The Panarctic Fauna and Floras Project: A Workshop

美苏联合研讨会将试图确定、开发和协调北极动植物数据库。目前还没有一个协调的系统来检索这类数据或记录关于北极尚未发现的物种的新数据。北极地区的生态极其脆弱，容易受到经济发展和全球气候变化的压力。这次研讨会的目的是开始为随后对生物多样性和全球气候变化的研究奠定北极生态数据的基线。这次会议是由阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯分校的大卫·默里博士和苏联科学院进化动物形态和生态研究所的弗拉基米尔·索科洛夫院士组织的。该项目实现了推进科学知识的计划目标，使美国和苏联的顶尖研究人员能够在平等的基础上结合基础科学研究领域中共同感兴趣和能力强的领域的互补努力和能力，互惠，互惠互利。

A joint U.S.-Soviet workshop will attempt to identify, develop, and coordinate databases on arctic flora and fauna. There is at present no coordinated system for retrieving such data or to record new data about as yet undiscovered species in the arctic. The ecology of the arctic regions is extremely fragile and susceptible to stresses caused by economic development and global climate change. The objective of this workshop is to begin laying a baseline of data about arctic ecology for subsequent studies of biodiversity and global climate change. The meeting is being organized by Dr. David Murray of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks and Academician Vladimir Sokolov of the Institute of Evolutionary Animal Morphology and Ecology of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. This project fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling leading researchers in the United States and the U.S.S.R. to combine complementary efforts and capabilities in areas of strong mutual interest and competence in the field of basic scientific research on the basis of equality, reciprocity, and mutuality of benefit.