West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Workshops 2017-2018 - A Forum for WAIS Research and the Thwaites Program

西南极冰盖(WAIS)会议为科学家提供了一个年度论坛，试图了解过去和现在的冰盖行为。会议的重点是南极洲西部，这一地区对于了解地球冰盖如何演变以及过去、现在和未来的海平面至关重要。该奖项为WAIS 2017年和2018年的会议提供部分支持。第24届和第25届WAIS会议的目标是：(1)让学生和职业早期科学家参与，并促进代表不足的群体或具有相关但代表不足的科学背景的科学家的投入；(2)考虑地球物理测量和过程观测的新技术、新的建模方法和协调研究的新地点；(3)鼓励为实地获得的数据提交数据和良好的元数据做法，以及(4)讨论Thwaites计划的科学目标和研究计划，Thwaites计划是一项将由国家科学基金会和英国自然环境研究理事会资助的对西南极Thwaites-Amundsen地区的多学科研究。除讨论南极洲西部正在进行的演变外，与会者还将讨论诸如WAIS古气候、描述冰盖的地球物理边界条件、支配冰盖物质平衡的气候-冰-海洋过程以及区域气候和耦合系统模型等主题。

West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) meetings provide an annual forum for scientists seeking to understand past and present ice-sheet behavior. The meetings are focused on West Antarctica, an area of critical importance to understanding how Earth's ice sheets evolve, and to past, present, and future sea level. This award provides partial support for the WAIS meetings in 2017 and 2018. Goals for the 24th and 25th WAIS meetings are to: (1) engage students and early-career scientists, and promote input from under-represented groups or scientists with related but under-represented scientific backgrounds; (2) consider new technologies for geophysical measurements and process observations, new modeling approaches, and new sites for coordinated study; (3) encourage data submission and good metadata practices for field-acquired data, and (4) discuss science objectives and research plans for the Thwaites Program, a multidisciplinary study of the Thwaites-Amundsen region of West Antarctica that will be supported by the National Science Foundation and the UK Natural Environment Research Council. In addition to discussing the ongoing evolution of West Antarctica, participants will engage in themes such as WAIS paleoclimate, geophysical boundary conditions that describe the ice sheet, climate-ice-ocean processes that govern ice-sheet mass balance, and regional climate and coupled-system models.