PSICE: Penn State Ice

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PSICE Penn StateIce Climate Exploration

• Anandakrishnan Alley plus many many more

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Expanding Excellence

• PSICE has been successful for past 3 years.
• Virtual home for ice folks at PSU.
• Leveraging of CReSIS.
• Extensive outreach, diversity, undergrad research.

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A home for all icers

• Enormous value for new researchers and students.
• Lampkin, Gooseff, Parizek, Walker, Reusch.
• ... and established but not traditionally polar
  Clothiaux, LaFemina, (collaborations with Singha)

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Outreach

• Branding of our research and researchers
  amplifies what we do.
• Potential students like seeing a group, not
  individuals
• Easier to sell ice when you can draw on so much

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Research

• Ryan Walker (PSICE postdoc). (paid for by
  CReSIS Comer works on psice stuff).
• Lampkin proposals highlight PSICE.
• CReSIS renewal this year also.
• Grad Students like PSICE umbrella.
• Supported 9 undergrads for summer research (1/2
  minorities, 1/2 women)

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The Ask

• Let us keep our name!
• 3K for website upgrade to proper CMS (content
  management system)
• 3.7K for 3 laptops for summer research students
  (in past we have used Geosc computer lab - but
  that isolates students)