Preparation for a Deep Ice Coring Project in West Antarctica

0230396TaylorPolar冰芯为社会相关问题提供了重要见解，冰芯结果支撑了许多全球变化研究。冰芯工作组（在国家冰芯实验室科学管理办公室的协调下，就与冰芯有关的问题向国家科学基金会和美国地质调查局提供指导）建议在南极洲西部一个被称为内陆地点的地方实施一个全社区的冰芯取样方案。 一个深冰芯将使气候和海平面变化和极端环境下的生命研究成为可能，并将有助于培养许多新的地球系统科学家。 该项目的目的是设计、建造和测试深冰取心钻，并进行从内陆地点采集深冰取心所需的其他准备工作。

0230396TaylorPolar ice cores provide critical insights to societally relevant issues and ice core results underpin much of global change research. The Ice Core Working Group (which, under the coordination of the National Ice Core Laboratory Science Management Office, provides guidance to the National Science Foundation and the United States Geological Survey on issues pertaining to ice cores) has recommended a community-wide ice-coring program in West Antarctica at a location referred to as the Inland Site. A deep ice core from there will enable studies of climate and sea-level change and life in extreme environments, and will help educate many new Earth-system scientists. This project is for the design, construction and testing of a deep-ice-coring drill, and for other preparations required to recover a deep ice core from the Inland Site.