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Dear
Colleague Letter - Availability of Lake Vostok Ice Samples
(NSF 02-146)
Meeting report: Collaborative program
on Lake Vostok accretion ice samples
(Additional information about PDF files)
Links
to additional information
Co-Chairs
Julie Palais, Glaciology Program
Manager
Polly Penhale, Antarctic Biology & Medicine Program Manager
Committee Members
Scott Borg, Antarctic Geology & Geophysics Program Manager
Arthur Brown, Manager, Specialized Support
Joyce Jatko, Environmental Officer
Deneb Karentz, Antarctic Biology & Medicine Associate Program
Manager
Brian Stone, Research Support Manager
Junku Yuh, Program Manager, Office of International Science
and Engineering, Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences Directorate
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Charge:
Develop a plan to organize and hold a workshop or series
of workshops that will inform development of an implementation plan
for studying Antarctic sub-glacial lakes. Other organizations in NSF
are to be encouraged to participate at every opportunity — e.g.
funding, expertise, implementation, etc. The workshops should be structured
to bring out the likely interplay between science goals and technology
requirements: The goals should define the requirements but the state
of the technology may proscribe the goals. The workshops should include
appropriate international and interagency participation and should at
a minimum identify, discuss, and make recommendations concerning the
following topics:
- primary and secondary science goals
- associated instrumentation requirements
- level of biological isolation required for each approach
to meeting the various goals.
- technology R&D necessary
- sequence in which science goals should be attached
- logistics requirements
- site selection criteria, taking into consideration
- any other topics deemed significant by the committee
Your planning
activity should be timed to influence both longer-range plans and also
FY-02 activities, to the extent that is possible.
This is an exciting
opportunity and if we plan it well enough and early enough it has the
potential for excellent scientific pay off. I wish you every success
and look forward to periodic reports to Erick, Dennis and myself on
your progress so far.
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