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

2017-2018 年西南极冰盖 (WAIS) 研讨会 - WAIS 研究和思韦茨计划论坛

基本信息

批准号：
1744540
负责人：
Ted Scambos
金额：
$ 5.11万
依托单位：
University of Colorado at Boulder
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-09-01 至 2020-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1744540&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
West Antarctic Ice Sheet WAIS

项目摘要

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.

西南极冰盖（WAIS）会议为寻求了解过去和现在的冰盖行为的科学家提供了一个年度论坛。会议集中在南极西部，这是了解地球的冰盖如何发展，过去，现在和未来的海平面的重要性。该奖项为2017年和2018年的WAIS会议提供了部分支持。第24和25届WAIS会议的目标是：（1）与学生和早期职业学家互动，并促进代表性不足的团体或具有相关但代表性不足的科学背景的科学家的意见；（2）考虑用于地球物理测量和过程观察，新建模方法以及用于协调研究的新站点的新技术；（3）鼓励数据提交和良好的元数据实践对现场获得的数据进行，（4）讨论THWAITES计划的科学目标和研究计划，THWAITES计划是西南极地区的Thwaites-Amundsen地区的多学科研究，该研究将得到国家科学基金会和英国自然环境研究委员会的支持。除了讨论南极西部的持续进化外，参与者还将参与主题，例如描述冰原的Wais古气候，地球物理边界条件，这些主题，冰原，气候 - 冰山的过程，这些过程控制冰川质量平衡以及区域气候和耦合系统模型。