Collaborative Research: Science coordination office for Summit Station/ISI Observatory and the Greenland Traverse

二十多年来，极地项目部一直在资助格陵兰岛峰会站（北纬 72°，西经 38°，海拔 3250 米）的大量科学活动。峰会站设有格陵兰环境观测站 (GEOSummit)，该观测站是美国国家科学基金会 (NSF) 与国家海洋和大气管理局之间的合作项目，经丹麦格陵兰科学研究委员会许可，可提供长期环境测量。峰会是北极唯一一个全年有人值守的高海拔、自由对流层内陆环境观测站。因此，Summit 在国际科学界的全球测量能力中占据了一个独特的位置。峰会站和格陵兰冰盖科学协调办公室 (SCO) 为 NSF 北极研究支持和后勤计划提供咨询服务。 SCO 的主要作用是在涉及 NSF、其主要后勤支持承包商和其他利益相关者的讨论和决策过程中提出格陵兰冰盖科学界的需求和愿望。 上合组织还与美国国家科学基金会、美国国家科学基金会的承包商和科学团队合作，制定公平有效的资源利用方案，并努力确保广泛的科学和支持活动尽可能不影响峰会的原始特征。 上合组织赞同重新开发峰会基础设施的长期目标，以降低长期运营和维护成本，并减少空间站设施以及访问的飞机和交通车辆的污染物排放。 上合组织还帮助协调从高中到研究生的各级教育团体对峰会的访问。 SCO 将与 NSF 和所有相关利益相关者密切合作，设计一个复兴的峰会站，减少运营和维护工作（和成本），通过减少排放来保护未来科学的站点。其他科学界，包括天文学和天体物理学界，最近表示有兴趣使用峰会站作为北极新观测基地。 上合组织将积极参与与所有相关方的讨论，制定场地规划，以容纳大量额外的研究活动，同时保持长期关注需要清洁空气和雪条件的气候相关研究。 SCO 的网站是科学界交流的基石，在过去几年中增加了一些新功能，包括：基于 Google Earth 的 GIS 记录过去 9 年该地区的活动、使用街景图像的虚拟游览、针对新调查人员的新 Summit 工作部分、Summit 附近已发表作品的综合参考书目以及季刊通讯）。 SCO将对网站进行全面检修以改进导航，并将继续添加新功能。

The Division of Polar Programs has been funding substantial scientific activities at Summit Station, Greenland (72°N 38°W, 3250 meters above sea level), for over twenty years. Summit Station hosts the Greenland Environmental Observatory (GEOSummit), a cooperation between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration with permission from the Danish Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland to provide long-term environmental measurements. Summit is the only high-elevation, free-tropospheric, inland environmental observatory in the Arctic which is manned throughout the year. Summit therefore fills a unique niche in the international scientific community?s global measurement capability. The Science Coordination Office (SCO) for Summit Station and the Greenland Ice Sheet serves in an advisory capacity to NSF?s Arctic Research Support and Logistics Program. SCO?s primary role is to present the needs and desires of the science community working on the Greenland Ice Sheet in discussions and decision making processes involving NSF, its primary logistics support contractor, and other stakeholders. The SCO also works with NSF, NSF?s contractor, and science teams to work out equitable and efficient use of resources, and strives to ensure that the wide range of science and support activities impact the pristine character of Summit as lightly as possible. SCO shares in the long-range goal of redeveloping Summit infrastructure in ways that will reduce long-term operation and maintenance costs, and reduce the emissions of pollutants by facilities on the station and the aircraft and traverse vehicles that visit. The SCO also helps coordinate visits to Summit for educational groups at all levels, from high school to post-graduate. The SCO will work closely with NSF and all relevant stakeholders in the design of a revitalized Summit Station where reducing operational and maintenance effort (and costs) will preserve the site for future science by reducing emissions. Additional scientific communities, including astronomy and astrophysics, have recently expressed interest in using Summit Station as an Arctic base for new observations. SCO will actively participate in discussions with all interested parties to develop a site plan to accommodate an influx of additional research activities while maintaining long-standing focus on climate-relevant research which requires clean air and snow conditions. SCO?s website is a keystone of communication to the science community, with several new features added over the past few years, including; a Google Earth based GIS recording activity in the region over the past 9 years, a virtual tour using Streetview images, a new Working at Summit section that targets new investigators, a comprehensive bibliography of published work near Summit, and a quarterly Newsletter). SCO will conduct a comprehensive overhaul of the web site to improve navigation, and will continue to add new features.