Support for a Workshop on Instrumentation for Polar Glaciology and Geophysics Research

该奖项为将于2014年10月在大华盛顿特区举办的为期两天的极地冰川学和地球物理研究仪器研讨会提供部分支持。这笔资金将用于支付与会者的旅费、与会者的差旅安排、场地和出版物费用。美国国家航空航天局将提供额外资金，以支持与组委会有关的人员费用。该研讨会旨在汇聚冰川学和地球物理学界，审查地面、机载和星载仪器(例如雷达、激光雷达、地震、全球定位系统等)。它要么已经存在，要么正在开发中，是北极和南极研究的理想之选。由于地球极地冰盖的空间规模和深度，许多最终具有全球意义的基础性研究课题需要遥感或穿透冰的技术和仪器。有许多科学家研究这些冰盖及其与其他地球系统的联系，他们经常使用各种这些技术和仪器。然而，由于这些技术和仪器的性质，往往是针对极地应用而专门或改进的，许多科学家不熟悉与他们的科学目标相辅相成的仪器能力。该讲习班的具体目标是：1)评估正在开发和成熟的仪器的现状；2)查明现有仪器的局限性；3)制定一种手段，与广大社区(特别是刚接触极地科学的研究人员)交流和更新这些技术能力；4)向资助机构(如国家科学基金会和美国航天局)提供指导，指导如何持续地向更广泛的社区宣传现有仪器。研讨会讨论笔记将构成以下内容的基础：1)一份总结研讨会并阐述4个目标的报告；2)在《自然资源》等期刊上发表报告的要点，以向更广泛的社区提供信息。讲习班力求让尽可能多的早期职业研究人员参加指导委员会，并通过出资邀请他们出席或介绍。此外，讲习班将提供一种手段，向更广泛的社区通报现有技术，这些技术将协助现有和新的极地研究人员在其国家科学基金资助的项目的许多方面开展工作，包括实地选址和获取补充仪器或现有数据集。

This award provides partial support for a two-day workshop on Instrumentation for Polar Glaciology and Geophysics Research to be held in the greater Washington DC area, in October 2014. The funding will support participant travel, participant travel arrangement, venue, and publication costs. Additional funding from NASA will be provided to support personnel costs associated with the organizing committee. This workshop is designed to bring together the glaciology and geophysics communities to review ground-based, airborne, and spaceborne instrumentation (e.g., radar, lidar, seismics, GPS, etc.) that either exists or is in development and which is ideal for Arctic and Antarctic research. Due to the spatial scale and depth of Earth's polar ice sheets, many fundamental research topics, which are ultimately of global significance, require remote-sensing or ice-penetrating techniques and instrumentation. There are many scientists studying these ice sheets and their connections to other Earth systems, who often use a variety of these techniques and instrumentation. However, due to the nature of these techniques and instrumentation, which are often specialized or refined for polar applications, many scientists are unfamiliar with instrument capabilities that are complementary to their scientific goals. This workshop aims to bring together these interested parties to assess current polar instrumentation and identify a means of communicating the nature and value of this instrumentation to the broader community.The specific goals of this workshop are to: 1) assess the current state of both in-development and mature instrumentation; 2) identify limitations within existing instrumentation; 3) develop a means of communicating, and updating, the broader community (especially researchers that are new to polar science) of these technical capabilities; and 4) provide guidance to funding agencies (e.g., NSF and NASA) on how to continuously communicate the available instrumentation to the broader community. Notes from workshop discussions will form the basis of: 1) a report that summarizes the workshop and addresses the 4 goals; and 2) a publication of the highlights of the report in a journal such as EOS, to inform the broader community. The workshop seeks to involve as many early career researchers as possible by incorporating some of them into the Steering Committee and through funded invitations to attend or present. Further, the workshop will provide a means of informing the broader community of existing technologies that will assist current and new polar researchers with many aspects of their NSF-funded projects, including field-site selection and access to complementary instrumentation or existing datasets.