Operation and Maintenance of the U.S. National Ice Core Laboratory

0637211 Shumann该奖项支持美国国家冰芯实验室（NICL）的两年延续，该实验室成立于1993年，是一个联合资助的设施，用于管理和传播通过国家科学基金会（NSF），极地计划办公室和美国地质调查局地质学科的计划活动收集的冰芯。 国家冰芯实验室的智力价值在于它向冰芯研究界提供服务，为国家收集从极地地区取得的冰芯提供一个有保障和受控制的环境;使客户能够方便地查阅所收集冰芯的库存记录;并且，与新罕布什尔州大学的NICL科学管理办公室和冰芯工作组合作，通过确保这些核心可以由合格的研究人员在NICL或其所在机构进行测试和测量来进行研究。对这些岩芯进行的研究为当今世界很大一部分气候变化研究提供了科学依据。 在NICL开展的活动的更广泛的影响是通过外联活动实现的，这些活动涵盖了从小学到研究生一级的广泛的学生群体、博物馆团体、专业团体、国际科学家、来访的国会议员和国会工作人员、来访的内阁一级要人、来自其他联邦机构的团体以及地方、国家和国际新闻和科学专题制作人。 在所有情况下，NICL致力于教育公众气候变化研究的意义和冰核研究在全球变化的更广泛背景下的作用，同时为学生提供机会，利用实验室的设施和仪器培训，用于当前和未来的研究活动。

0637211ShumannThis award supports a two year continuation of the U.S. National Ice Core Laboratory (NICL), established in 1993 as a jointly-funded facility for the curation and dissemination of ice cores collected through the programmatic activities of the National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Polar Programs, and the U.S. Geological Survey, Geology Discipline. The intellectual merit of the National Ice Core Laboratory resides in the service it renders to the ice core research community by providing a safeguarded and controlled environment for the nation's collection of ice cores taken from the polar regions; by making inventory records for the collection easily accessible by clients; and, working in concert with both the NICL Science Management Office at the University of New Hampshire and the Ice Core Working Group, by ensuring that these cores can be secured for research by qualified investigators for testing and measurement either at NICL or at their home institution. The research conducted on these cores provides the scientific basis for a significant proportion of climate change research in the world today. The broader impacts of the activities carried out at NICL are accomplished through outreach activities that encompass a broad segment of student populations from grade school through graduate-level, museum groups, professional groups, international scientists, visiting members of Congress and Congressional staffers, visiting Cabinet-level dignitaries, groups from other federal agencies, and local, national, and international news and science feature producers. In all instances NICL strives to educate the public on the significance of climate change research and the role of ice core research within the broader context of global change while providing students with the opportunity to utilize the facilities and train on instrumentation at the lab for current and future research activities.