The U.S. GLOBEC Office: The Coordinating Office of the Scientific Steering Committee

美国GLOBec（全球海洋生态系统——美国全球变化计划的一部分）是一项科学努力，旨在评估全球气候变化的后果，以及海洋物理运输的伴随变化，对海洋动物生产的可持续性的影响。该计划旨在了解物理过程如何影响海洋中单个动物的成功-它们的喂养，生长，繁殖和生存。然后，可以利用全球气候模式将全球变化与区域海洋物理变化联系起来，进而将区域物理变化与影响单个生物的空间尺度上的变化联系起来。对浮游动物生命阶段的影响将被强调，因为如此多的海洋动物至少经历一个浮游生物生命阶段，因为浮游生物的大小类别最受其流体环境的物理性质的支配。该项目寻求维持一个美国GLOBEC协调办公室，以执行这样一个大型跨学科项目所需的许多功能。这样一个办公室的任务可分为四大类。首先，规划和协调与科学指导委员会（SSC）的工作有关的活动——主要是会议。第二，南南合作的后勤保障具体情况。第三，与美国（和海外）庞大而多样化的GLOBEC社区的沟通——包括物理和生物海洋学家，以及渔业专家。最后，一个新的努力，规划和协调与最近成立的国际方案。托马斯·鲍威尔教授将在1992年5月1日之前担任美国GLOBEC南南合作委员会主席。协调办公室将搬到它的新家——鲍威尔所在的机构——加州大学戴维斯分校环境研究系。

U.S. GLOBec (GLOBal Ocean ECosystem--a part of the U.S. global change program) is a scientific effort designed to evaluate the consequences of global climate change, and the concomitant changes in physical transports in the sea, on the sustainability of animal production in the ocean. The program seeks to understand how physical processes influence the success of individual animals in the sea--their feeding, growth, reproduction, and survivorship. Models of global climate can then be used to relate global change to changes in regional ocean physics and, subsequently, changes in regional physics to modifications at the spatial scales that influence individual organisms. Effects on zooplankton life stages will be emphasized because so many marine animals undergo at least one planktonic life stage and because the planktonic size classes are most at the mercy of the physics of their fluid environment. This project seeks to maintain a U.S. GLOBEC Coordinating Office to carry out the many functions necessary for such a large inter- disciplinary program. The tasks of such an office fall into four broad categories. First, planning and coordination activities associated with the efforts--largely meetings--of the Scientific Steering Committee (SSC). Second, specifics of logistics and support for the SSC. Third, communications with the large and diverse GLOBEC community in the U.S. (and overseas)--involving both physical and biological oceanographers, as well as fisheries specialists. Finally, a new endeavor, planning and coordination with the recently-formed international program. Professor Thomas M. Powell will assume the chairmanship of the U.S. GLOBEC SSC before 1 May 1992. The Coordinating Office will move to its new home, at Powell's institution, in the Division of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Davis.