9321499 Mayewski This award is for support for three years of funding for the Science Management Office (SMO) for the Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two (GISP2). The major tasks are: to act as an organizational tool for GISP2 principal investigators; to continue data handling and development of a "final" data set; to coordinate ice core collection activities in Denver at the National Ice Core Laboratory; to guide and organize statistical tools; to maintain current ties with the European Greenland Ice Core Project (GRIP); to include additional viewpoints and disciplines; to handle specific issues (e.g. dating and intercalibration); to coordinate workshops and meetings; to organize final products including a compendium volume and papers; and continued communications with principal investigators, other scientists, the National Science Foundation, GRIP, and the public. ***
