Introduction to Ice Science Thousands of scientific papers have
been written on ice science and many scientists have devoted
their lives to the field. Many books have been written and
several of them are sill in print. Most of this work is related
to polar ice, glacial ice, ice physics, etc., however there are
a reasonable number of papers that are relevant to lake ice.
This section of the website looks a bit deeper into why ice
behaves the way it does. It tries to bridge the gap between the
rigorous scientific world and what we see on the ice. One of
best libraries anywhere for lake ice science is the Cold Regions
Research and Engineering Libratory, an Army Core of Engineers
laboratory, located in Hanover New Hampshire. CRREL scientists
have produced a great deal of the scientific work that has been
done on the ice we like to play on. Other hotbeds of ice
research are, as will come as no supprise, Scandanavia, Russia
and Canada. Ref (1) River Lake Ice Engineering Edited by G.
Ashton, Page 184, Water Resource