Collaborative Research: Greenland Dry-snow Ice-sheet Science Coordination Office

20多年来，格陵兰岛的顶峰站一直是美国国家科学基金会极地计划办公室（NSF-OPP）活动的研究地点。该设施的价值是基于它的位置，远高于北极圈，海拔足够高，处于自由对流层，不受人类住区或海洋缓和作用的影响，以及格陵兰冰盖项目2 （GISP2）深冰芯的位置。峰顶站（72oN, 38oW, 3250 m.a.s.l.）设有格陵兰环境观测站（GEOSummit），这是唯一一个获得格陵兰政府和丹麦格陵兰科学研究委员会许可提供长期环境测量的NSF站点。顶峰站全年配备人员，在国际科学界的全球测量能力中占有重要地位。峰顶站的科学协调办公室（SCO）代表利用峰顶站的研究利益，定期向北极研究支持和后勤计划（RSL）的管理者提供反馈，并向研究界传达有关国家科学基金对峰顶站计划的信息。上海合作组织在格陵兰内陆冰盖上的科学研究机构与其主要后勤支持承包商之间的讨论和决策过程中提出了他们的需求和愿望。NSF已经宣布了在未来8年内对顶峰站的基础设施进行资本重组的计划，SCO将确保在整个规划和设计过程中与研究界进行沟通。上海合作组织赞同国家科学基金会的目标，即在飘雪之上建立一个安全和可持续的高峰站，并保持清洁的空气和清洁的雪研究区域。GEOSummit网站为新的首席研究员、学生和教育工作者提供了资源。几十年来，格陵兰岛的顶峰站通过深冰芯对过去的气候进行了研究，并研究了大气化学、降雪过程，最近还研究了来自宇宙起源的高能中微子。通过这一努力，本组织将确保首脑站基础设施的运营计划和未来几年的资本重组计划符合科研界的利益。上海合作组织每周在峰会站与北极后勤承包商科学支持、后勤和行动部门举行会议，了解计划情况，交流研究兴趣。邀请上合组织审议有关文件，并就峰会站的规划提供意见。格陵兰射电中微子天文台（RNO-G）项目已经在计划的30个节点网络中安装了6个探测器节点。上海合作组织将继续倡导首脑站的场地规划，以适应天体物理研究的涌入，同时保持长期关注需要清洁空气和雪条件的气候相关研究。该计划还将欢迎和支持来自一系列其他学科的研究人员，并将包括教育学生和新研究人员的机会，但必须防止每个人无意中相互干扰。上海合作组织网站是与科学界交流的基石，在过去几年中增加了一些功能，如谷歌地球地理信息系统——记录过去12年该地区的活动——使用街景图像的虚拟之旅，针对新调查人员的“在峰会上工作”部分，峰会附近已发表作品的综合参考书目，以及季度通讯。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

Summit Station in Greenland has been the research location for many National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs (NSF-OPP) activities for over twenty years. The value of the facility is based on its location, well above the Arctic circle, high enough in elevation to be in the free troposphere, not influenced by human settlements or the moderating effects of the ocean, and the site of the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) deep ice core. Summit Station (72oN, 38oW, 3250 m.a.s.l.) hosts the Greenland Environmental Observatory (GEOSummit), the only NSF site with permission from the Government of Greenland and the Danish Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland to provide long-term environmental measurements. Summit Station is staffed year-round and fills an important niche in the international scientific community’s global measurement capability. The Science Coordination Office (SCO) for Summit Station represents research interests that utilize the station, providing regular feedback to the managers of the Arctic Research Support and Logistics Program (RSL) and conveying information back to the research community about NSFs plans for the station. The SCO presents the needs and desires of the science community working on the ice sheet in interior Greenland in discussions and decision making process between RSL and their primary logistics support contractor. NSF has stated plans to recapitalize the infrastructure at Summit Station over the next 8 years and the SCO will ensure there is communication with the research community throughout the planning and design process. The SCO concurs with NSF’s goals to make a safe and sustainable Summit Station elevated above the drifting snow and preserving the clean air and clean snow research areas. The GEOSummit website has resources for new Principal Investigators, students and educators. Summit Station, Greeland is the site of decades of study of the past climate through deep ice cores, and studies of atmospheric chemistry, snow processes and, more recently, the study of high-energy neutrinos from the origins of the universe. Through this effort, the SCO will ensure that plans to operate and in coming years to recapitalize the infrastructure at Summit Station will be done with the interests of the research community. The SCO meets weekly with the arctic logistics contractor science support, logistics and operations at Summit Station to remain informed about plans and communicate research interests. The SCO is invited to review documents and provide input on plans for Summit Station. The Radio Neutrino Observatory for Greenland (RNO-G) project has installed 6 detector nodes of a planned 30-node network. SCO will continue to advocate for Summit Station site plans that accommodate an influx of astrophysical research while maintaining long standing focus on climate relevant research which needs clean air and snow conditions. This plan will also welcome and support researchers from a range of other disciplines, and will include opportunities to educate students and new researchers, but must keep everyone from inadvertently interfering with each other. The SCO website is a keystone of communication to the science community, with several features added over the past few years such as the Google Earth based GIS -- recording activity in the region over the past 12 years -- a virtual tour using Streetview images, a new Working at Summit section targeting new investigators, a comprehensive bibliography of published work near Summit, and a quarterly Newsletter.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.