Ice Drilling Program Office

冰钻计划组织(IDPO)该奖项为冰钻计划组织(IDPO)提供支持，以提供社区领导，并运营和维护设施，以支持冰钻工程、现场支持以及教育和外展。该项目的智力价值体现在该项目的四个密切相关的领导目标中，其中包括：1)与美国和国际冰芯钻探研究团体合作，制定和维护长期和短期的综合科学和钻探技术计划；2)提供现场支持，提供钻探设备和专业知识，以支持NSF资助的科学；3)确定新的技术需求并为技术开发和获取寻求资金；4)加强美国和国际冰科学界与冰芯钻探科学和技术相关的沟通和信息交流。这些目标涉及从极地冰盖到冰芯和钻孔到冰川下水环境或基岩的证据的重要性，这导致了许多重大发现，使气候科学发生了革命性的变化。这些发现也对政策产生了重要影响，因此也具有社会意义。美国在这一领域的持续科学领导地位不仅取决于从事这项研究的科学家的支持，还取决于提供现场钻探支持和完成工程和技术开发活动的专用设施的持续支持。该计划及其教育和公共推广活动将培养不同年龄、种族和性别的学生，将有助于推动研究生进入有前途的职业生涯，由此产生的科学发现将使所有公民受益。实现该项目的目标将使美国冰科学研究界能够实现其国家和国际协调科学目标的实施，在冰科学发现方面处于世界领先地位，培养下一代科学家和工程师的教育和发展，并有助于向所有人传达发现的重要性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Ice Drilling Program Organization (IDPO)This award provides support to the Ice Drilling Program Organization (IDPO) to provide community leadership and to operate and maintain a facility to support ice drilling engineering, field support, and education and outreach. The intellectual merit of this project is embodied in the four closely linked leadership goals of this project which include: 1) producing and maintaining long-term and short-term integrated science and drilling technology plans in collaboration with the U.S. and international ice coring and drilling research communities, 2) providing field support with drilling equipment and expertise to support NSF-funded science, 3) identifying new technology needs and seeking funding for technology development and acquisition, and 4) enhancing communication and information exchange related to ice coring and drilling science and technology within the US and international ice science community. These goals relate to the importance of evidence from the polar ice sheets from ice cores into, and boreholes to the subglacial aqueous environment or bedrock, which has led to many important discoveries that have revolutionized climate science. These discoveries have also had important impacts on policy and thus also have societal relevance. Continued U.S. scientific leadership in this area depends critically not only on the support of scientists doing this research but also on the continued support of a dedicated facility to provide the field drilling support and accomplish engineering and technology development activities. This program and its education and public outreach activities will nurture the inclusion of students of many ages, races, and genders, will help to launch graduate students into promising careers, and the resulting scientific discoveries will benefit all citizens. Achieving the goals of this project will enable the U.S. ice science research community to realize implementation of their national and internationally-coordinated scientific goals, lead the world in ice science discoveries, nurture the education and development of the next generation of scientists and engineers, and help to communicate the importance of the discoveries to all.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.