Collaborative Research: Greenland Dry-snow Ice-sheet Science Coordination Office

二十多年来，格陵兰岛的顶峰站一直是许多国家科学基金会极地计划办公室(NSF-OPP)活动的研究地点。该设施的价值取决于它的位置，远远高于北极圈，海拔足够高，足以处于自由对流层，不受人类住区或海洋缓和效应的影响，以及格陵兰冰盖项目2(GISP2)深冰芯的位置。顶峰站(北纬72度，西经38度，海拔3250英里)拥有格陵兰环境观测站(GEOSummit)，这是唯一获得格陵兰政府和丹麦格陵兰科学研究委员会许可的NSF站点，提供长期环境测量。顶峰空间站常年配备工作人员，填补了国际科学界全球测量能力的一个重要利基。顶峰空间站的科学协调办公室(SCO)代表利用该空间站的研究兴趣，定期向北极研究支持和后勤计划(RSL)的管理人员提供反馈，并向研究界传达关于NSFS空间站计划的信息。在RSL与其主要后勤支持承包商之间的讨论和决策过程中，上海合作组织展示了在格陵兰内陆冰盖工作的科学界的需求和愿望。NSF已宣布计划在未来8年内对Summit Station的基础设施进行资本重组，上海合作组织将确保在整个规划和设计过程中与研究界进行沟通。上合组织赞同国家科学基金会的目标，即建立一个安全、可持续的峰会站，高高耸立在飘雪之上，保护干净的空气和干净的雪研究区。GEOSummit网站为新的首席研究人员、学生和教育工作者提供了资源。格里兰的顶峰站是数十年来通过深冰芯研究过去气候的地点，也是对大气化学、降雪过程以及最近从宇宙起源开始的高能中微子研究的地点。通过这一努力，上海合作组织将确保峰会站基础设施的运营计划和未来几年的资本重组计划符合研究界的利益。上海合作组织每周在峰会站与北极物流承包商科学支持、物流和运营部门举行会议，以随时了解计划并交流研究兴趣。上合组织受邀审查文件，并就峰会站计划提供意见。格陵兰岛射电中微子观测站(RNO-G)项目已经安装了计划中的30节点网络中的6个探测器节点。上海合作组织将继续倡导峰会站场址计划，以适应天体物理研究的涌入，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。该计划还将欢迎和支持来自其他一系列学科的研究人员，并将包括教育学生和新研究人员的机会，但必须防止每个人无意中相互干扰。上海合作组织网站是科学界交流的重点，在过去几年中增加了几个功能，例如基于谷歌地球的地理信息系统-记录该地区过去12年的活动-使用街景图像的虚拟参观，针对新调查人员的新的峰会工作部分，峰会附近出版的工作的综合书目，以及季度通讯。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。

Summit Station in Greenland has been the research location for many National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs (NSF-OPP) activities for over twenty years. The value of the facility is based on its location, well above the Arctic circle, high enough in elevation to be in the free troposphere, not influenced by human settlements or the moderating effects of the ocean, and the site of the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) deep ice core. Summit Station (72oN, 38oW, 3250 m.a.s.l.) hosts the Greenland Environmental Observatory (GEOSummit), the only NSF site with permission from the Government of Greenland and the Danish Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland to provide long-term environmental measurements. Summit Station is staffed year-round and fills an important niche in the international scientific community’s global measurement capability. The Science Coordination Office (SCO) for Summit Station represents research interests that utilize the station, providing regular feedback to the managers of the Arctic Research Support and Logistics Program (RSL) and conveying information back to the research community about NSFs plans for the station. The SCO presents the needs and desires of the science community working on the ice sheet in interior Greenland in discussions and decision making process between RSL and their primary logistics support contractor. NSF has stated plans to recapitalize the infrastructure at Summit Station over the next 8 years and the SCO will ensure there is communication with the research community throughout the planning and design process. The SCO concurs with NSF’s goals to make a safe and sustainable Summit Station elevated above the drifting snow and preserving the clean air and clean snow research areas. The GEOSummit website has resources for new Principal Investigators, students and educators. Summit Station, Greeland is the site of decades of study of the past climate through deep ice cores, and studies of atmospheric chemistry, snow processes and, more recently, the study of high-energy neutrinos from the origins of the universe. Through this effort, the SCO will ensure that plans to operate and in coming years to recapitalize the infrastructure at Summit Station will be done with the interests of the research community. The SCO meets weekly with the arctic logistics contractor science support, logistics and operations at Summit Station to remain informed about plans and communicate research interests. The SCO is invited to review documents and provide input on plans for Summit Station. The Radio Neutrino Observatory for Greenland (RNO-G) project has installed 6 detector nodes of a planned 30-node network. SCO will continue to advocate for Summit Station site plans that accommodate an influx of astrophysical research while maintaining long standing focus on climate relevant research which needs clean air and snow conditions. This plan will also welcome and support researchers from a range of other disciplines, and will include opportunities to educate students and new researchers, but must keep everyone from inadvertently interfering with each other. The SCO website is a keystone of communication to the science community, with several features added over the past few years such as the Google Earth based GIS -- recording activity in the region over the past 12 years -- a virtual tour using Streetview images, a new Working at Summit section targeting new investigators, a comprehensive bibliography of published work near Summit, and a quarterly Newsletter.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.