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Ice Drilling Program Office

The Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) is led by Mary Albert at Dartmouth College with collaborations at the University of Wisconsin (UW) and University of New Hampshire. The IDPO provides scientific leadership and oversight of ice coring and drilling activities funded by NSF and also oversees the IDDO.

Principal Investigators
Mary Albert
Mary Albert, Ph.D.
Executive Director, IDPO
Professor of Engineering
Dartmouth College Hanover, NH USA
Phone: 603.646.0277
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Additional Info: Dartmouth webpage
 
Charles Bentley
Charles Bentley, Ph.D.
Director of Drilling Technology, IDPO
Emeritus Professor, Geophysics
University of Wisconsin Madison, WI USA
Phone: 608.238.8873
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Mark Twickler
Mark Twickler
Director of Communications, IDPO
Senior Research Project Manager
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH USA
Phone: 603.862.1991
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Staff

Joseph Souney
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH USA
Phone: 603.862.0591
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Linda Morris
Education Program Manager, IDPO
Dartmouth College Hanover, NH USA
Phone: 603.646.8126
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Ice Drilling Design and Operations

The Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO), led by Charles Bentley at UW, provides engineering design support for new drilling systems as well as the operation and maintenance of existing drill systems now under the purview of IDDO at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center (UW-SSEC). Many of the staff and familiar engineers and drillers who worked with the Ice Coring & Drilling Services (ICDS) group under the previous contract to UW now provide the support for IDDO, with IDPO oversight.

Principal Investigator
Ice Coring and Drilling Services
and
Ice Drilling Design and Operations
Charles Bentley
Charles Bentley, Ph.D.
Director, IDDO
Emeritus Professor, Geophysics
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI USA
Phone: 608.238.8873
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Mailing Address
ICDS-IDDO
Space Science and Engineering Center
1225 W. Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608.263.6750
Fax: 608.263.9521
Street Address
1225 W. Dayton Street
Madison, WI USA 53706
Staff
Don Lebar
Program Director
Ice Drilling Design and Operations, SSEC
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608.263.4843
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Kristina Dahnert
Safety/Quality Coordinator
Ice Drilling Design and Operations, SSEC
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608.263.6178
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Jay Johnson
Engineer
Ice Drilling Design and Operations, SSEC
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608.262.3576
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Alex Shturmakov, Ph.D.
Engineering & Research Director
Ice Drilling Design and Operations, SSEC
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608.265.0038
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Michael Gerasimoff
Engineer
Ice Drilling Design and Operations, SSEC
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608.265.0800
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Tanner Kuhl
Engineer
Ice Drilling Design and Operations, SSEC
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608.261.1548
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Tony Wendricks
Project Coordinator
Ice Drilling Design and Operations, SSEC
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608.263.6755
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Chris Gibson
Engineer
Ice Drilling Design and Operations, SSEC
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608.890.1987
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Bill Landucci
Engineer
Ice Drilling Design and Operations, SSEC
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608.262.1565
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Robin Bolsey
Engineer
Ice Drilling Design and Operations, SSEC
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608.261.1429
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Josh Goetz
Engineer
Ice Drilling Design and Operations, SSEC
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608.890.1986
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Nicolai Mortensen
Engineer
Ice Drilling Design and Operations, SSEC
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608.261.1549
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Science Advisory Board

The IDPO convenes a Science Advisory Board (SAB) for the purpose of forming and updating a 5-year Science Plan that addresses multiple aspects of ice core and other ice science and associated technology—emerging frontiers, sustaining capabilities, maintaining relevance, innovative technologies, fostering the next generation of ice core scientists and engineers, to name a few.

Sridhar Anandakrishnan
Sridhar Anandakrishnan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Glaciology/Geophysics
Pennsylvania State University
Department of Geosciences
University Park, PA USA
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
University of Copenhagen
Centre for Ice and Climate
DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ed Brook
Ed Brook, Ph.D.
Professor, Geochemistry/Paleoclimate
Oregon State University
Department of Geosciences
Corvallis, OR USA
Karl Kreutz
Karl Kreutz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Geochemistry/Paleoclimate
University of Maine
Department of Earth Sciences
Orono, ME USA
Howard Conway
Howard Conway, Ph.D.
Research Professor, Glaciology/Ice Sheet History
University of Washington
Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Seattle, WA USA
Ross Powell
Ross Powell, Ph.D.
Professor, Sedimentology/Climate Change
Northern Illinois University
Deptarment of Geology and Environmental Geosciences
DeKalb, Illinois USA
Kurt Cuffey
Kurt Cuffey, Ph.D.
Professor, Paleoclimate/Glaciology
University of California-Berkeley
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Eric Saltzman
Eric Saltzman, Ph.D.
Professor, Earth System Science
University of California
School of Physical Sciences
Irvine, CA USA

 
Technical Advisory Board

In order to have the best available advice in regard to drill innovation, design, and operation, IDDO has established a Technical Advisory Board TAB of experts who meet regularly and are available for occasional specific technical tasks.

Peter Doran
Peter Doran,Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois USA
Alex Pyne
Alex R Pyne
Projects Manager
Victoria University of Wellington,
Antarctic Research Centre
Wellington,
New Zealand
Alfred Eustes
Alfred W. Eustes III, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor
Petroleum Engineering Dept.
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, Colorado USA
Pavel G. Talalay, Ph.D.
Professor
St. Petersburg State Mining Institute
2, 21 Line,
St. Petersburg 199106
Russia
Steffen Bo Hansen
Steffen Bo Hansen
Engineer, Ice drilling & logistics
University of Copenhagen
Juliane Maries Vej 30
DK-2100
Copenhagen, Denmark
Frank Wilhelms
Frank Wilhelms, Ph.D.
Professor, Glaciology/Geophysics/Ice Core Drilling
Alfred Wegener Inst. for Polar and Marine Research Columbusstrasse D-27568
Bremerhaven, Germany
William D. Harrison, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics Emeritus
University of Alaska
Fairbanks, AK USA
Kris Zacny
Kris Zacny, Ph.D.
Director, Drilling and Excavation Systems,
Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanisms Corporation,
New York, NY USA
Marshall Pardey
QD Tech, Inc.
Salt Lake City, UT USA