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Welcome to the School of Ice! 

The School of Ice (SOI) is an advanced professional development program from the U.S. Ice Drilling Program (IDP) for geoscience faculty at minority-serving institutions (MSIs).

Our nation faces a serious challenge in attracting young people to science and its related careers. This is particularly true for members of groups under-represented in STEM and minority college students majoring in geosciences.

To address these issues, IDP, with funding from the National Science Foundation, offers the School of Ice as a rigorous professional development workshop for faculty at MSIs. This program will train participants to understand paleo-climate evidence derived from iced cores and to acquire the skills necessary to bring this exciting inquiry into new and existing Earth and environmental science classes on their campuses.

The experiential nature of this workshop will build background knowledge of cutting-edge research and empower participants to communicate authentic paleo-climate research practices, ice core data, and results to their students.

Participants, 2019 School of Ice in Denver and Boulder, CO

Participants, SOI 2018, Dartmouth campus

Participants in 2017, Dartmouth campus

Participants in 2016, National Ice Core Lab, Denver, CO

Participants in 2015, National Ice Core Lab, Denver, CO

ABOUT CLIMATE EXPEDITIONS

Our goal is to provide cutting-edge information based on current ice core research for educators, students and the public in a way that contributes to your classroom or informal science program efforts, and that provides data that is useful to decision-makers of all backgrounds.

U.S. Ice Drilling Program’s Education Office

Located at Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. 603-646-8126.

 

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement No. PLR-1327315 to Dartmouth, and sub awards to University of New Hampshire, University of Wisconsin and Colorado School of Mines which support the work of the Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.