International Glaciological Society Symposium: Timescales and Processes of Glacier Dynamics, Buffalo, NY, June 3-8, 2018

该项目将支持美国科学家参加由国际冰川学会主办的国际科学会议，其中大多数科学家处于职业生涯的早期阶段。 会议的重点是了解影响冰川和冰盖动态的过程。 会议将汇集来自不同领域的科学家，就古气候记录、现代观测和计算机建模等问题进行跨学科讨论，共同目标是为了解冰盖和冰川的稳定性以及海平面上升的预测提供信息。会议有四个成果目标：（i）评估对冰川和冰盖过程的认识状况以及它们在观测中的表现形式，（ii）审查这些过程可能起作用和相互作用的时间尺度范围，（iii）确定解决这些过程所需的冰盖和地球系统模型的进展，以及（iv）确定更好地利用古气候观测记录的技术。 研讨会将汇集冰川学家，古气候学家，地貌学家和冰川地质学家，将古气候记录（100- 100，000年时间尺度）的研究与冰川和冰盖的现代观测和模型联系起来。 该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will support participation by US scientists, the majority of them in early career stages, at an international scientific meeting organized under the auspices of the International Glaciological Society. The meeting is focused on understanding processes influencing glacier and ice-sheet dynamics. It will bring together scientists from many different fields to hold interdisciplinary discussions about paleoclimate records, modern observations, and computer modeling, with the common goal of informing understanding of the stability of ice-sheets and glaciers, and predictions of sea-level rise.There are four outcome goals for the Symposium: (i) assess the state of knowledge of glacier and ice-sheet processes and how they manifest in observations, (ii) examine the range of timescales over which these processes may act and interact, (iii) identify advances in ice-sheet and earth-system models needed to resolve these processes, and (iv) identify techniques to better utilize the paleoclimate observational record toward i-iii. The symposium will bring together glaciologists, paleoclimatologists, geomorphologists, and glacial geologists to link research on paleoclimate records (100-100,000 year timescales) to modern observations of and models for glaciers and ice sheets. Papers from the symposium will be published in a special issue of Annals of Glaciology.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.