Equipment

IDDO maintains and operates existing ice drilling equipment and develops new systems with two principal foci:
1. to provide high quality ice cores, and
2. to produce boreholes that provide access to the interior and beds of ice sheets and glaciers for such purposes as embedding instruments, collecting gas samples, setting seismic charges, studying subglacial processes, and studying subglacial geology.



IDDO Equipment Assignments

The following matrix shows the status of IDDO equipment assignments. You can also view the matrix in full screen.

Legend:

Funded/Tasked Field Project

 

   MIS = McMurdo Ice Shelf   Summit = Summit Station
Proposed Field Project

 

   RIS = Ross Ice Shelf   TAM = Transantarctic Mtns
System in Development

 

   ROOS = Roosevelt Island   WAIS = West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Planned Maintenance/Upgrade (Equipment Not Available)        

 

   SDM = Siple Dome   WSD = WAIS Divide
System Not Available

 

   SPO = South Pole    

Equipment 2013 Arctic 2013-14 Antarctic 2014 Arctic 2014-15 Antarctic 2015 Arctic 2015-16 Antarctic 2016 Arctic 2016-17 Antarctic
2-Inch Drill
Unavailable
4-Inch Drill 1
NE Greenland / McConnell
SPO / Requested
SPO / Requested
Ellsworth Mts / Requested
4-Inch Drill 2
4-Inch Drill 3
Auger, 3" PICO 1
Greenland / Noone
Taylor Gl / Requested
Greenland / Noone
Taylor Gl / Requested
Taylor Gl / Requested
Auger, 3" PICO 2
Alaska / Nolan
Disko Bay / Das
Auger, 3" PICO 3
SE Greenland / Forster
Auger, 3″ PICO 4
Auger, 3″ PICO 5
Auger, 3″ PICO 6
Auger, 3″ PICO 7
Auger, 4" PICO 1
Alaska / Nolan
Auger, 4" PICO 2
Auger, Kovacs
Auger, SIPRE 1
Auger, SIPRE 2
Auger, SIPRE 3
Auger, SIPRE 4
Auger, SIPRE 5
Auger, SIPRE 6
Badger-Eclipse 1
Denali / Osterberg
Greenland / Requested
Allan Hills / Requested
Disko Bay / Das
Badger-Eclipse 2
Summit / Petrenko
SPO / Requested
Badger-Eclipse 3
Blue Ice Drill
Summit / Petrenko
Taylor Gl / Requested
Taylor Gl / Requested
Summit / Petrenko
Taylor Gl / Requested
Summit / Petrenko
Taylor Gl / Requested
Unavailable
Chipmunk Drill
DISC Drill
Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
DISC Replicate
Unavailable
HWD, Portable 1
Beardmore Gl / Conway
RIS / Requested
HWD, Portable 2
Unavailable
HWD, TBD
Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Getz Ice Shelf / Requested
Intermediate Drill
In Development
In Development
Greenland / IDDO
SPO / Saltzman
Unavailable
SPO / Saltzman
Unavailable
Koci Drill
TAM / Requested
TAM / Requested
Logging Tower
Logging Winch, Deep IDDO (secondary)
In Development
WSD / Bay
WSD / Pettit
WSD / Pettit
WSD / Requested
Logging Winch, Deep USGS (primary)
WSD / Bay
WSD / Pettit
Logging Winch, Intermediate
WSD / Bay
SDM / Bay
Engelhardt Ice Ridge / Requested
Prairie Dog
RAM Drill
Sidewinder 1
Greenland / Noone
Taylor Gl / Requested
Greenland / Noone
Taylor Gl / Requested
Taylor Gl / Requested
Sidewinder 2
Alaska / Nolan
Sidewinder 3
SE Greenland / Forster
Sidewinder 4
Thermal Drill
SE Greenland / Forster

NOTES:

  1. Projects marked with a * are non-NSF projects.
  2. The "Logging Winch, Deep USGS" is not part of IDDO's inventory of equipment and the projects utilizing it are not necessarily IDDO-supported projects. The winch belongs to Gary Clow at the USGS. It is listed here, with permission from Gary, simply for community planning purposes. Any questions about the USGS Winch should be directed to Gary at: clow at usgs dot gov.
  3. Gary Clow indicated that the USGS Winch could be a back-up for the deep logging winch requested at WSD in 2015-16 as it doesn't have commitments elsewhere.