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

Bindschadler/0642288该奖项是为了表彰对西南极冰盖(WAIS)项目长达15年的一系列研讨会和网络存在的持续支持，该项目的重点是两个紧迫的全球问题--未来海平面和快速气候变化。这一奖项加强了对教育和外联的重视，同时保留了在WAIS年度讲习班上支持活跃的科学对话和交流的成熟技术。这一额外的强调是针对国际极地年引发的对极地研究的关注预期增加的问题，并有助于为世界北极年的所有研究人员提供一个明确的基础，使他们的具体研究可以与之联系起来。同样在国际海洋年期间，这些讲习班将与冰架过程研究论坛(FRISP)的讲习班合并，后者是世界海洋资料系统的欧洲“姊妹”，以加强重要研究发现的国际交流。该奖项的学术价值来自于WAIS年度讲习班提供的机会，通过聚集活跃的西南极科学家公开交流正在进行的工作、最新成果和当前观点，在大多数情况下是在科学期刊上发表之前。这一奖项的更广泛影响将体现在WAIS网站上提供的更多具有吸引力和信息量的教育和宣传材料上。在上一个赠款期间由补充资金发起，完成了原型网络内容，得到了WAIS社区、样本受众和一些NSF项目官员的普遍认可，尽管还提出了一些建设性的改进建议。有了这个奖项，我们打算纳入这些建议，并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形内容，以每年改进和更新该网站，以提高其向公众、媒体、教育工作者和政策制定者传播WAIS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。通过纳入将领导扩大的教育和外联活动的美国航天局外联专业人员，加强了这一伙伴关系。通过担任美国国家航空航天局冰盖遥感中心(CReSIS)的协调科学家，PPI将确保WAIS的活动及其教育和外联部分完全一致

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