About ICDS

Ice Coring and Drilling Services (ICDS), a unit of the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Wisconsin - Madison (UW), provides support for cold-regions research in both polar regions and at high altitude. ICDS maintains and operates existing equipment, and develops new systems when needed, to provide high quality ice core and boreholes that provide access to the interior and beds of ice sheets and glaciers for such purposes as embedding instruments, collecting gas samples, setting seismic charges, and studying subglacial processes.