Collaborative Research: Integrated High Resolution Chemical and Biological Measurements on the Deep WAIS Divide Core

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该奖项支持一个项目，该项目利用WAIS Divide深层岩芯，通过一套综合的化学和生物分析，以次年分辨率调查最后一次冰川消融。该项目的智力优势在于，这些分析与其他分析相结合，将利用高积雪的WAIS分水岭地点，产生南极深层冰芯中最高时间分辨率的冰川-生物地球化学和气体记录。结合其他高分辨率格陵兰核（GISP2和GRIP）和低分辨率南极核，综合记录将对全球气候动力学和突变产生新的见解。提出的化学、生物和元素示踪剂测量也将用于解决WAIS Divide的所有科学主题。该项目的广泛影响包括教育和推广活动，如向当地K-12学生进行大量演讲；学生和教师参与实验室工作的机会；在加州的圣安娜、康普顿和科斯塔梅萨等少数族裔学区开展地球科学教师培训项目；以及高中课程的发展。广泛的研究生和本科生参与也计划，将包括一名博士后助理，一名研究生，本科生每小时参与DRI；加州大学欧文分校（UCI）的研究生和本科生；也是密歇根州立大学的博士后研究员。学生招募将从长期参与的代表性不足的群体中进行，包括国家科学基金会资助的加州少数民族参与联盟（CAMP）和蒙大拿州美国印第安人研究机会（AIRO）。该奖项不包括在南极洲的实地工作。

McConnell/0839093 This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award supports a project to use the WAIS Divide deep core to investigate the Last Deglaciation at sub-annual resolution through an integrated set of chemical and biological analyses. The intellectual merit of the project is that these analyses, combined with others, will take advantage of the high snow accumulation WAIS Divide site yielding the highest time resolution glacio-biogeochemical and gas record of any deep Antarctic ice core. With other high resolution Greenland cores (GISP2 and GRIP) and lower resolution Antarctic cores, the combined record will yield new insights into worldwide climate dynamics and abrupt change. The proposed chemical, biological, and elemental tracer measurements will also be used to address all of the WAIS Divide science themes. The broader impacts of the project include education and outreach activities such as numerous presentations to local K-12 students; opportunities for student and teacher involvement in the laboratory work; a teacher training program in Earth sciences in the heavily minority Santa Ana, Compton, and Costa Mesa, California school districts; and development of high school curricula. Extensive graduate and undergraduate student involvement also is planned and will include one post doctoral associate, one graduate student, and undergraduate hourly involvement at DRI; a graduate student and undergraduates at University of California, Irvine (UCI); and a post doctoral fellow at MSU. Student recruitment will be made from underrepresented groups building on a long track record of involvement and will include the NSF funded California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) and the Montana American Indian Research Opportunities (AIRO).This award does not involve field work in Antarctica.