U.S.-U.S.S.R. Cooperative Science: Workshop in Quarternary Terrestrial Records (Fairbanks, AK; June 1, 1991)

阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯分校的玛丽·E·爱德华兹博士和拉塞尔·D·格思里博士以及苏联莫斯科谢弗佐夫进化动物形态和生态学研究所的安德烈·V·谢尔博士将在阿拉斯加大学举办研讨会，1991年6月，费尔班克斯在贝林贾、东西伯利亚和阿拉斯加处理在解释古生态和古气候学记录方面的常见问题。在讲习班之前，将在两个关键化石地点进行广泛的实地工作，这两个地点的记录与西伯利亚北部的记录有一定的可比性。这是对苏联科学院在西伯利亚下科利马低地举办的实地研讨会的回报。遥远的北方是研究过去环境及其与未来全球变化的相关性的特殊地方。Beringia一再将东西半球的生物群联系在一起，对这两个大陆产生了重大影响。贝林贾是第四纪研究的重要地点，因为这一地区记录了过去的气候事件及其导致的生态变化。这些可测年的沉积物以古土壤、植物微型和大型化石的形式记录了这些变化的影响，并在哺乳动物的快速进化中产生了影响。他们的主要目标是将美国和苏联的科学家聚集在一个扩大的实地研讨会的情况下，以增加东西方的信息流动，并为未来制定联合研究战略。这一古生态/古气候学项目通过使美国和东欧的顶尖研究人员能够结合互补的人才，并在共同感兴趣的领域汇集研究资源，实现了促进科学知识的计划目标。

Drs. Mary E. Edwards and Russell D.Guthrie, University of Alaska, Fairbanks and Andrei V. Sher, Severtsov Institute of Evolutionary Animal Morphology and Ecology, Moscow, USSR will hold a workshop at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks in June 1991 to deal with common problems in the interpretation of paleoecological and paleoclimatological records in Beringia, eastern Siberia and Alaska. The workshop would be preceded by extended work in the field at two critical fossil localities which contain somewhat comparable records to those in northern Siberia. This reciprocates a field-workshop held on the lower Kolyma lowland in Siberia, sponsored by the Soviet Academy of Science. The far north is a special place for studies of past environments and their relevance to future global changes. Beringia has repeatedly linked the biota of eastern and western hemispheres, affecting both continents in major ways. Beringia is an important location for Quaternary studies, as this region contains a good record of past climatic events and their resulting ecological changes. The datable sediments document the effects of these changes in the form of paleosols, plant micro- and macrofossils, and in rapid mammalian evolution. Their main objective is to bring together U.S. and U.S.S.R. scientists in an extended field-workshop situation to increase the flow of information east and west, and to develop a joint research strategy for the future. This project in paleoecology/paleoclimatology fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling leading researchers in the United States and Eastern Europe to combine complementary talents and pool research resources in areas of strong mutual interest.