Collaborative Proposal: Science Opportunities for a Multidisciplinary Long-Range Aircraft for Antarctic Research

该奖项为2004年9月举办的为期三天的研讨会提供支持，以制定远程研究飞机的科学论证。 该讲习班将汇集代表南极研究界对拥有一架用于现代航空地球物理学、冰川学、大气和海洋学科学的飞机感兴趣的科学家。 研讨会的具体目标是：1）为多学科远程研究飞机设施制定强有力的科学和实施计划; 2）编写一份高质量的研讨会报告，根据项目的范围产生必要的影响; 3）向AGU出版物EOS提交一篇文章，总结研讨会的讨论和建议，以确保尽可能广泛地传播。 这次讲习班的学术价值包括这样一个事实，即在各个领域（例如固体地球物理学、冰川学、大气科学）中有许多不同的问题只能用远程研究飞机来解决，如果没有这种飞机，就永远不会在推进这些科学领域方面取得进展。 在更广泛的影响方面，在国际地球物理年50周年前夕，广泛的社区对能够更深入地探索南极大陆的能力感兴趣。 定于2007-2009年即将到来的国际极地年将是激发公众对极地研究兴趣的一个极好机会，这种飞机将发挥重要作用，向南极洲许多地区运送新颖和全面的仪器，对大气层、冰盖、固体地球和海洋中发生的关键过程进行观测。 国际极地年还将为培养下一代极地科学家提供一个极好的机会，拥有一架远程飞机将使许多新的科学发现领域成为可能，而这些领域在目前没有这样的设施是不可能的。

This award provides support to host a three-day workshop in September 2004 to formulate a science justification for a long-range research aircraft. The workshop will bring together scientists representing the Antarctic research community's interest in having an aircraft for modern aerogeophysical, glaciological, atmospheric and oceanographic science. The specific goals of the workshop are to: 1) Develop a strong science and implementation plan for a multi-disciplinary long-range research aircraft facility; 2) Produce a high-quality workshop report that will create the necessary impact given the scope of the project and 3) Submit an article to the AGU publication EOS that summarizes the deliberation and recommendations of the workshop in order to ensure the widest possible dissemination. The intellectual merit of this workshop includes the fact that there are many different problems in a variety of fields (e.g. solid earth geophysics, glaciology, atmospheric sciences) that can only be addressed with a long-range research aircraft and without such an aircraft progress will never be made in advancing these areas of science. In terms of broader impacts, broad community interest in having the capability to enable a more in-depth exploration of the Antarctic continent comes on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the International Geophysical Year. The upcoming International Polar Year (IPY) scheduled for 2007-2009 will be a wonderful opportunity to excite the public about polar research and such an aircraft will play an important role by transporting novel and comprehensive instrumentation to many parts of Antarctica to provide observations of key processes taking place in the atmosphere, ice sheet, solid earth and in the oceans. IPY will also provide a wonderful opportunity to train the next generation of polar scientists and having a long-range aircraft will enable many new areas of scientific discovery which are not possible at the current time without such a facility.