WAIS Workshops 2019-2021: An Annual Transdisciplinary Forum for Studies of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet by the next Generation of Polar Scientists

在过去的四分之一世纪世纪里，每年都举行西南极冰盖讲习班。它提供了一个跨学科的科学交流的状态和行为的WAIS，影响其不断变化的行为过程，并预测其未来的质量平衡和海平面的贡献的关键场所。以社区为基础的研讨会结构汇集了学生，早期的职业生涯，和高级科学家谁是调查WAIS使用各种各样的工具。研究人员介绍了从地基和船载方法，航空地球物理学，卫星遥感和数值模拟获得的结果。小组互动促进合作，并帮助研究人员回答困难，但基本的，关于WAIS的命运问题。该奖项为未来三年的WAIS研讨会提供部分支持，研讨会将在加州朱利安（2019年）、弗吉尼亚州斯特林（2020年）和科罗拉多州丹佛（2021年）举行。这三个研讨会将（1）通过专门的公开讨论期促进WAIS创新科学的传播，（2）欢迎来自过去研讨会中代表性不足的学科的新科学思想，（3）制定新的举措，以发展一个更具包容性的社区和与社区大学教育工作者联系的无障碍会议，以及（4）为研究生、博士后和其他早期职业研究人员实施正式的指导计划。这些努力将最大限度地提高WAIS研讨会作为一个论坛的效率，推动对WAIS的科学理解的界限。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Workshop has been held annually for the past quarter century. It offers a key venue for transdisciplinary scientific exchange on the state and behavior of WAIS, processes that influence its changing behavior, and projections of its future mass balance and sea-level contribution. The community-based structure of the workshops brings together students, early-career, and senior scientists who are investigating WAIS using a wide variety of tools. Researchers present on finding obtained from ground-based and shipborne methods, airborne geophysics, satellite remote-sensing, and numerical modeling. Group interactions facilitate collaborations and help researchers answer difficult, but essential, questions regarding the fate of WAIS. This award provides partial support for the next three years of WAIS Workshops, to be held in Julian, California (2019), Sterling, Virginia (2020), and the Denver, Colorado region (2021).This set of three workshops will (1) promote the dissemination of innovative WAIS science with dedicated open discussion periods, (2) welcome new scientific ideas from disciplines that were underrepresented in past workshops, (3) establish new initiatives to grow a more inclusive community and accessible meeting that connects with community college educators, and (4) implement a formal mentoring plan for graduate students, post-doctoral, and other early-career researchers. These efforts will maximize the efficacy of the WAIS Workshop as a forum that pushes the boundaries of scientific understanding of WAIS. They will also ensure that the research community is positioned to engage and support the next generation of polar scientists.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.