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

该奖项是为了继续支持为期15年的一系列研讨会和南极西部冰盖（WAIS）项目的网络存在，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。该奖项加强了对教育和推广的重视，同时保留了在WAIS年度研讨会上支持积极的科学对话和交流的成熟技术。额外强调的是国际极地年所引起的对极地研究的注意预期会增加，并有助于为所有西非研究系统的研究人员提供一个明确的基础，使他们的具体研究能够联系起来。在国际极地年期间，这些讲习班将与冰架过程研究论坛（WAIS的欧洲“孪生兄弟”）的讲习班合并，加强重要研究发现的国际交流。该奖项的知识价值源于每年的WAIS研讨会提供的机会，聚集活跃的西南极洲科学家，公开交流正在进行的工作、最近的结果和当前的观点，大多数情况下是在科学期刊上发表之前。该奖项的更广泛影响将体现在WAIS网站上提供的更具吸引力和信息丰富的教育和推广材料的增加。在最后一个拨款期间，由补充资金发起，原型网络内容已经完成，并得到了WAIS社区、样本受众和选定的NSF项目官员的普遍认可，尽管还有一些建设性的改进建议。有了这个奖项，我们打算结合这些建议，并提供适当的网页标签，使网站完全符合508标准，包括封闭字幕。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组织一直与美国宇航局在冰盖研究方面的投资合作。这种伙伴关系通过纳入NASA外展专业人员而得到加强，他们将领导扩大的教育和外展活动。作为美国国家科学基金会新成立的极地科学技术中心——冰盖遥感中心（CReSIS）的NASA协调科学家，PI将确保WAIS活动及其教育和推广部分完全一致

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