A Cooperative Network of Caribbean Marine Research Institutions: Environmental Monitoring Methods Workshop; Jamaica, December 1990

该奖项将支持一个由大约25名美国和加勒比地区的科学家组成的小组，代表大约20个地区海洋研究机构，参加由南佛罗里达大学约翰·C·奥格登教授及其合作者组织的研讨会。研讨会将在牙买加西印度群岛大学的愉景湾海洋实验室举行，将讨论和进行一套标准化的物理(温度、盐度、光衰减和悬浮固体)和生物(群落结构和主要物种的生长速度)测量的现场试验。这一监测方案将在讲习班结束后得到教科文组织的资助，作为加勒比沿海海洋生产力(CARICOMP)方案的核心。该讲习班将由加勒比海洋生态系统方面的专家领导，并将遵循自1985年在牙买加举行的由教科文组织/国家科学基金会资助的讲习班上启动CARICOMP方案以来在教科文组织支持下编写的方法手册草案。一个关键要素将是制定符合适当统计程序的数据管理协议。CARICOMP方案旨在通过加勒比和邻近水域地理范围内的比较生态系统研究，了解沿海生态系统的长期变化。所请求的支持将使该计划得以实施，因为人们越来越相信，我们正在进入一个由人类影响和全球气候变化导致的海洋生态系统变化的前所未有的时代。

This award will support a group of approximately 25 U.S. and Caribbean scientists, representing around 20 regional marine research institu- tions, to participate in a workshop organized by Prof. John C. Ogden of the University of South Florida and collaborators. The workshop, which is to take place at the Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory of the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, will discuss and conduct fields trials for a suite of standardized physical (temperature, salinity, light attenuation, and suspended solids) and biological (community structure and growth rate of principal species) measure- ments. This monitoring program will be implemented with UNESCO funding following the workshop as the core of the Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity (CARICOMP) program. The Workshop will be led by a staff of experts in Caribbean marine ecosystems and will be guided by a draft Methods Manual produced with UNESCO support since the CARICOMP program was started at a UNESCO/NSF supported workshop in Jamaica in 1985. A key element will be the establishment of data management protocols consistent with proper statistical procedures. The CARICOMP program is directed at an understanding of long-term coastal ecosystem change through comparative ecosystem studies at the geographic scale of the Caribbean and adjacent waters. The requested support will allow the implementation of the program at a time of increasing conviction that we are entering an unprecedented era of marine ecosystem change caused by human impact and global climate change.