Antarctic airborne radio echo sounding, 1977–78

Polar Record ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 19 (120) ◽  
pp. 267-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Drewry ◽  
D. T. Meldrum
Keyword(s):  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Austral Summer ◽  
Applied Physics ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Science ◽  
Radio Echo Sounding ◽  
Polar Research Institute ◽  
Echo Sounding

During the austral summer 1977–78 the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) conducted a fifth season of airborne radio echo sounding in Antarctica as part of a joint project with the US National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs (NSF-DPP) and the Technical University of Denmark (TUD). In addition, trials were undertaken of a magnetometer installation, developed and operated, under NSF contract, by the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) of the Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Radio echo and magnetic sounding of the Antarctic ice sheet, 1978–79

Polar Record ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 20 (124) ◽  
pp. 43-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Drewry ◽  
D. T. Meldrum ◽  
E. Jankowski
Keyword(s):  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Ice Sheet ◽  
Geophysical Investigation ◽  
Antarctic Ice Sheet ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Science ◽  
Radio Echo Sounding ◽  
Polar Research Institute ◽  
The Antarctic

During December 1978 the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) undertook its sixth and final season of long-range airborne radio echo sounding (RES) and magnetometry in Antarctica in cooperation with the US National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programmes (NSF-DPP) and the Electromagnetics Institute of the Technical University of Denmark (TUD). The 1978–79 season (DF–79) was part of a long-term programme of glaciological and geophysical investigation of the Antarctic ice sheet (Drewry and Meldrum 1978a; 1978b). The broad aims have been to extend a 100-km grid network over Antarctica for a study of surface form, thickness, internal structure, rheology, thermodynamics, electrical properties, basal conditions and processes, and sub-ice geology.

The Challenge of Funding Interdisciplinary Research

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas König ◽  
Michael E. Gorman
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Science ◽  
The One ◽  
The Eu

Public research funding agencies today are required to address proactively interdisciplinary research. “The Challenge of Funding Interdisciplinary Research: A Look Inside Public Research Funding Agencies” looks specifically at two funding agencies—the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the EU European Research Council (ERC)—and how these bodies promote interdisciplinarity, on the one hand, and how they claim to identify it, on the other. Inevitably, this gives the funding agencies some definition power over what interdisciplinary research actually is or should be. At the same time, there are organizational constraints that restrict the funding agencies’ capacity to fully embrace novel ways of interdisciplinary collaboration and investigation.

Government Funding of E-collaboration Research in the European Union

2009 ◽  
pp. 142-150
Author(s):  
Ned Kock ◽  
Pedro Antunes
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Information Society ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Government Investment ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Science ◽  
Us Government ◽  
The Eu

Government funding of e-collaboration research in both the US and EU seems to be growing. In the EU, a key initiative to promote governmental investment in e-collabo-ration research is the Collaboration@Work initiative. This initiative is one of the EU’s Information Society Technologies Directorate General’s main priorities. In the US, government investment in e-collaboration research is channeled through several gov-ernment branches and organizations, notably the National Science Foundation. There are key differences in the approaches used for government funding of e-collaboration research in the EU and US. Some of these differences are discussed here, as well as related implications.

A Knowledge Preservation and Re-Use Tool Based on Context-Driven Reasoning

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (05) ◽  
pp. 1550020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avelino J. Gonzalez ◽  
Brian Sherwell ◽  
Johann Nguyen ◽  
Brian C. Becker ◽  
Víctor Hung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Research ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Science ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Representation Structure ◽  
Contextual Graphs ◽  
Knowledge Preservation

This article describes a knowledge preservation and re-use tool designed to capture the knowledge of a specific individual at the US National Science Foundation, for later retrieval by successors after his retirement. The system is designed in a Q&A format, where it is sufficiently intelligent to ask for clarifying questions. The primary objective was to create a system that would result in acceptance of the system by the users. The domain of interest to be preserved and re-used was programmatic knowledge about the NSF Industry/University Collaborative Research Centers (I/UCRC) Program, and more specifically, the knowledge of its long-time director, Dr. Alex Schwarzkopf. The system is called AskAlex and it uses a trio of techniques to accomplish its objectives. Contextual graphs (CxG) are used as the basic knowledge representation structure. CxG’s are assisted by a search engine and an ontology of terms to help find the proper contextual graph that can best answer the question being asked. Evaluations with users and potential users generally confirm our selection and provided some guidance for improvements in the system.

scholarly journals New maps of the ice thickness and subglacial topography in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, determined by means of airborne radio-echo sounding

1999 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 267-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Steinhage ◽  
U. Nixdorf ◽  
U. Meyer ◽  
H. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Austral Summer ◽  
Ice Thickness ◽  
Ice Volume ◽  
Site Survey ◽  
Radio Echo Sounding ◽  
First Results ◽  
Dronning Maud Land ◽  
Subglacial Topography ◽  
Echo Sounding

AbstractSince the austral summer of 1994-95 the Alfred Wegener Institute has carried out airborne radio-echo sounding (RES) measurements in Antarctica with its newly designed RES system. Since 1995-96 an ongoing pre-site survey for an ice-coring drill site in Dronning Maud Land has been carried out as part of the European Project for Ice Goring in Antarctica. The survey covers an area of 948 000 km2, with >49 500 km of airborne RES obtained from >200 hours of flight operation flown during the period 1994-97. In this paper, first results of the airborne RES survey are graphically summarized as newly derived maps of the ice thickness and subglacial topography, as well as a three-dimensional view of surface and subglacial bed and outcrop topography, revealing a total ice volume of 1.48 x 106 km3.

scholarly journals Chemical biology at the US National Science Foundation

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 511-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilfredo Colón ◽  
Parag Chitnis ◽  
James P Collins ◽  
Janice Hicks ◽  
Tony Chan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Chemical Biology ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Science

scholarly journals A revised inventory of Antarctic subglacial lakes

2005 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARTIN J. SIEGERT ◽  
SASHA CARTER ◽  
IGNAZIO TABACCO ◽  
SERGEY POPOV ◽  
DONALD D. BLANKENSHIP
Keyword(s):  
East Antarctica ◽  
Large Lake ◽  
Dome A ◽  
Lake Vostok ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Us ◽  
Radio Echo Sounding ◽  
Subglacial Lakes ◽  
Lake Type ◽  
Echo Sounding

The locations and details of 145 Antarctic subglacial lakes are presented. The inventory is based on a former catalogue of lake-type features, which has been subsequently reanalysed, and on the results from three additional datasets. The first is from Italian radio-echo sounding (RES) of the Dome C region of East Antarctica, from which 14 new lakes are identified. These data also show that, in a number of occasions, multiple lake-type reflectors thought previously to be individual lakes are in fact reflections from the same relatively large lake. This reduces the former total of lake-type reflectors by six, but also adds a significant level of information to these particular lakes. The second dataset is from a Russian survey of the Dome A and Dome F regions of East Antarctica, which provides evidence of 18 new lakes and extends the coverage of the inventory considerably. The third dataset comprises three airborne RES surveys undertaken by the US in East Antarctica over the last five years, from which forty three new lakes have been identified. Reference to information on Lake Vostok, from Italian and US surveys taken in the last few years, is now included.

scholarly journals A new 122 mm electromechanical drill for deep ice-sheet coring (DISC): 5. Experience during Greenland field testing

2007 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 54-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay A. Johnson ◽  
William P. Mason ◽  
Alexander J. Shturmakov ◽  
Scott T. Haman ◽  
Paul J. Sendelbach ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Ice Sheet ◽  
Ice Cores ◽  
Field Testing ◽  
The Us ◽  
National Science ◽  
Drill System

AbstractThe Deep Ice Sheet Coring (DISC) drill developed by Ice Coring and Drilling Services under contract with the US National Science Foundation is an electromechanical ice-drill system designed to take 122mm ice cores to depths of 4000 m. The new drill system was field-tested near Summit camp in central Greenland during the spring/summer of 2006. Testing was conducted to verify the performance of the DISC drill system and its individual components and to determine the modifications required prior to the system’s planned deployment for coring at the WAIS Divide site in Antarctica in the following year. The experiments, results and the drill crew’s experiences with the DISC drill during testing are described and discussed.

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