Date

WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences (IPICS)
Algonkian Regional Park
Sterling, Virginia
13-16 March 2004

Registration Deadline: Sunday, 1 February 2004

For further information, please go to:
http://nicl-smo.unh.edu/IPICS/IPICS.html

GOALS OF THE WORKSHOP
The International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences workshop is a forum to discuss ways to combine international resources and experience to facilitate ice coring science. This collaboration may be a way to reduce the overall cost of the science.

Specific objectives of the workshop will include:

  • joint identification of the scientific questions to be addressed by the next ice coring projects planned by participating entities

  • identification of current logistical and technical challenges to carrying out these projects

  • exposition of current planning and logistical practices that will help identify resources that might potentially be shared among the participating entities early in the planning stages

  • sharing of lessons learned on prior drilling projects carried out over the past thirty years

  • identification of cross-cutting resource deployment issues that may best be addressed by collaboration

The desired outcomes from the discussion of these issues include:
- the identification of common interests and issues that invite cooperative partnering on upcoming projects

  • identification of efficiencies of scale and potential for cost savings that can be realized by sharing resources

  • identification of near-term and long-range opportunities for sharing and cross training of skilled personnel

  • identification of critical, common technical challenges and next steps to solve these challenges in order to insure maximum return on the investment for both the science and funding entities

PARTICIPATION
Participation in the meeting will be open to all. The steering committee has identified and invited key personnel from the major ice core laboratories. Those invited will have their travel cost covered but expected to:

  • Provide a National Report of current and future ice core activities by
    January 26, 2004

  • The reports should represent the National interest, not just the interest of the invitee.

  • Any individual may submit a report for the workshop.

The workshop will be limited to 60 attendees due to meeting room constraints. Please register early.

To register, please go to:
http://www.nicl-smo-workshop.sr.unh.edu/Registration.shtml

Registration Deadline: Sunday, 1 February 2004

CONTACT
For further information on IPICS, please go to:
http://nicl-smo.unh.edu/IPICS/IPICS.html

or contact:
Ken Taylor and Mark Twickler at:
(ipics.info [at] unh.edu)