Note: Intro -- Preface -- References -- Contents -- 1 Hot-Point Drills -- Abstract -- 1.1 Hot-Point Drills with a Fluid-Heating Medium -- 1.1.1 Calciati's Hot-Point Drill -- 1.1.2 ETH Lightweight Hot Point -- 1.1.3 Glacier Girl Recovery -- 1.1.4 IceCube Firn Drill -- 1.1.5 Coiled Hot Points for Drilling in Sea or Lake Ice -- 1.1.6 Summary -- 1.2 Electric-Heated Hot Points -- 1.2.1 NRC Ice Thickness Hot-Point Kit -- 1.2.2 Hot Point of the US Antarctic Service -- 1.2.3 Hot Point of the University of Cambridge -- 1.2.4 Nizery Hot Point -- 1.2.5 AINA Hot Points -- 1.2.6 E.P.F. Hot Point Drills -- 1.2.7 Hot Points of the Baffin Island Expedition -- 1.2.8 Caltech Hot Points -- 1.2.9 Hot Point of Oxford University -- 1.2.10 Granduc Mines Hot Point -- 1.2.11 Hot Points of the Cambridge Austerdalsbre Expedition -- 1.2.12 Hot Point Experiments in 4th-8th SAEs -- 1.2.13 Stacey Hot Point -- 1.2.14 Hot Point of Stockholm University -- 1.2.15 LaChapelle Silicon-Carbide Hot Point -- 1.2.16 Aamot Buoyancy-Stabilized Hot-Point Drill -- 1.2.17 Classen Hot Points -- 1.2.18 ETI-1 Hot Point and Modifications -- 1.2.19 Mikroteb-1 Hot Point -- 1.2.20 Speedograph and ETI Hot Point with Penetration Rate Recording -- 1.2.21 Taylor Hot Points -- 1.2.22 Hot Points of the Laboratoire de Glaciologie, CNRS -- 1.2.23 Hot Points of the University of Minnesota -- 1.2.24 The Simple Hot-Point of the Japanese Glaciological Expedition to Nepal -- 1.2.25 Hot Point of the Geological Survey of India -- 1.2.26 Grześ Hot Point -- 1.2.27 Climatopic Thermal Probe -- 1.2.28 Leningrad Mining Institute Hot Point -- 1.2.29 BGR Hot Point -- 1.2.30 Tohoku University Thermal Sonde -- 1.2.31 Hot Point of the Byrd Polar Research Center -- 1.2.32 Large-Diameter Electric-Heated Hot Points -- 1.2.33 Summary -- 1.3 Freezing-in Hot-Point Drills (Philberth Probes) -- 1.3.1 Subglacial Nuclear Autonomous Station. , 1.3.2 Philberth Probe -- 1.3.3 CRREL Pendulum Probe -- 1.3.4 Meltsonde Probe of the Australian Antarctic Division -- 1.3.5 PICO Thermal Probe (Hansen Probe) -- 1.3.6 Probes of the Snow and Ice Research Group -- 1.3.7 Sonde Under Shelf Ice (SUSI) -- 1.3.8 Recoverable Autonomous Sonde (RECAS) -- 1.3.9 Summary -- 1.4 Thermal Probes for Extraterrestrial Investigations -- 1.4.1 Cryobot -- 1.4.2 Subsurface Ice Probe (SIPR) -- 1.4.3 Modified SUSI Probe -- 1.4.4 Melting Probe of the Space Research Institute -- 1.4.5 Melting Probe of Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Space Research Institute -- 1.4.6 IceMole -- 1.4.7 VALKYRIE -- 1.4.8 SPINDLE -- 1.4.9 Ice Diver -- 1.4.10 IceShuttle Teredo -- 1.4.11 Summary -- References -- 2 Electric Thermal Coring Drills -- Abstract -- 2.1 Thermal Coring Drills Without Meltwater Removal Systems -- 2.1.1 Caltech Thermal Drill -- 2.1.2 Thermal Core Drill of the University of Iceland -- 2.1.3 Thermal Core Drill of the University of Washington -- 2.1.4 ETB-1 and LKTBM-1 Thermal Drills -- 2.1.5 MTBS Thermal Drills -- 2.1.6 Electrothermal Drill of the University of Minnesota/PICO/IDDO -- 2.1.7 Icedrill.ch Thermal Drill -- 2.1.8 Hot Jay Drill -- 2.1.9 Inductive Electro-Thermal Under-Ice Corer -- 2.1.10 Summary -- 2.2 Electrothermal Coring Drills for Open-Hole Drilling -- 2.2.1 CRREL Deep Thermal Drill -- 2.2.2 CRREL Portable Thermal Drill -- 2.2.3 ANARE Thermal Drill Developments and Experience -- 2.2.4 CRREL Large-Diameter Thermal Drill -- 2.2.5 ANARE Large-Diameter Thermal Drill -- 2.2.6 JARE Thermal Drills -- 2.2.7 TELGA Thermal Drills -- 2.2.8 LGGE Thermal Drill -- 2.2.9 ETB-140 (ETB-130) Thermal Drills -- 2.2.10 Summary -- 2.3 Electrothermal Coring Drills for Drilling with Borehole Fluids -- 2.3.1 CRREL Fluid-Type Thermal Drill -- 2.3.2 TBZS-152 (132) Thermal Drills -- 2.3.3 TBS-112VCh Thermal Drill. , 2.3.4 LGGE Fluid-Type Thermal Drills -- 2.3.5 Antifreeze Thermal Eclectic Drills -- 2.3.6 Summary -- References -- 3 Hot-Water Ice Drills -- Abstract -- 3.1 Hot-Water Systems for Near-Surface Drilling in Glaciers and Making Access Holes Through Sea and Lake Ice -- 3.1.1 PICO Shallow Hot-Water Drill -- 3.1.2 DREP Hot-Water Shallow Drills -- 3.1.3 Soviet/Russian Portable Hot-Water Drills -- 3.1.4 Unmanned Autonomous Hot-Water Ice Drill of the University of New Hampshire -- 3.1.5 Exxon Hot-Water Ice Drill -- 3.1.6 CRREL Portable Hot-Water Drilling System -- 3.1.7 Kovacs Small Hot-Water Drill -- 3.1.8 Shallow Hot-Water Drills for Seismic Surveys -- 3.1.9 IDDO Sediment-Laden Drill -- 3.1.10 Ice Drills for Making Large Holes in Sea Ice -- 3.1.10.1 University of Washington Ice Drills for Making Large holes in Sea Ice -- 3.1.10.2 CRREL Hot-Water Ring for Large-Diameter Holes -- 3.1.10.3 Thermal Hole Opener of Oceanographic Service, Inc. -- 3.1.10.4 DRDC Drills for Making Large Holes in Sea Ice -- 3.1.11 Summary -- 3.2 Shallow Hot-Water Ice-Drilling Systems -- 3.2.1 LGGE Shallow Hot-Water Drills -- 3.2.2 ETH Hot-Water Drill System -- 3.2.3 Hot-Water Drill of University of British Columbia, Canada -- 3.2.4 USGS Hot-Water Drill Systems -- 3.2.5 BAS Shallow Hot-Water Drill -- 3.2.6 Sweden Shallow Hot-Water Drill Systems -- 3.2.7 Hot-Water Drilling System of the Geological Survey of Greenland -- 3.2.8 Icefield Instruments Hot-Water Drilling System -- 3.2.9 Hot-Water Drilling System for Water Well Construction -- 3.2.10 Hot-Water Drill of Aberystwyth University, UK -- 3.2.11 Icelandic Hot-Water Drilling Systems -- 3.2.12 Shallow Hot-Water Drilling Systems of the University of Wyoming -- 3.2.13 ILTS Hot-Water Drilling Systems -- 3.2.14 ANDRILL Hot-Water Drill -- 3.2.15 ARA Hot-Water Drill System -- 3.2.16 JLU Shallow Hot-Water Drill -- 3.2.17 Summary. , 3.3 Intermediate Hot-Water Ice Drilling Systems -- 3.3.1 Browning Hot-Water Drill -- 3.3.2 PICO Intermediate Hot-Water Drilling System -- 3.3.3 ETH Intermediate-Depth Hot-Water Drilling System -- 3.3.4 AWI Hot-Water Drilling System -- 3.3.5 Caltech Hot-Water Drilling System -- 3.3.6 Norwegian Hot-Water Drilling System -- 3.3.7 BAS Intermediate-Depth Hot-Water Drilling Systems and Their Modifications -- 3.3.7.1 Initial BAS Intermediate-Depth Hot-Water Drilling System -- 3.3.7.2 Current BAS Intermediate-Depth Hot-Water Drilling System -- 3.3.7.3 BAS System in the Norwegian Polar Institute -- 3.3.7.4 Hot-Water Drilling at Store Glacier, Greenland -- 3.3.7.5 Hot-Water Drilling on Petermann Ice Shelf, Greenland -- 3.3.7.6 BAS System Used in the FISP Project -- 3.3.7.7 Hot-Water Drilling System of Victoria University of Wellington -- 3.3.8 Hot-Water Drilling System of the University of Alaska-Fairbanks -- 3.3.9 AMISOR Hot-Water Drilling System -- 3.3.10 WISSARD Hot-Water Drill -- 3.3.11 Intermediate-Depth Hot-Water Drilling System of the University of Wyoming -- 3.3.12 Summary -- 3.4 Deep Hot-Water Ice-Drilling Systems -- 3.4.1 AMANDA Project, South Pole -- 3.4.2 IceCube Project, South Pole -- 3.4.3 RABID Project, Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica -- 3.4.4 Clean Access to Subglacial Lake Ellsworth, Antarctica -- 3.4.5 BEAMISH Project, Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica -- 3.4.6 Chinese Hot-Water Deep Drilling Project at Amery Ice Shelf -- 3.4.7 Summary -- 3.5 Coring Ice Drills with an Intermediate Heat-Transfer Agent -- 3.5.1 Browning Hot-Water Coring Drill -- 3.5.2 IGSFE Ice-Coring Device -- 3.5.3 Caltech Hot-Water Ice-Coring Drill and Its Modifications -- 3.5.4 SPSMI Hydrothermal Ice-Core Drill -- 3.5.5 Summary -- References -- 4 Steam Ice Drills -- Abstract -- 4.1 Portable Steam Ice Drills -- 4.1.1 Voyeykov's Steam Drill -- 4.1.2 Howorka and NVE Steam Drills. , 4.1.3 Steam Drill of the University of Washington -- 4.1.4 Steam Drill of the Laboratoire de Glaciologie -- 4.1.5 JARE Steam Drill -- 4.1.6 Heucke Steam Drill -- 4.1.7 Danish Steam Drill -- 4.2 Large-Diameter Steam Drills -- 4.2.1 Rodriguez Wells -- 4.2.2 JARE Large-Diameter Steam Drill -- 4.3 Steam Ice-Coring Drills -- 4.4 Summary -- References -- 5 Perspectives for Future Development of Thermal Ice-Drilling Technology -- Abstract -- 5.1 Unconventional Thermal Ice-Drilling Methods -- 5.1.1 Dissolution Drilling -- 5.1.2 Flame-Jet Drilling -- 5.1.3 Laser Ice Drilling -- 5.2 New Heating Technologies -- 5.3 Directional Thermal Drilling -- 5.4 Automated Thermal Drilling Systems and Power Supply -- 5.5 Summary -- References -- Appendix_1 -- Appendix_2.

Note: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction to Ice Drilling Technology -- 1.1Ice Drilling Targets and Aims -- 1.2Structure of Ice Sheets and Glaciers -- 1.3Classification of Ice Drilling Methods -- References -- 2 Yearly History of Ice Drilling from Nineteeth to the First Half of Twentieth Century -- References -- 3 Direct-Push Drilling -- 3.1Drive Sampling -- 3.1.1 Basic Principles -- 3.1.2 Mt. Rose Sampler -- 3.1.3 Utah Snow Sampler -- 3.1.4 Federal Snow Sampler -- 3.1.5 Bowman Sampler -- 3.1.6 Rosen Sampler -- 3.1.7 Large Diameter Snow Samplers -- 3.1.8 Vibratory Drill -- 3.2Penetrative Testing -- 3.2.1 Ski Pole Penetrometer -- 3.2.2 Ram Penetrometer -- 3.2.3 Snow Resistograph -- 3.2.4 Digital Thermo-Resistograph -- 3.2.5 Snow Micro-Penetrometer -- 3.2.6 SABRE Probe -- 3.2.7 Cone Penetrometer Testing -- 3.3Summary -- References -- 4 Hand- and Power-Driven Portable Drills -- 4.1Noncoring Augers -- 4.1.1 SFFEL Noncoring Auger -- 4.1.2 SIPRE/CRREL Ice Thickness Kit -- 4.1.3 Kovacs Ice Thickness Kit -- 4.1.4 AARI Portable Sled-Mounted Drilling Rig -- 4.1.5 Handheld Coal-Boring Augers -- 4.1.6 Ice Augers for Winter Fishing -- 4.2Noncoring "Piston" Drills -- 4.3Core Augers -- 4.3.1 General Principles -- 4.3.2 SFFEL Auger -- 4.3.3 SIPRE Auger -- 4.3.4 CRREL Auger -- 4.3.5 Rand Auger -- 4.3.6 Big John 12″ Auger -- 4.3.7 PICO Lightweight Auger -- 4.3.8 Kovacs Auger -- 4.3.9 IGAS Hand Auger -- 4.3.10 Swiss Hand Auger -- 4.3.11 UCPH Hand Auger -- 4.3.12 "Prairie Dog" Auger -- 4.3.13 "Sidewinder" -- 4.3.14 IDDO Hand Auger -- 4.4Core Drills with Teeth and Annular Bits -- 4.4.1 Taku Glacier Hand Drill -- 4.4.2 Canadian Portable Ice Drill -- 4.4.3 Tsykin's Hand Drill -- 4.4.4 5th CAE Drill -- 4.4.5 Ice Core Drill with Annular Bit PI-8 -- 4.5Mini Drills -- 4.5.1 Livingston Island Mini Drill -- 4.5.2 Chipmunk Drill -- 4.6Summary -- References. , 5 Percussion Drills -- 5.1Cable-Tool Drill Rigs -- 5.1.1 IGAS Cable-Tool Rig -- 5.1.2 Cable-Tool of California Institute of Technology -- 5.1.3 Star Iron Works Cable-Tool -- 5.2Pneumatic Drills -- 5.3Rotary-Percussion Drills -- 5.4Summary -- References -- 6 Conventional Machine-Driven Rotary Drill Rigs -- 6.1Dry Drilling -- 6.1.1 Expéditions Polaires Françaises in Greenland -- 6.1.2 Baffin Island Expedition -- 6.1.3 Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition -- 6.1.4 Mirny Station, Antarctica -- 6.2Auger Drilling -- 6.2.1 Mirny Station, Antarctica -- 6.2.2 McMurdo Station, Antarctica -- 6.2.3 Amundsen-Scott Station, South Pole -- 6.2.4 Subglacial Lake Ellsworth Camp -- 6.3Commercial Drill Rigs for Ice Fishing -- 6.4Air Rotary Drilling -- 6.4.1 Mirny, Antarctica -- 6.4.2 Site 2, Greenland -- 6.4.3 Byrd Station, Antarctica -- 6.4.4 Little America V, Antarctica -- 6.4.5 Franz Josef Land, Russian Arctic -- 6.4.6 Base Roi Baudouin, Antarctica -- 6.5Rotary Drilling with Fluid Circulation -- 6.5.1 Taku Glacier, Alaska -- 6.5.2 Mer de Glace, French Alps -- 6.5.3 South Leduc Glacier, British Columbia -- 6.5.4 McMurdo Station, Antarctica -- 6.6Wire-Line Drills -- 6.6.1 International Antarctic Glaciological Project, East Antarctica -- 6.6.2 Ross Ice Shelf Project -- 6.6.3 Base Druzhnaya, Antarctica -- 6.6.4 Black Rapids Glacier, Alaska -- 6.6.5 Isua Greenstone Belt, Southwestern Greenland -- 6.6.6 Foremore Glacier, British Columbia, Western Canada -- 6.6.7 Rapid Access Ice Drill (RAID) -- 6.6.8 Agile Sub-ice Geological (ASIG) Drill -- 6.7Drilling in Rock Glaciers -- 6.7.1 Overview of Projects Using Conventional Drilling Equipment -- 6.7.2 Koci Drill -- 6.8Summary -- References -- 7 Flexible Drill-Stem Drill Rigs -- 7.1Rapid Shallow Drill Rigs -- 7.2Rapid-Access Drill Rigs -- 7.2.1 Thermomechanical Drill -- 7.2.2 Coiled-Tubing Drill Rigs. , 7.2.3 RADIX -- 7.2.4 SUBGLACIOR Drilling Probe -- 7.3Summary -- References -- 8 Cable-Suspended Electromechanical Auger Drills -- 8.1Basic Principles -- 8.2University of Iceland (UI) Drill -- 8.3University of Bern (UB) Drills -- 8.3.1 Rufli Drill -- 8.3.2 Further Improved UB Drills -- 8.4CRREL Drill -- 8.5Institute of Low Temperature Science (ILTS) Drills -- 8.5.1 First Prototypes -- 8.5.2 ID-140 Drill -- 8.5.3 ILTS-140 Drill -- 8.5.4 MID-140 Drill -- 8.5.5 Portable ILTS-130 and -100 Drills -- 8.5.6 ILTS-130E(F) and ILTS-150 Drills -- 8.5.7 New Portable ILTS Drill -- 8.6University of Copenhagen (UCPH) Drill -- 8.7Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement (LGGE) Drills -- 8.8National Hydrology Research Institute (NHRI) Drill -- 8.9Polar Ice Coring Office (PICO) 4″ Drill -- 8.10Alfred-Wegener Institute (AWI) Drills -- 8.11Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) Drill -- 8.12BZXJ Drills -- 8.13Geo Tecs Drills -- 8.13.1 Geo Tecs Prototype Shallow Drill -- 8.13.2 Further Improvements -- 8.13.3 Field Testing and Operations -- 8.14Hilda/Simon/Eclipse Drills -- 8.14.1 Hilda/Simon Drills -- 8.14.2 Eclipse Drill -- 8.14.3 Field Testing and Coring -- 8.14.4 Badger-Eclipse Drill -- 8.15Byrd Polar Research Center (BPRC) Drills -- 8.16British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Drills -- 8.16.1 BAS/IMAU Drill -- 8.16.2 Rapid-Access Isotope Drill -- 8.17FELICS Drills -- 8.17.1 3″ Drill -- 8.17.2 "Backpack Drill" -- 8.18Blue Ice Drill (BID) -- 8.18.1 BID General Fescription -- 8.18.2 Operation and Performance -- 8.18.3 BID-Deep System -- 8.19Summary -- References -- 9 Cable-Suspended Electromechanical Drills with Bottom-Hole Circulation -- 9.1CRREL Electromechanical Drill -- 9.1.1 Drilling Equipment -- 9.1.2 Camp Century, Greenland -- 9.1.3 Byrd Station, Antarctica -- 9.2ISTUK Drill -- 9.2.1 Drill System. , 9.2.2 Dye 3, Greenland (GISP) -- 9.2.3 Summit, Greenland (GRIP) -- 9.2.4 Law Dome, Antarctica -- 9.3LGGE Electromechanical Drills -- 9.4PICO-5.2″ Electromechanical Drill -- 9.4.1 Drill System -- 9.4.2 Summit, Greenland (GISP2) -- 9.4.3 Taylor Dome, Antarctica -- 9.4.4 Siple Dome, Antarctica -- 9.5KEMS Electromechanical Drill -- 9.5.1 Drill System -- 9.5.2 Severnaya Zemlya, Russian Arctic -- 9.5.3 Vostok Station, Antarctica -- 9.6JARE Electromechanical Drill -- 9.6.1 Drill System -- 9.6.2 Preliminary Tests -- 9.6.3 First Deep Ice Coring Project at Dome F, Antarctica -- 9.6.4 Second Deep Ice Coring Project at Dome F, Antarctica -- 9.6.5 Kunlun Station (Dome A), Antarctica -- 9.7Hans Tausen (HT) Electromechanical Drill and Its Modifications -- 9.7.1 Basic Drill System -- 9.7.2 Hans Tausen Ice Cap, Greenland -- 9.7.3 NorthGRIP, Greenland -- 9.7.4 EPICA Dome C, Antarctica -- 9.7.5 EPICA-DML, Kohnen Station, Antarctica -- 9.7.6 Berkner Island, Antarctica -- 9.7.7 Talos Dome, Antarctica (TALDICE) -- 9.7.8 Flade Isblink Ice Cap, Greenland -- 9.7.9 NEEM Deep Ice Core Drilling, Greenland -- 9.7.10 James Ross Island, Antarctica -- 9.7.11 Fletcher Promontory, Antarctica -- 9.7.12 Roosevelt Island, Antarctica -- 9.7.13 NEEM, Greenland (UCPH Intermediate-Depth Ice Core Drilling System) -- 9.7.14 Aurora Basin North, Antarctica -- 9.7.15 Renland Ice Cap, Greenland -- 9.7.16 Summit, Greenland (IDDO Intermediate-Depth Drill) -- 9.7.17 South Pole, Antarctica (SPICE) -- 9.8IDRA Drill -- 9.9DISC Electromechanical Drill -- 9.9.1 Drill System -- 9.9.2 Field Testing at Summit, Greenland -- 9.9.3 WAIS Divide, Antarctica -- 9.9.4 Replicate Coring, WAIS Divide, Antarctica -- 9.10IBED Drill -- 9.11Summary -- References -- 10 Drilling Challenges and Perspectives for Future Development -- 10.1Low-Temperature Drilling Fluids -- 10.1.1 Drilling Fluid Compositions. , 10.1.2 ESTISOL™ 240/COASOL™ Drilling Fluid -- 10.1.3 ESTISOL™ 140 Drilling Fluid -- 10.1.4 Low-Molecular Weight Dimethyl Siloxane Oils -- 10.1.5 Low-Molecular Weight Esters -- 10.1.6 Kerosene-Based Drilling Fluids Mixed with Fourth-Generation Foam-Expansion Agents -- 10.2Ice Drilling Under Complicated Conditions -- 10.2.1 Permeable Snow-Firn -- 10.2.2 Brittle Ice Zone -- 10.2.3 Warm Ice -- 10.2.4 Debris-Containing Ice -- 10.2.5 Bedrock -- 10.2.6 Elimination of Sticking Drills -- 10.3Advanced Drilling Systems -- 10.3.1 Rapid-Access Ice Drilling Systems for Subglacial Bedrock Drilling -- 10.3.2 Sidewall Drilling -- 10.3.3 Automated Drilling Systems -- References -- Appendix ARecords of Mechanical Drilling in Ice -- Appendix BAbbreviations of Institutes, Organizations,and Projects.