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 2018 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. 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 or need other resources!
Activity/Lab + Link | Presenter |
Participants arrive at Hanover Inn—dinner on own | |
Workshop registration—Thayer School of Engineering—Rett’s Room-receive notebooks, receipt envelopes and campus maps | Lauren, Deb, Vivian |
Reception—soft drinks & light snacks | Louise |
Activity: To the Ends of the Earth | Louise (Vivian) |
Intro. of facilitators | Louise |
Welcome from IDPO | Mary Albert (Vivian) |
Activity: The Only Direction is North—Discovering Antarctica through Maps | Louise & Lauren & Deb (Vivian) |
Overview of Workshop | Louise |
Activity: Introduction–participants & facilitators—Life Cores | Louise |
Open discussion/Icebreaker Questions List | Louise & Mary |
Directions for tomorrow | Louise |
Reflections: Great Expectations | Louise |
Activity/Lab + Link | Presenter |
Meet in lobby Hanover Inn— Walk to Rett’s Room, Thayer School of Engineering | Lauren & Deb |
Theme: Ice Core Science | Louise |
Introduction to ice sheets-ice core science; isotopes, chemistry and gases; emerging discoveries | Erich Osterberg (Vivian) |
Aerosols: Ash, soot and dust records | Erich |
BREAK | |
Activity: Polar Detectives (activity) Polar Detectives Directions ppt | Louise, Lauren & Deb (Vivian) |
Drilling ice cores | Mary |
Activity: Drill Model | Louise (Vivian) |
LUNCH and walk to ice core lab—Fairchild Hall | Lauren & Deb walk with group |
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, Gabe, Lauren, Vivian (photos 1:10-2:00—2:05 photos in lab room) |
Group 2: Activity: Ice Core Lab-Proxy Video/Nature vs Science (activity)/ Nature vs Science directions ppt/Bucket Brigade | Louise, Deb (Vivian photos 2:05-2:55) |
BREAK-Switch groups | |
Group 2a: Core processing; 2b: Gas Labs – Group 2b: Core processing; 2a: Gas labs | Erich, Gabe, Deb, Vivian (photos in classroom 3:05-3:55—then in ice core lab 4:00-4:50) |
Group 1: Activity: Ice Core Lab—Proxy Video/Ice Core Lab Excel Sheet/Nature vs Science (activity)/Nature vs Science ppt/Bucket Brigade | Louise, Lauren, Vivian—photos 3:05-4:50—then ice core lab |
BREAK—move to classroom#213 | |
Revisit Ice Core Data graph; Reflection: Ah Ha! Directions for tomorrow | Louise |
Walk to hotel-Dinner and evening on own |
Activity/Lab + Link | Presenter |
Meet in lobby of Hanover Inn-walk to Rett’s Room | |
Glacial Dynamics | Bob Hawley |
Geological Walking Field Trip: How Glaciers Shape the Land | Meredith Kelly/Kate Salamido Vivian (photos) |
Walk to Thayer-LUNCH Jackson Conference Room-sediment cores | |
Activity: Set up Land Ice/Sea Ice/Gounded Ice | Louise (Vivian) |
Activity: Glacier Dynamics-Slip Sliding Away (Coming soon) | Louise, Lauren & Deb (Vivian) |
Albedo | Mary Albert |
Activity: Albedo | Louise, Lauren & Deb (Vivian) |
Revisit Land Ice/Sea Ice | Louise |
Reflection: I used to think…but now I know | Louise |
Walk to hotel-dinner on own |
Activity/Lab + Link | Presenter |
Transport to Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab (CRREL)—bring govt. issued IDs | Mary, Louise |
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 (in cold room complex) – Ice Adhesion and snow microstructure ( + Q & A), GISP2 core Nate Lamie-Oil spills in sea ice Continue tour of CRREL;discuss engineering projects Sea Ice Runway Movie | Zoe Courville, Emily Asenath-Smith, Nate Lamie, Terry Melendy, and Vivian (photos) |
Travel to Dartmouth | |
Lunch in Rett’s Room | Vivian-finish video rest of afternoon—load on flashdrives with Louise by 5:30 |
Videoconference—Polar gear and logistics | Elaine Hood |
Activity: The CRAAP Test—(CRAAP Reading Materials–Anderegg and Frumhoff—Identifying resource bias and validity (STINK Test is also available for younger audiences) | Mary |
BREAK– collect receipts | |
Activity: Ice Core/ Pollen and Volcano/ Ice Core-adaptations | Lauren |
Group meeting in Rett’s Room | Lauren, Louise, Deb |
Group Workshop and discussion | |
Closure and evaluations | Louise |
Transport to dinner | Mary, Louise, Deb, participant? |
Celebration Dinner—Norwich Inn | 20 |
Transport back to Hanover Inn | Mary, Louise, Lauren |