Antarctic Sea Ice Thickness: Travel Support for Workshop Attendance

该项目将为包括研究生在内的6名美国研究人员提供差旅支持，以参加定于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关于南极海冰厚度的研讨会。国际科学理事会/气象组织国际极地年联合指导委员会已核准国际极地年南极海冰作为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的海冰厚度数据收集工作，使用空中、卫星和地面方法，并将包括对各种方法收集的数据集进行存档、综合和质量控制的规划。参加研讨会将加强美国科学家和活跃在海冰研究领域的其他国家科学家之间的现有战略联盟，并建立新的战略联盟。它还将提供更多获得新技术的机会，并满足美国南极计划的关键目标。研讨会将提供一个论坛，以确定我们在南极海冰知识方面的主要差距，并考虑未来的实地活动和验证实验，以解决这些差距。这次研讨会的目的之一是集中于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的研究计划。

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.