Engineers at UW-Madison are teaming up with the National Science Foundation and two other universities to support ice-core drilling in Antarctica. The research is used to study climate change.
The Ice Drilling Program Office will oversee polar research at Dartmouth College, the University of New Hampshire, and UW-Madison. Emeritus professor of Geophysics Charles
Bentley says the new group will establish an annually updated five-year plan, to help them be more responsive to what researchers will need in the future. (11th item.)