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

支持极地冰川学和地球物理学研究仪器研讨会

• 批准号: 1446951
• 负责人: Kelly Brunt
• 金额: $ 3.38万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-15 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1446951&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Workshop; Instrumentation; Polar; Glaciology

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.

该奖项为 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学研究仪器研讨会提供部分支持。该资金将用于支持参与者旅行、参与者旅行安排、场地和出版费用。美国宇航局将提供额外资金来支持与组委会相关的人员费用。本次研讨会旨在将冰川学和地球物理学界聚集在一起，审查现有或正在开发的适合北极的地基、机载和星载仪器（例如雷达、激光雷达、地震、GPS 等）和南极研究。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研究课题需要遥感或透冰技术和仪器。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通常是针对极地应用专门或改进的，许多科学家不熟悉与其科学目标相辅相成的仪器功能。本次研讨会旨在将这些感兴趣的各方聚集在一起，评估当前的极地仪器，并确定一种向更广泛的社区传达该仪器的性质和价值的方法。本次研讨会的具体目标是：1）评估两者的当前状态-开发和成熟的仪器仪表； 2）确定现有仪器的局限性； 3) 开发一种交流和更新这些技术能力的方法，让更广泛的群体（特别是刚接触极地科学的研究人员）了解这些技术能力； 4) 向资助机构（例如 NSF 和 NASA）提供有关如何不断向更广泛的社区传达可用仪器的指导。研讨会讨论的笔记将构成以下内容的基础： 1) 总结研讨会并讨论 4 个目标的报告； 2) 在 EOS 等期刊上发布报告要点，以向更广泛的社区通报情况。该研讨会旨在通过将其中一些研究人员纳入指导委员会并通过资助邀请参加或出席来吸引尽可能多的早期职业研究人员参与。此外，研讨会还将提供一种向更广泛的社区通报现有技术的方法，这些技术将在 NSF 资助项目的许多方面为当前和新的极地研究人员提供帮助，包括现场选择和获取补充仪器或现有数据集。