IDDO Technical Advisory Board meeting 2014
Madison, USA
9-10 September, 2014
The meeting was attended by 9 of 12 TAB members, one proxy TAB member, IDDO staff, members from IDPO, former IDDO PI Charlie Bentley and new IDDO PI Mark Mulligan. IDDO presented on the current status of IDDO field projects, equipment development projects and equipment maintenance and upgrade efforts. As with each TAB meeting, IDDO gained very valuable feedback from board members on equipment development projects, ideas regarding new technologies in ice drilling and other fields, as well as input on field project logistics. Pavel Talalay presented report “Recent progress in Chinese ice drilling projects in Antarctica”.
2014 SCAR Open Science Conference
Auckland, New Zealand
25-29 August, 2014
The conference was organized by the University of Auckland and took place at the SKYCITY Convention Centre in Auckland, New Zealand. The conference included broad range of topics related to Antarctica and the Southern Ocean including glaciers and ice sheet mass balance and their relation to sea level, developments in the understanding of subglacial aquatic environments, past Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics. Pavel Talalay and Nan Zhang gave three presentations:
1. “Exploration of Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains: Sampling and analysis plan”
2. “Instrumentation of recoverable autonomous sonde RECAS for environmental exploration of Antarctic subglacial lakes”
3. “Non-trivial dynamics of Antarctic ice sheet resulted on borehole, geodetic and radar observations”
International Symposium on Glaciers and Ice Sheets Contribution to Sea-Level Change (Observations, Modelling and Prediction)
Chamonix, France
26-30 May, 2014
Symposium took place in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, settlement in south-eastern France located at the north side of the summit of Mont Blanc, at elevation of 1,012 m above sea level. The symposium was focused to observations at the interfaces between atmosphere/cryosphere and ocean/cryosphere and ice-flow models. Meeting participants presented on a wide variety of topics: basal processes, basal melting, grounding-line dynamics, calving processes, surface mass balance, ice body and rheology, new generation of ice-sheet models, estimation of the contribution of glaciers and ice-sheets to sea-level change. Alexey Markov gave presentation “Layered model of Antarctic ice-sheet dynamics based on results of borehole directional survey and surface radar profiling”.
General Assembly 2014 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)
Vienna, Austria
27 April – 02 May, 2014
The annual conference covered a wide range of topics, including subglacial environments of ice sheets and glaciers, ice-sheet and climate interactions, modelling ice sheets and glaciers. 4,829 oral, 9,583 poster, and 483 PICO presentations were given within the EGU General Assembly 2014. At the conference 12,437 scientists from 106 countries participated. Pavel Talalay and Rusheng Wang gave following presentations:
1. “Geoethical approach to Antarctic Subglacial Lakes exploration”
2. “Cable-suspended ice and bedrock electromechanical drill: design and tests”
3. “Exploration of Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, East Antarctica: Background and plans for the near future”
