Support for West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Workshops and Web Site

Bindschadler/0642288该奖项是为了继续支持西南极冰盖（WAIS）项目长达15年的系列研讨会和网络展示，该项目专注于两个紧迫的全球问题-未来海平面和快速气候变化。该奖项包括加强对教育和推广的重视，同时保留经验证的技术，以支持在年度WAIS研讨会上进行积极的科学对话和交流。这一额外的重点是针对国际极地年引发的对极地研究的预期关注的增加，并为WAIS的所有研究人员提供一个明确的基础，使他们的具体研究能够与之联系起来。在国际冰年期间，这些讲习班还将与世界冰架研究协会的欧洲“孪生姐妹”-冰架过程研究论坛的讲习班合并，以加强重要研究发现的国际交流。该奖项的学术价值源于每年的WAIS研讨会提供的机会，通过聚集活跃的西南极洲科学家公开交流正在进行的工作，最新成果和当前观点，在大多数情况下，在科学期刊上发表之前。该奖项的广泛影响将体现在世界教育信息系统网站上提供的有吸引力和信息丰富的教育和宣传材料的增加。 在上一个资助期由补充资金发起，完成了原型网络内容，得到了WAIS社区、抽样受众和NSF项目官员的普遍认可，尽管沿着了一些建设性的改进建议。有了这个奖项，我们打算把这些建议，以及提供适当的网络标签，使网站完全符合508，包括隐藏字幕。我们还打算收集更多的视频和图像内容，以便每年改进和更新网站，提高网站向公众、媒体、教育工作者和决策者传播世界教育信息系统科学和成就的有效性。 WAIS组织一直是与NASA在冰盖研究方面的投资合作的活动。通过吸收美国航天局的外联专业人员，加强了这种伙伴关系，他们将领导扩大的教育和外联活动。通过担任美国宇航局冰盖遥感中心（CReSIS）的协调科学家，NSF的新极地科学技术中心，PI将确保WAIS活动及其教育和外展部分完全一致

Bindschadler/0642288This award is for continued support for the 15-year-long series of workshops and web presence for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) project that is focused on two urgent global issues--future sea level and rapid climate change. This award incorporates an enhanced emphasis on education and outreach while preserving the proven techniques for supporting vigorous scientific dialogue and exchange at annual WAIS workshops. The additional emphasis addresses an expected increase in attention to polar research triggered by the International Polar Year and serves to give all WAIS researchers a clearly articulated basis to which their specific research can be linked. Also during the IPY, the workshops will be merged with those of the Forum for Research into Ice Shelf Processes (FRISP), the European "twin" of WAIS, strengthening the international exchange of important research discoveries. The intellectual merit of this award stems from the opportunities the annual WAIS workshops provide by gathering active West Antarctica scientists for an open exchange of ongoing work, recent results and current views, in most cases prior to publication in scientific journals. The broader impacts of this award will be manifest by the increase in appealing and informative education and outreach material made available on the WAIS web site. Initiated by supplementary funding in the last grant period, prototype web content was completed that met with universal approval by the WAIS community, a sample audience, and a selection of NSF program officers, albeit along with some constructive suggestions for improvement. With this award, we intend to incorporate these suggestions as well as provide appropriate web-tags to make the site fully 508-compliant, including closed captioning. We also intend to collect additional video and graphic content to annually improve and update the site to increase its effectiveness in communicating WAIS science and accomplishments to the public, media, educators and policy makers. WAIS organization has always been an activity partnered with NASA's investments in ice-sheet research. This partnership is strengthened through the inclusion of NASA outreach professionals who will lead the expanded education and outreach activities. By serving as the NASA Coordination Scientist to the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), NSF's new polar Science and Technology Center, the PI will ensure that WAIS activities and its education and outreach component are fully consistent