This was the second joint workshop for investigators working on the Summit ice cores. Cornelius Sullivan, Director of Office of Polar Programs at NSF, stated in his opening address that the GISP2 program was successful beyond expectations of NSF and the investigators, and he reaffirmed its value to other sciences and society. Over 49 presentations addressed research areas including stable isotopes, accumulation, mole calculations, chemistry and particles, gases, physical properties, and atmospheric compaction measurements. The remainder of the workshop was spent exchanging data sets and working in focus groups to better understand the unparalleled paleoenvironmental record the Summit ice cores. An updated Contribution Series from GISP2, published in October 1995, includes more than 90 papers published in peer-reviewed journals such as Science, Nature, JGR, and Journal of Glaciology.
Many more papers are in press or in review.
Investigators of the record continue. The final GISP2 meeting will take place prior to the American Geophysical Union meeting in either December 1996 or March 1997.