***PLEASE NOTE YOU MUST IDENTIFY A DIFFERENT PRESENTER FOR THIS ABSTRACT.  YOU MAY PRESENT ONE PAPER ONLY (ORAL OR POSTER) AT THE CONFERENCE.  YOU ARE LISTED AS PRESENTER FOR ABSTRACT #278***Energetic collisions between gas-phase atoms or molecules and ice surfaces are ubiquitous in nature. Such collisions occur under non-equilibrium conditions given the disparity between the temperature of the substrate and that of the incident species. Moreover, metastable absorption states can be accessed at sufficiently high collision energies, opening up enhanced channels for species collection and concentration. Here, we present results of a study where the energetically accessed absorption states of the network of molecules in an ice surface were probed with translationally activated gas-phase Xe atoms, focusing on sputtering, energy accommodation, and a new mechanism for the incorporation of volatile species into ice surfaces: collisionally activated embedding. Evidence for embedding comes from the observation of Xe desorption at temperatures nearly 100 K above the normal desorption temperature for xenon adsorbed onto an ice surface.