Symposium on Sea Ice and Its Interactions with the Ocean, Atmosphere, and Biosphere

这笔奖金将为国际冰川学学会将于2000年6月在阿拉斯加费尔班克斯举行的关于海冰及其与海洋、大气层和生物圈的相互作用的专题讨论会提供部分资助，该讨论会将由国际冰川学学会科学赞助。 位于英国剑桥大学的IGS是研究各种形式冰雪的科学家的专业协会。 没有类似的国家组织。 IGS每年至少赞助一次研讨会，并在同行评审的《冰川学年鉴》上发表演讲。 自1990年以来，还没有专门讨论海冰及其过程的专题讨论会，因此这次研讨会是及时的，今后两年内将完成一些重大的多学科海冰计划。 专题讨论会将提供一个适当的论坛，传播下列方面的重要新成果：美国国家科学基金会/海洋研究所北极地区表面热量收支联合计划、美国能源部大气辐射测量计划、美国国家科学基金会/海洋研究所潜艇科学计划、美国国家科学基金会在帕尔默站的长期生态研究基地、正在进行的美国宇航局卫星研究以及美国国家海洋和大气管理局赞助的北极海洋学研究。 极地海冰既是气候变化的领头羊，也是气候变化的推动者。 气候变化对地球海冰覆盖特征的影响将影响到冰的直接影响之外的物理、化学和生物过程，因为这些过程在全球范围内相互关联。 涉及实地调查、卫星遥感和数值模拟研究相结合的跨学科研究将为增加我们对海冰物理学及其对全球环境影响的了解作出重要贡献。 在这样的会议上传播研究成果将促进未来的合作研究，并最大限度地发挥研究成果的效益。

This award will provide funds for the partial support of an International Glaciology Society symposium on Sea Ice and its Interaction with the Ocean, Atmosphere, and Biosphere, to be held in Fairbanks, Alaska, in June 2000 under the scientific sponsorship of the International Glaciology Society. The IGS, based at Cambridge University, England, is the professional society for scientists who study snow and ice in all its forms. There is no comparable national organization. The IGS sponsors at least one symposium annually, with the presentations published in the peer-reviewed Annals of Glaciology. This symposium is timely since there has not been a symposium dedicated solely to sea ice and its processes since 1990, and a number of major multi- disciplinary sea ice programs will have been completed within the next two years. The symposium will provide a suitable forum for the dissemination of significant new results from (e.g.) the joint NSF/ONR Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic program, the DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program, the NSF/ONR submarine science program, the NSF Long-term Ecological Research site at Palmer Station, ongoing NASA satellite-based studies, and NOAA -sponsored arctic oceanographic research. Polar sea ice is both a bellwether and an agent of climate change. The effects of climate change on the characteristics of the Earth's sea ice cover will affect the physical, chemical, and biological processes beyond the immediate influence of the ice because these processes are interlinked on a global scale. Interdisciplinary studies involving a combination of field investigations, satellite-based remote sensing, and numerical modelling studies will make important contributions to increasing our knowledge of the geophysics of sea ice and its impacts on the global environment. Dissemination of research results at conferences such as this will promote future cooperative research, and maximize the benefits of research results.