Get Involved

Like all major ice-drilling operations in the United States Antarctic Program, the Hercules Dome project is a community platform.

The current logistics timeline has the first traverse to Hercules Dome starting no sooner than the 2027/2028 field season. That places the first full drilling season in austral summer 2029/2030. The long lead time means that there are many opportunities to get involved. View the project timeline for the latest schedule of anticipated activities.

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US Ice Core Community Meeting 2025

The fourth annual US Ice Core Community Meeting (IceCOMM) will be held May 12-14, 2025, at the Coffman Memorial Union in the Mississippi Room in Minneapolis, MN. We appreciate support from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Abstract and early registration deadline is March 28. This meeting is intended for anyone interested in ice core science or related fields, including ice-core analysis, ice and/or subglacial drilling, glacier geophysics that supports or depends on ice core records, paleoenvironmental reconstructions, and contemporary environmental change and ice sheet change. To ensure you do not miss announcements, we recommend joining the Hercules Dome mailing list.

ICECReW 2025

The NSF Center for Oldest Ice Exploration (NSF COLDEX) and ICECReW are partnering to host a writing workshop and retreat on May 15 and 16, 2025, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after the US Ice Core Community Meeting (May 12-14). The theme of this year’s workshop is science writing, including making figures to communicate results, responding to peer reviews, how to structure papers, and deciding on journals and authorship. The workshop will also provide time for writing and peer review, and participants should bring materials they would like to work on (e.g., papers, dissertations, fellowship and grant applications). Application Deadline: February 6, 2025.