Workshop Support for West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Research

该奖项支持每年一度的南极西部冰盖（WAIS）项目研讨会的继续。WAIS项目成功地使南极研究界广泛关注两个紧迫的全球问题：未来海平面和快速气候变化。WAIS是多学科的，支持将有助于促进持续的跨学科互动。WAIS讲习班于1990年开始；首先制定《世界科学信息系统》的目标，并从1992年开始在一个论坛上交流和介绍科学发现，在这个论坛上促进跨学科的科学讨论，并每年评估《世界科学信息系统》目标的进展情况。这些讲习班一直是这一合作科学努力的支柱。WAIS社区已经表示支持每年继续举办这些研讨会。提供资金以三种方式支助今后的西非环境信息系统讲习班：第一，协助通知、组织和执行今后三年的年度讲习班；第二，通过提供旅行津贴来进一步加强这些研讨会，以吸引被WAIS工作组认为是进一步加强WAIS计划的关键人物的新参与者；第三，为讲习班组织维持一个网站，并作为与WAIS研究界有关的信息交流中心。

This award supports the continuation of the annual West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) project workshops. The WAIS project has successfully focused a broad cross-section of the Antarctic research community on two urgent global issues: future sea level and rapid climate change. WAIS is multidisciplinary and the support will help to foster continued cross-disciplinary interaction. WAIS workshops began in 1990; first to formulate the objectives of WAIS and, beginning in 1992, to exchange and present scientific findings in a forum where cross-disciplinary scientific discourse was promoted and progress toward WAIS goals could be annually assessed. These workshops have been the backbone of this cooperative scientific effort. The WAIS community has voiced its support for continuing these workshops on an annual basis. Funds are provided to support future WAIS workshops in three ways: first, to assist in the notification, organization and execution of annual workshops for the next three years; second, to further enhance these workshops by offering travel stipends to attract new participants deemed by the WAIS Working Group to be key persons in further enhancing the WAIS program; and third, to maintain a web site for workshop organization and to serve as a clearinghouse for information relevant to the WAIS research community.