School of Ice 2017-Dartmouth College-Hanover, NH

The School of Ice agenda is organized around ice core science themes. Each year the presenters and activities may change, but the core concepts are similar. Below is the School of Ice Agenda for 2017. Each activity and presentation is hyperlinked to the resource or presentation to make it easily accessible for you. Contact us if you have any questions!

SUNDAY, June 25th, 2017: Welcome

Activity/Lab + Link	Presenter
Participants arrive at hotel—dinner on own
Workshop registration—Thayer School of Engineering—Rett’s Room-receive notebooks, receipt envelopes and maps	Louise Huffman
Reception	Louise
Activity: To the Ends of the Earth	Louise
Welcome from IDPO	Mary Albert
Overview of workshop	Louise
Activity: Introduction-participants & facilitators-Life Cores	Louise & Julia Dooley
Welcome from NSF	Lisa Rom
Activity: The Only Direction is North—Discovering Antarctica through Maps	Louise
Open discussion/Icebreaker Questions List	Lisa Bastiaans, Louise & Mary
Reflections: Great Expectations	Louise

MONDAY, June 26th, 2017: Ice Core Science

Activity/Lab + Link	Presenter
Meet in lobby Hanover Inn-Walk to Rett’s Room, Thayer School of Engineering
Theme: Ice Core Science	Louise
Introduction to ice sheets–ice core science; isotopes, chemistry and gases; emerging discoveries	Erich Osterberg
Aerosols: Ash, soot and dust records	Bess Koffman
Activity: Polar Detectives	Louise & Lisa B.
Drilling ice cores: Science and Engineering	Mary
Activity: Drill Model	Louise
Theme: Core Processing & Ice Core Analysis
Welcome—groups move to assigned activity	Erich
Group 1a: Core processing; 1b: Gas Labs Group 1b: Core processing; 1a: Gas labs	Erich, Grad student/Julia (photos)
Group 2: Activity: Ice Core Lab (and excel sheet) / Nature vs. Science Card Game	Louise, Lisa B., Julia (photos)
Group 2a: Core processing; 2b: Gas Labs Group 2b: Core processing; 2a: Gas labs	Erich, Grad student, Julia (photos)
Group 1: Activity: Ice Core Lab (and excel sheet) /Nature vs. Science Card Game	Louise, Lisa B, Julia (photos)
Reflection: Ah Ha!/ Directions for tomorrow	Louise

TUESDAY, June 27th, 2017: Ice Dynamics in Greenland and Antarctica and Effects on Sea Level

Activity/Lab + Link	Presenter
Meet in lobby of Hanover Inn
Geological Walking Field Trip: How Glaciers Shape the Land	Meredith Kelly/Julia (photos)
Walk to Thayer– LUNCH Jackson Conference Room
Theme: Glacial Dynamics
Activity: Set up Land Ice/Sea Ice	Louise (J)
Glacial Dynamics	Kristin Schild
Activity: Glacier Goo: Ice Dynamics	Lisa B , Louise (J)
Revisit Land Ice/Sea Ice	Louise
Albedo	Amber Whelsky
Activity: Albedo	Amber Whelsky (J)
Reflection: I used to think…but now I know	Louise
Walk to hotel—dinner on own

WEDNESDAY, June 28th, 2017: Technology and Polar Engineering

Activity/Lab + Link	Presenter
Meet in Hanover Inn lobby
Transport to Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab (CRREL)—bring govt. issued IDs	Mary, Louise, Lisa B. & Julia transport
Security clearance into CRREL
Theme: Imaging – from the microscale to the macroscale (Times include talks, Q&A, tour of CRREL and travel to next presentation.) Overview of CRREL (Zoe Courville) Zoe Courville and Emily Asenath-Smith (incold room complex) – Ice Adhesion and snowmicrostructure ( + Q & A), GISP2 core Don Perovich – Remote sensing of sea ice 9:30-9:50- Bruce Elder — Buoys as sensing platforms forsea ice – Cold pit/buoy assembly area (+Q & A) Zoe Courville –Ice/snow engineering;continue tour of CRREL to include Ice Engineering Facility and Frost Effects Research Facility; discuss engineering projects using facilities Phoenix Snow Runway – (Zoe Courville) Terry Melendy in materials lab (+Q & A)	Zoe Courville Emily Asenath-Smith Don Perovich Bruce Elder Terry Melendy Julia (photos)
Videoconference—Polar gear and logistics	Elaine Hood
Activity: The Long Haul video and activity (demo) Activity: Polar Science and Engineering: Drilling Back Through Time (demo)	Louise
Activity: The CRAAP Test—Identifying resource bias and validity	Mary
Group meeting in Rett’s Room	Louise
Group Workshop and discussion	Lisa Bastiaans
Closure and evaluations	Louise
Transport to dinner	Mary, Louise, Lisa B.
Celebration Dinner—Norwich Inn	12 + Mary, Louise, Lisa B., Julia, Erich O.
Transport back to Hanover Inn	Mary, Louise, Lisa B.