Group travel to the Past Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics (PAIS) 2017 Conference, Trieste, Italy

首届国际过去南极冰盖动力学（PAIS）会议将于2017年9月10日至15日在意大利的里雅斯特举行。PAIS研究项目是由南极研究科学委员会（SCAR）最近成立的，起源于2009年南极气候演变研讨会。研讨会的目标是解决有关南极冰盖对气候变化的敏感性及其对过去和未来海平面变化的贡献的关键问题。这笔资金将用于支持大约7-10名美国科学家的旅行费用，包括早期职业研究人员和研究生，使他们能够展示他们的科学发现并从学术思想交流中受益。差旅支助请求将由一个由PAIS常设咨询委员会成员组成的特设审查委员会进行审查。该委员会成员包括国际和美国科学家。评审委员会将在评审过程中遵循NSF关于利益冲突的指导方针。南极冰盖对大气和海洋变暖的未来反应将对全球和当地海平面上升、沿海城市、社区和战略基础设施产生根本性影响。PAIS会议将促进将气候-海洋-冰-地球数值模拟的最新发展与最近和过去冰盖变化的最新信息相结合，以便更好地预测该地区的自然和生态未来。这项资助将允许美国研究人员、早期职业科学家和研究生参加2017年PAIS会议和相关研讨会。专题讨论会的报告和出版物将提供南极地球科学和冰川学研究活动的重要记录。会议和附属讲习班的主要成果将为未来的国际和跨学科合作和研究建议——特别是那些将观测和数值模拟联系起来的合作和研究建议——奠定基础。

The first international Past Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics (PAIS) conference will be held September 10-15, 2017 in Trieste, Italy. The PAIS research program was recently formed by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), and grew out of the 2009 Antarctic Climate Evolution symposium. The goal of the workshop is to address key questions about the sensitivity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to climate change and its contribution to past and future sea level change. The funds will be used to support travel costs for approximately 7-10 U.S. scientists, including early career researchers and graduate students, enabling them to present their scientific findings and benefit from the scholarly exchange of ideas. Travel support requests will be reviewed by an ad hoc review committee made up of standing PAIS advisory committee members. The committee members include both international and U.S. scientists. The review committee will follow NSF guidelines on conflicts of interest in their review process.The future response of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to a warming atmosphere and ocean will have a fundamental impact on global and local sea level rise, coastal cities, communities, and strategic infrastructure. The PAIS conference will facilitate the integration of the latest developments in numerical climate-ocean-ice-Earth modeling with the latest information on recent and past changes in the ice sheet, to better inform projections of the region's physical and ecological future. This grant will allow US researchers, early career scientists, and graduate students to attend the 2017 PAIS Conference and associated workshops. Symposium presentations and publications will provide an important record of research activities in Antarctic Earth Sciences and Glaciology. The key outcomes of the conference and ancillary workshops will set the stage for future international and interdisciplinary collaborations and research proposals- particularly those linking observations and numerical modeling.