“There’s questions that we don’t know we should be asking yet.”

YouTube video by NSF Ice Drilling Program

The College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences is seeking a Director for Education for the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration NSF Science and Technology Center. This is a full-time (1.00 FTE), 12-month, professional faculty position. This position provides overall management of COLDEX educational programs including facilitating the logistics of programs delivered by partner institutions, working with COLDEX faculty to recruit students and post docs, leading the COLDEX research experience for undergraduates (REU) program, recruiting and supporting students and participants from diverse backgrounds, communicating with COLDEX participants about educational activities, working with the COLDEX evaluation team to track progress toward COLDEX educational goals, providing and facilitating mentorship for the COLDEX student and post doc community, and contributing to annual and other progress reports and to COLDEX meetings.

A global race is on to drill for the oldest known layers of Antarctic ice so researchers can peer back in time to a warmer climate to better understand the planet’s hotter future

Jacob Chalif is part of a three-month mission with COLDEX — the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration — searching to record the Earth's climate history through ancient ice.