Science Management of the National Ice Core Laboratory

Twickler/0635515该奖项支持国家冰芯实验室科学管理办公室(NICL SMO)继续运作。NICL SMO是对获取冰芯感兴趣的科学家的主要联络点，并负责协调和促进冰芯工作组(ICWG)的工作，该工作组是一个代表冰芯研究人员和其研究利用或适用于冰芯研究的相关学科的科学家小组。ICWG调查了与冰芯研究有关的广泛主题，包括对国家冰芯实验室(NICL)的科学监督、样本的获取和分发、库存、政策问题以及未来冰芯活动计划的制定。NICL SMO建议继续协助ICWG与科学界合作，编写报告，规划讲习班，监督NICL的业务并协调教育推广活动。这项活动的学术价值在于，冰芯在全球气候变化科学中发挥着关键作用。NICL SMO在允许调查人员找到关于当前正在进行的研究和如何获取冰芯样本的信息方面发挥了独特的作用。NICL SMO协助新的研究人员提取样本的技术，建议使用非接触冰进行方法开发，并随时可供咨询。通过向科学界提供这项服务，NICL SMO有助于增加保存在冰芯中的科学信息的传播。在更广泛的影响方面，冰芯科学解决了与地球气候系统有关的人类感兴趣的问题，包括全球变暖、气候突然变化、海平面变化和生物地球化学循环等。NICL-SMO为冰芯社区提供服务，并帮助促进对冰芯的进一步研究。来自NICL档案的数据和解释将为政策制定者提供必要的信息，以做出更好的决定，从而使社会受益。

Twickler/0635515This award supports the continued operation of the National Ice Core Laboratory Science Management Office (NICL SMO). NICL SMO serves as the primary point of contact for scientists interested in access to ice cores and is responsible for the coordination and facilitation of the Ice Core Working Group (ICWG), a group of scientists who represent ice core researchers and those in related disciplines whose research utilizes or applies to ice core research. The ICWG investigates a wide range of topics related to ice core research including scientific oversight of the National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL), sample access and distribution, inventory, policy issues and the development of plans for future ice core activities. NICL SMO proposes to continue assisting the ICWG in working with the scientific community, developing reports, planning workshops, oversight of NICL operations and coordinating educational outreach activities. The intellectual merit of this activity is that ice cores play a critical role in the science of global climate change. NICL SMO fills a unique role in allowing investigators a central point of contact to find information on current research being done and how to access ice core samples. NICL SMO assists new investigators in techniques for extracting samples, suggesting the use of de-accessed ice for method development and is readily available for consultation. By providing this service to the scientific community NICL SMO helps to increase the dissemination of scientific information preserved in ice cores. In terms of broader impacts, ice core science addresses questions of human interest related to the earth's climate system including global warming, abrupt climate change, changes in sea level, and biogeochemical cycling, among others. The NICL-SMO provides a service to the ice core community and helps facilitate further research on ice cores. The data and interpretations derived from NICL's archive will give policymakers the information necessary to make better decisions and will therefore benefit society.