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

该奖项将为国际冰川学会将于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、大气和生物圈相互作用的国际冰川学会研讨会提供部分资金，该讨论会是由国际冰川学会科学赞助的。IGS总部设在英国剑桥大学，是研究各种形式冰雪的科学家的专业协会。没有可与之媲美的全国性组织。国际冰川学会每年至少主办一次研讨会，发表在同行评议的《冰川年鉴》上。这次研讨会是及时的，因为自1990年以来就没有专门讨论海冰及其过程的研讨会，一些重大的多学科海冰项目将在未来两年内完成。专题讨论会将提供一个适当的论坛，以传播(例如)NSF/ONR联合北极地表热量预算计划、能源部大气辐射测量计划、NSF/ONR海底科学计划、位于Palmer站的NSF长期生态研究站点、正在进行的NASA基于卫星的研究以及NOAA赞助的北极海洋学研究。极地海冰既是气候变化的风向标，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物理、化学和生物过程，而不仅仅是冰的直接影响，因为这些过程在全球范围内是相互关联的。涉及实地调查、卫星遥感和数值模拟研究的跨学科研究将对增进我们对海冰的地球物理及其对全球环境的影响的知识作出重要贡献。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.