Science Management of the National Ice Core Laboratory

该奖项支持国家冰芯实验室科学管理办公室（NICL SMO）的持续运作。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，该工作组由代表冰芯研究人员和相关学科的研究人员组成，他们的研究利用或应用于冰芯研究。ICWG调查与冰芯研究相关的广泛主题，包括对国家冰芯实验室（NICL）的科学监督，样品获取和分发，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的运作并协调教育外展活动。这项活动的学术价值在于，冰芯在全球气候变化科学中起着至关重要的作用。NICL SMO在允许调查人员找到当前正在进行的研究信息以及如何获取冰芯样本方面发挥了独特的作用。NICL SMO协助新调查人员提取样品的技术，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。就更广泛的影响而言，冰芯科学解决了与地球气候系统相关的人类利益问题，包括全球变暖、气候突变、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，并有助于进一步研究冰芯。来自NICL档案的数据和解释将为决策者提供做出更好决策所需的信息，从而造福社会。

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.