An Industry/University Center for Cold Regions Science and Engineering

鉴于石油和其他自然资源对美国经济的重要性日益增加，这些资源可能来自北极冰层覆盖的水域，最近，工业界对在达特茅斯学院建立一个大学/工业合作中心进行冰研究产生了相当大的兴趣。之所以引起人们如此高度的兴趣，主要是因为石油及其副产品对我们的经济至关重要，而且大约60%的未发现的国内石油和约50%的未发现的天然气可能位于阿拉斯加海岸结冰的水域之下。随着北极工程开始在我们的经济发展中发挥越来越重要的作用，对冰的特性，特别是含盐冰的特性，以及训练有素的科学和工程人员提供此类信息的全面记录和理解的需求将会增加。因此，达特茅斯学院工业/大学寒冷地区科学与工程中心的运作阶段开始了。

In view of the increasing importance to the U.S. economy of petroleum and other natural resources that may originate beneath ice-infested waters in the Arctic, considerable industrial interest has been recently generated for establishing a University/Industry Cooperative Center for Ice Research to be located at Dartmouth College. This high degree of interest has been generated primarily because petroleum and its by-products are essential to our economy and because approximately 60 percent of the total undiscovered domestic oil and approximately 50 percent of the undiscovered gas may lie beneath ice-infested waters off the coast of Alaska. As Arctic engineering thus begins to play an increasingly important role in our economic development, the need for a thorough documentation and understanding of the properties of ice, particularly of saline ice, as well as trained scientific and engineering personnel to provide such information will increase. Thus, the operational phase of the Industry/University Center for Cold Regions Science and Engineering at Dartmouth College is initiated.