Support for a Workshop on Instrumentation for Polar Glaciology and Geophysics Research

支持极地冰川学和地球物理学研究仪器研讨会

• 批准号: 1446951
• 负责人: Kelly Brunt
• 金额: $ 3.38万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-15 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1446951&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Workshop; Instrumentation; Polar; Glaciology

This award provides partial support for a two-day workshop on Instrumentation for Polar Glaciology and Geophysics Research to be held in the greater Washington DC area, in October 2014. The funding will support participant travel, participant travel arrangement, venue, and publication costs. Additional funding from NASA will be provided to support personnel costs associated with the organizing committee. This workshop is designed to bring together the glaciology and geophysics communities to review ground-based, airborne, and spaceborne instrumentation (e.g., radar, lidar, seismics, GPS, etc.) that either exists or is in development and which is ideal for Arctic and Antarctic research. Due to the spatial scale and depth of Earth's polar ice sheets, many fundamental research topics, which are ultimately of global significance, require remote-sensing or ice-penetrating techniques and instrumentation. There are many scientists studying these ice sheets and their connections to other Earth systems, who often use a variety of these techniques and instrumentation. However, due to the nature of these techniques and instrumentation, which are often specialized or refined for polar applications, many scientists are unfamiliar with instrument capabilities that are complementary to their scientific goals. This workshop aims to bring together these interested parties to assess current polar instrumentation and identify a means of communicating the nature and value of this instrumentation to the broader community.The specific goals of this workshop are to: 1) assess the current state of both in-development and mature instrumentation; 2) identify limitations within existing instrumentation; 3) develop a means of communicating, and updating, the broader community (especially researchers that are new to polar science) of these technical capabilities; and 4) provide guidance to funding agencies (e.g., NSF and NASA) on how to continuously communicate the available instrumentation to the broader community. Notes from workshop discussions will form the basis of: 1) a report that summarizes the workshop and addresses the 4 goals; and 2) a publication of the highlights of the report in a journal such as EOS, to inform the broader community. The workshop seeks to involve as many early career researchers as possible by incorporating some of them into the Steering Committee and through funded invitations to attend or present. Further, the workshop will provide a means of informing the broader community of existing technologies that will assist current and new polar researchers with many aspects of their NSF-funded projects, including field-site selection and access to complementary instrumentation or existing datasets.

该奖项将为2014年10月在大华盛顿地区举行的为期两天的极地冰川学和地球物理研究仪器研讨会提供部分支持。这笔资金将用于资助参会者差旅、参会者差旅安排、场地和出版费用。来自NASA的额外资金将用于支持与组委会相关的人员费用。本次研讨会旨在将冰川学和地球物理学团体聚集在一起，回顾现有或正在开发的、适合北极和南极研究的地基、机载和星载仪器（如雷达、激光雷达、地震、GPS等）。由于地球极地冰盖的空间尺度和深度，许多最终具有全球意义的基础研究课题都需要遥感或破冰技术和仪器。有许多科学家研究这些冰盖及其与其他地球系统的联系，他们经常使用各种技术和仪器。然而，由于这些技术和仪器的性质，它们通常是专门为极地应用而改进的，许多科学家不熟悉与他们的科学目标相辅相成的仪器功能。本次研讨会旨在将这些感兴趣的各方聚集在一起，评估当前的极地仪器，并确定一种向更广泛的社区传播这种仪器的性质和价值的方法。本次研讨会的具体目标是：1)评估正在开发和成熟仪器的当前状态；2)识别现有仪器的局限性；3)开发一种交流和更新这些技术能力的手段，并使更广泛的社区（特别是对极地科学不熟悉的研究人员）了解这些技术能力；4)为资助机构（如NSF和NASA）提供指导，指导他们如何持续向更广泛的社区传播可用的仪器。研讨会讨论笔记将构成以下内容的基础：1)总结研讨会并阐述4个目标的报告；2)在诸如EOS之类的期刊上发布报告的重点内容，以告知更广泛的社区。该讲习班旨在通过将一些早期职业研究人员纳入指导委员会和通过资助邀请他们出席或出席，使尽可能多的早期职业研究人员参与其中。此外，研讨会将提供一种手段，向更广泛的社区通报现有技术，这些技术将帮助当前和新的极地研究人员在其nsf资助项目的许多方面，包括实地选址和获取补充仪器或现有数据集。