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

该奖项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“海冰及其与海洋、大气和生物圈的相互作用”国际冰川学学会专题讨论会提供部分资金支持。IGS总部设在英国剑桥大学，是由研究各种形式冰雪的科学家组成的专业协会。没有可比的全国性组织。IGS每年至少赞助一次研讨会，其报告发表在同行评议的冰川学年鉴上。自1990年以来，还没有专门针对海冰及其过程的研讨会，因此这次研讨会是及时的，并且在未来两年内将完成一些主要的多学科海冰计划。研讨会将提供一个合适的论坛，以传播重要的新成果，例如：NSF/ONR北极项目的联合表面热预算，DOE大气辐射测量项目，NSF/ONR潜艇科学项目，NSF在帕尔默站的长期生态研究站点，正在进行的NASA卫星研究，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是相互关联的。包括实地调查、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地球物理学及其对全球环境影响的认识作出重要贡献。在这样的会议上传播研究成果将促进未来的合作研究，并使研究成果的效益最大化。

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.