Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness: Travel Support for Workshop Attendance

该项目将为包括研究生在内的六名美国调查人员提供旅费支助，以便他们参加定于2006年7月5日至7日在澳大利亚塔斯马尼亚州霍巴特举行的南极海冰厚度讲习班。 科联理事会/气象组织国际极地年联合指导委员会已批准国际极地年的南极海冰作为2007-2009年国际极地年期间南极海冰的协调项目。 该讲习班将开始协调计划中的利用航空、卫星和地面方法收集海冰厚度数据的工作，并将包括规划利用各种方法收集的数据集的存档、综合和质量控制。参加这次研讨会将加强美国科学家和其他国家活跃在海冰研究领域的科学家之间现有的战略联盟，并建立新的战略联盟。它还将提供更多的新技术，并解决美国南极计划的关键目标。 该研讨会将提供一个论坛，以确定我们对南极海冰的知识的主要差距，并考虑未来的实地活动和验证实验，以解决这些问题。本次研讨会的目的之一是关注测量海冰厚度的新兴技术，并建立将这些技术联系在一起的新研究计划。

This project will provide travel support for six US investigators, including graduate students, to participate in a workshop on Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness, scheduled for 5-7 July 2006, in conjunction with the SCAR meetings in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The ICSU/WMO Joint Steering Committee for the International Polar Year has approved Antarctic Sea Ice in IPY, as the coordinating project on antarctic sea ice for the IPY period 2007-2009. This workshop will start the coordination of planned data collection efforts on sea ice thickness, using airborne, satellite and surface methods, and will include planning for the archiving, synthesis and quality control of the data sets collected by various methodologies. Participation in the workshop will strengthen existing, and establish new, strategic alliances between US scientists and scientists from other countries active in sea ice research. It will also provide increased access to new technologies and address key objectives within the US Antarctic Program. The workshop will provide a forum to identify key gaps in our knowledge of antarctic sea ice, and to consider future field campaigns and validation experiments to address these. One aim of this workshop is to focus on emerging technologies for measuring sea ice thickness, and to establish new research programs that link these technologies together.