Date

Multiple Resources Available

  1. Newsletter Available
    NSIDC Notes, Spring 2011
    National Snow and Ice Data Center

  2. Proceedings Available Online
    6th Canadian Permafrost Conference

  3. Newsletter Available
    IDPO Ice Bits, Spring 2011
    Ice Drilling Program Office


  1. Newsletter Available
    NSIDC Notes, Spring 2011
    National Snow and Ice Data Center

The 2011 spring issue, Number 75, of the National Snow and Ice Data
Center (NSIDC) publication is available online. NSIDC Notes is published
quarterly in electronic format, and can be accessed as a PDF file at:
http://nsidc.org/pubs/notes/. Archived versions of the newsletter are
also available at the website.

Selected items in this issue include:

- Study published on carbon in permafrost;
- Green Data Center update;
- Upcoming meetings attended by NSIDC staff; and
- New products and data set updates.

To subscribe to the Notes notification list, please email:
nsidc [at] nsidc.org.

For further information, please go to:
http://nsidc.org/pubs/notes/.


  1. Proceedings Available Online
    6th Canadian Permafrost Conference

The proceedings of the 6th Canadian Permafrost Conference are now
available for viewing and searching on the Canadian Permafrost
Conferences website, at: http://www.aina.ucalgary.ca/cpc.

The Canadian Permafrost Conferences website contains the proceedings of
all six Canadian Permafrost Conferences (1962, 1964, 1969, 1981, 1990,
and 2010). PDF files of the papers from each proceedings can be viewed
sequentially, and a database describing the 256 papers can be searched
for words in titles and abstracts, broad or detailed subject and
geographic categories, authors, and conference numbers. All of the
records in this database are also available in the main Arctic Science
and Technology Information System (ASTIS) database
(http://www.aina.ucalgary.ca/astis) and in relevant ASTIS subset
databases.

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada funded the indexing of the 6th
Canadian Permafrost Conference proceedings. The Geological Survey of
Canada (Natural Resources Canada) digitized the proceedings of the first
five conferences and funded their indexing. ASTIS (Arctic Institute of
North America, University of Calgary) indexed the proceedings and
created the website. Support for this initiative is provided by the
Canadian National Committee for the International Permafrost
Association.

To view or search the proceedings, please go to:
http://www.aina.ucalgary.ca/cpc.

For further information, please contact:
Ross Goodwin
Email: rgoodwin [at] ucalgary.ca


  1. Newsletter Available
    IDPO Ice Bits, Spring 2011
    Ice Drilling Program Office

The spring 2011 issue of the Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO)
newsletter Ice Bits is available online. Ice Bits, an update of IDPO and
Ice Drilling Design and Operations activities, is published quarterly in
electronic format and can be accessed as a PDF file, at:
http://www.icedrill.org/news/index.shtml#182.

Selected items in this issue include:

- Overview of IDPO and IDDO Activities During the Quarter;
- Highlight: Deepest U.S. Ice Core Drilled in West Antarctica;
- Highlight: New Drilling Technology Enables Study of Ancient
Atmospheres;
- Highlight: Unique Ice Drilling Technology Developed for Increased
Sampling of Key Events;
- 2011 Long Range Science Plan: Request for Community Input/Comments;
- Science Planning Workshop Review;
- Drilling Support to Arctic Field Projects; and
- Requesting Ice Drilling Support.

For further information, please go to:
http://www.icedrill.org.