Support for the IGS/FRIS Symposium on Interactions of Ice Sheets and Glaciers with the Ocean

该奖项为将于2011年6月举行的“支持IGS/FRISP关于冰原和冰川与海洋相互作用的研讨会”提供部分支持。该研讨会将在斯克里普斯海洋学研究所举行，将汇集美国和国际研究人员，讨论为期一周的冰与海洋相互作用问题。促进这一主题的跨学科研究非常重要，因为目前冰盖的大部分质量损失发生在冰盖与海洋相互作用的地区。希望能把建模者、冰川学家、海洋学家、地质学家和外联专家聚集在一起。研讨会的两个主要目标是：1)评估冰-海相互作用的知识状况；2)讨论开发可靠的、定量的冰盖演化模型需要什么。知识价值：海洋对冰盖和潮汐冰川有着深远的影响，而且越来越清楚的是，要了解冰盖系统将如何演变，我们需要更好地了解冰-海洋相互作用的过程。通过在海洋学机构举办论坛，希望在海洋学和冰川学研究人员之间建立牢固的联系。更广泛的影响：由于陆地冰的损失和全球海平面上升之间的联系，这个话题具有广泛的社会意义。该奖项提供的资金将用于支持研究生、博士后学者和早期职业科学家。还将与加州当地学校开展外展活动，让K-12学生参与主题科学研究。了解冰与海洋的相互作用是能够预测未来气候变化情景的关键组成部分。美国国家科学基金会提供的资金将只用于支持美国科学家，具体重点是为早期职业科学家和外联专家提供部分支持。将早期职业科学家和学生纳入南极科学的一个必要的跨学科、综合和真正前沿领域的介绍和讨论中，对于培养下一代南极研究人员将是非常有价值的。会议的结果将包括一卷专题讨论会，这可能是对今后工作非常有价值的研究纲要。

This award provides partial support for "Support for the IGS/FRISP Symposium on Interactions of Ice Sheets and Glaciers with the Ocean" to be held in June 2011. The workshop will bring together U.S. and international researchers to discuss the topic of ice/ocean interactions for a one week period and will take place at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Promoting interdisciplinary research on this topic is important because most of the current mass loss from ice sheets is occurring in areas where the ice sheet interacts with the ocean. The hope is to bring together modelers, glaciologists, oceanographers, geologists, and outreach specialists. The two overarching goals of the workshop are to 1) assess the state of knowledge of ice-ocean interactions; and 2) to discuss what is needed for development of reliable, quantitative models of ice sheet evolution. Intellectual Merit: The ocean has a profound influence on the ice sheets and tidewater glaciers and it is becoming increasingly clear that to understand how the ice sheet system will evolve we need to better understand ice-ocean interaction processes. By hosting the forum at an oceanographic institution the hope is to foster strong links between the oceanographic and glaciological communities of researchers.Broader Impact: The topic has broad societal relevance because of the link between loss of land ice and global sea-level rise. Funds provided by this award will support graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and early career scientists. There will also be outreach activities with local California schools to engage the K-12 population in topical scientific research. Understanding ice-ocean interactions is a key component of being able to predict future climate change scenarios.Funds provided by the NSF will only be used to support US scientists, with the specific focus being to provide partial support for early career scientists and outreach specialists. Inclusion of early career scientists and students in the presentation and discussion of a necessarily interdisciplinary, integrated, and truly cutting edge area of Antarctic science will be extremely valuable in training the next generation of Antarctic researchers. Outcome from the meeting will include a symposium volume that is likely to be a very valuable research compendium for future work.