News and Updates from the IPICS Community.
International Partnership in Ice Core Sciences (IPICS) (Expert Group)
News and Updates from the IPICS Community.
Publications, Data and Links of interest to the ice core community
Polar Research: Buried treasure
Jones, N., Nature, 446, 126-128 (8 March 2007) doi:10.1038/446126a
The future of ice coring: International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences (IPICS)
Brook, E., Wolff, E.W., Dahl-Jensen, D., Fischer, H. and Steig, E., PAGES News, 14(1), 6-10, 2006
The Future of Ice Core Science
Brook, E., Eos, 87(4), 39, (24 January 2006)
Searching for the oldest ice
Severinghaus, J., E. W. Wolff, and E. J. Brook (2010), EOS Trans., 91(40), 357-358.
Fischer, H., et al. (2013), Where to find 1.5 million yr old ice for the IPICS "Oldest Ice" ice core,
Climate of the Past, 9, 2489-2505, doi:10.5194/cpd-9-2771-2013.
Van Liefferinge, B., and F. Pattyn (2013), Using ice-flow models to evaluate potential sites of million
year-old ice in Antarctica, Climate of the Past, 9(5), 2335-2345, doi:10.5194/cp-9-2335-2013.
Alemany, O., et al. (2014), The SUBGLACIOR drilling probe: concept and design, Ann. Glaciol., 55(68),
233-242, doi:10.3189/2014AoG68A026.
Capron, E., A. Govin, E. J. Stone, V. Masson-Delmotte, S. Mulitza, B. Otto-Bliesner, L. C. Sime, C. Waelbroeck, and E. W. Wolff (2014), Temporal and spatial structure of multi-millennial temperature changes at high latitudes during the Last Interglacial, Quat. Sci. Rev., 103, 116- 133.
Masson-Delmotte, V., et al. (2011), A comparison of the present and last interglacial periods in six Antarctic ice cores, Clim. Past, 7(2), 397-423.
NEEM Community Members (2013), Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core Nature, 493, 489-494, doi:10.1038/nature11789.
Schneider, R., J. Schmitt, P. Kohler, F. Joos, and H. Fischer (2013), A reconstruction of atmospheric carbon dioxide and its stable carbon isotopic composition from the penultimate glacial maximum to the last glacial inception, Climate of the Past, 9(6), 2507-2523, doi:10.5194/cp- 9-2507-2013.
Steig, E. J., K. Huybers, H. A. Singh, N. J. Steiger, Q. H. Ding, D. M. W. Frierson, T. Popp, and J. W. C. White (2015), Influence of West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse on Antarctic surface climate, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42(12), 4862-4868, doi:10.1002/2015gl063861.
Marcott, S. A., et al. (2014), Centennial-scale changes in the global carbon cycle during the last deglaciation, Nature, 514(7524), 616-619, doi:10.1038/nature13799.
Mulvaney, R., N. J. Abram, R. C. A. Hindmarsh, C. Arrowsmith, L. Fleet, J. Triest, L. C. Sime, O. Alemany, and S. Foord (2012), Recent Antarctic Peninsula warming relative to Holocene climate and ice-shelf history, Nature, 489(7414), 141-144, doi:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7414/abs/nature11391.html#supplementary-information.
Pedro, J. B., S. O. Rasmussen, and T. D. van Ommen (2012), Tightened constraints on the time-lag between Antarctic temperature and CO2 during the last deglaciation, Climate of the Past, 8(4), 1213-1221, doi:10.5194/cp-8-1213-2012.
Wais Divide Project Members (2015), Precise interpolar phasing of abrupt climate change during the last ice age, Nature, 520(7549), 661-665, doi:10.1038/nature14401
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v520/n7549/abs/nature14401.html#supplementary- information.
Pages 2k Consortium (2013), Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia,
Nature Geoscience, 6(5), 339-346, doi:10.1038/ngeo1797.
Sigl, M., et al. (2015), Timing and climate forcing of volcanic eruptions for the past 2,500 years,
Nature, 523(7562), 543-+, doi:10.1038/nature14565.
Details of other publications by the IPICS group are listed on the documents page of the IPICS website.
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For more information about IPICS membership, visit the IPICS website hosted by PAGES.
The IPICS Steering Committee as of June 2018:
(Full details are listed on the Steering Committee page of the IPICS website.)
Name and email | Affiliation | Nation | National or Project |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Australian National University | Australia | 2k |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Nagaoka University of Technology | Japan | Drilling |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | IDPA-CNR, University Ca’ Foscari, Venice | Italy | National |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Victoria University of Wellington | New Zealand | National |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Oregon State University | USA | National and seesaw |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | University of Alberta | Canada | National |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | University of Copenhagen | Denmark | National |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Co-Chair) | University of Bern | Switzerland | National and Oldest Ice |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | NIPR | Japan | National |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | University of Stockholm | Sweden | National |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Korea Polar Research Institute | Korea | National |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Norsk Polarinstitut | Norway | National |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Ice Coring and Drilling Services | USA | Drilling |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Catholic University of Chile | Chile | National |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | LSCE, Saclay | France | Terminations and seesaw |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute | Russia | National |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | NCAOR | India | National |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Alfred Wegener Institute | Germany | Logistics |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | British Antarctic Survey | UK | National and seesaws |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Université Grenoble Alpes | France | National |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | University of Innsbruck | Austria | National |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Paul Scherrer Institut | Switzerland | 2ka (non-polar) |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Scripps Institute of Oceanography | USA | Oldest Ice |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Nanjing University | China | 2ka |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS | Brazil | National |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | University of Venice | Italy | 2ka |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | University of Bern | Switzerland | 1.5 Ma |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Polar Research Institute of China | China | 1.5 Ma |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | British Antarctic Survey | UK | 2k |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Icelandic Met Office | Iceland | National |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Université Libre de Bruxelles | Belgium | National |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Tallinn University of Technology | Estonia | National |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | University of Utrecht | Netherlands | National |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Co-Chair) | Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC and Australian Antarctic Division | Australia | National |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Alfred Wegener Institute | Germany | National and Drilling |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Boston University / CRREL | USA | Ice Core Young Scientists |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | University of Cambridge | UK | Oldest Ice |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Polar Research Institute of China | China | National |
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