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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR AN ICE CORING AND ANALYSIS PROGRAM (ICAP)
Pages 30-33

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... This length of time will be needed, first, to develop an appropriate management structure, scientific plan, engineering capability, and manpower pool; and second, to mount field and laboratory efforts adequate to realize the major scientific opportunities now in sight.
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From page 31...
... activity in ice coring and analysis. To some extent, the model for the management structure recommended here was taken from the highly successful Deep Sea Drilling Program, and its successor programs International Program for Ocean Drilling (IPOD)
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... The ICWG's operations must include a carefully defined set of tasks, which include the following: • Scientific coring plans and provide oversight for each of the three broad geographical regions (Arctic, Antarctic, and mid-latitudes) and a global strategy, • Plan for drilling technology development, • Recommendations for an appropriate balance between capabilities in shallow, intermediate, and deep drilling, • Plan for development and validation of geochemical and geophysical ice analysis techniques, • Representation of U.S.
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... For example, the information about past atmospheric carbon dioxide content and processes in the carbon - cycle are of interest to the Department of Energy, and the problem of future sea level changes produced by future size changes of ice sheets will be of interest to both the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Key Terms

  • ice coring
  • drilling program
  • international effort
  • ice cores
  • scientific leadership

  • deep ice
  • analysis program
  • atmospheric research
  • management structure
  • joint oceanographic

  • advisory body
  • oceanographic institutions
  • deep sea
  • lead agency
  • carefully planned

  • ocean drilling
  • sea drilling
  • manpower pool
  • previous programs
  • scientific program

  • ice sheets
  • scientific questions
  • coring plans
  • expanded program
  • accomplish icap

  • dioxide content
  • institutions deep
  • scientific apparatus
  • characterized previous
  • climatic processes


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