cable
16:00 - 16:30 Talk 11Johnson, Jay: A new drill for deep ice sheet coring (DISC) - Part 5 - Greenland Test
16:30 - 17:30 POSTER SESSION SETUP AND START
17:30 - 18:30 Dinner Service
18:30 - POSTER SESSION CONTINUES

Wednesday, 20 September

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06:30 - 08:20 Breakfast Service
08:20 Room 160 IW - Opening remarks / housekeeping

Session 1: New and Innovative Technologies

08:30 - 09:00 Talk 1Eustes, Alfred (Bill) III: Petroleum technology transfer: what's out there?
09:00 - 09:30 Talk 2Wilhelms, Frank: What do automotive industry and ice core drilling have in common?
09:30 - 10:00 Talk 3Rufli, Henri: Floating dome - a possible solution for long-term station building on permanent snow or ice surfaces
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Break
10:30 - 11:10 Talk 4Wilhelms, Frank: New way to control the pitch: The one armed bandit or less is more!
11:00 - 11:30 Talk 5Kyne, Jay: Core catching without core dogs for dry drilling
11:30 - 12:00 Talk 6Kyne, Jay: Scoop cutter shows great promise for improved core quality in wet and dry core drilling
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:00 Talk 7Schwander, Jakob: Downhole bedrock sounding

Session 2: Hot Water and Rapid Access Drilling

14:00 - 14:30 Talk 8Elcheikh, Alan: IceCube Enhanced Hot Water Drill - Drilling Overview & Performance
14:30 - 15:00 Talk 9Cherwinka, Jeff: IceCube Enhanced Hot Water Drill - System Overview, Hose & Heater Improvements
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Break
15:30 - 16:00 Talk 10Ganugapati, Raghunath: Insights into the Development of the Smart Drill Program

Session 3: Lessons Learned Discussion

16:00 - 17:00 Lessons Learned Session
17:30 Dinner Service starts
19:00 - Video and Popcorn Session - Roosevelt Room

Thursday, 21 September

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06:30 - 08:20 Breakfast Service
08:20 Room 160 IW Opening remarks / housekeeping

Session 1: Drilling Fluids

08:30 - 09:00 Talk 1Alemany, Olivier: Preliminary study about the ice chips / drilling fluid mixture flow
09:00 - 09:30 Talk 2Steffensen, Jorgen Peder: Results from laboratory and field tests of new drilling fluid
09:30 - 10:00 Talk 3Wilhelms, Frank: Drilling liquid with negative global warming potential: How will the gas-community comment?
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Break

Session 2: Aspects of Drill Performance

10:30 - 11:00 Talk 4Augustin, Laurent: Comparison of drill performance in warm ice
11:00 - 11:30 Talk 5Vasiliev, Nikolay: Special features of deep coring
11:30 - 12:00 Talk 6Koci, Bruce: Influence of cutter geometry on ice core quality
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:00 Talk 7Green, Jim: Drilling in rocky ice

Session 3: Ice Core Handling and Quality Control

14:00 - 14:30 Talk 8Wilhelms, Frank: Best practice for high sample quality: Retrieval - Logging - Transport - Storage - Processing - Curating
14:30 - 15:00 Talk 9Hargreaves, Geoff: New core handling and logging procedures for WAIS Divide: results of the 2006 test field season
15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Break
15:30 - 16:00 Talk 10Steffensen, Jorgen Peder: Can international standards for ice core logging, documentation, and sample reference be made?
16:00 - 16:30 Talk 11Fitzpatrick, Joan: Enabling a global ice core inventory portal - standards and architecture
16:30 - 17:00 Talk 12
17:00 - 17:30 Talk 13
18:00 Workshop Banquet

Posters

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Seq. No. POSTER TITLE1st AUTHOR NAME
1 Preliminary study for a coiled tubing system for access hole in polar ice Alemany, Olivier
2 LGGE's intermediate and shallow drills (may not be ready) Alemany, Olivier
3 Heat produced by cutting ice: some ideas on the 'warm ice problem' Azuma, Nobuhiko
4 An ice coring drill for Mars Blake, Erik
5 Sterile penetration and sampling of subglacial lakes Blake, Erik
6 Hot water drill heater efficiency improvements Bolsey, Robin
7 IceCube Enhanced Hot Water Drill- Drill System Elcheikh, Alan
8 Australian Ice Drilling Program in the Aurora Basin, East Antarctica Elcheikh, Alan
9 A standardized rating for ice core quality Bergeron, Beth / Gacke, Terrance
10 The FED - a device for rapid removal of drilling fluid from ice cores Hargreaves, Geoff / Bencivengo, Brian
11 Features of the Hans Tausen Drill Johnsen, Sigfus / Bo Hansen, Steffen
12 The Side-Winder for powering a hand coring system in drilling and lifting Kyne, Jay
13 The PrarieDog, the double-barreled torsion stem coring drill for 10- to 30-m depths Kyne, Jay
14 4-wire temperature measurement borehole probe Lefebvre, Eric
15 New Drill Fluids for Greenland & Western Antarctic Sheldon, Simon
16 Planned projects and system enhancements of the DISC drill Shturmakov, Alex
17 Some features of attitude position changes of a drill on a hoisting cable Vasiliev, Nikolay
18 A proposed technology of penetration in sub-glacial Lake Vostok and microbiological investigation of sub-glacial water Yankilevich, Svetlana
29 A new suctionless sediment coring system for subglacial research Vogel, Stefan and Powell, Ross
22 Drilling Under Glaciers Talalay, Pavel
22 USDOE Microborehole Drilling Technology Thompson, Jim
23 TALDICE Project: Ice coring on Talos Dome Frascati, Fabrizio and Panichi, Saverio
24 A new approach to accessing Antarctic subglacial lakes Funke, Oliver, et al.
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