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

该奖项支持美国国家冰芯实验室(NICL)为期两年的延续，该实验室成立于1993年，是一个联合资助的机构，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。国家冰芯实验室的学术价值在于它为冰芯研究界提供的服务，它为国家从极地地区采集的冰芯提供了一个安全和受控的环境；使客户可以方便地获取收集的冰芯的清单记录；并与新汉普郡大学的NICL科学管理办公室和冰芯工作组协调工作，确保这些冰芯可以被NICL或其本国机构的合格调查人员研究。在这些核心上进行的研究为当今世界相当大比例的气候变化研究提供了科学基础。NICL开展的活动的更广泛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、来访的内阁级政要、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特写制作人。在所有情况下，NICL都努力教育公众关于气候变化研究的意义和冰芯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，为当前和未来的研究活动利用实验室的设施和培训仪器。

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.