Short-Term Visit to Finalize a Cooperative Research Proposalon Vegetation and Climatic History of the Philippines

小行星9413146 该奖项提供资金，使得克萨斯州植物研究所的杰罗姆·沃德博士能够对菲律宾进行短期访问，与马尼拉国家博物馆植物学部的洛丽塔·布拉拉考博士最后确定合作研究菲律宾植被和气候历史的计划。 在为期三周的访问中，合作者希望（1）为未来的合作和实验设计建立个人联系，（2）收集和分析现场样本，以证明该项目具有足够的科学价值，以证明未来合作研究提案的支持。 合作者希望解决古生态学研究的几个开放性问题。 这项初步研究和随后的热带孢粉学更大项目将为晚第四纪环境变化和植被不稳定性，全新世植物物种迁移和人口扩张以及史前人类对热带森林的影响提供新的见解。 本项目是菲律宾植物群项目（部分由国家科学基金赠款INT- 9320518和INT-9442970号资助）的辅助项目，该项目正在调查菲律宾剩余的原生森林，对所有维管植物物种进行编目，并记录植物多样性。 PI和他的菲律宾合作者在这一研究领域训练有素。 该项目与东亚和太平洋计划的目标有关，该计划旨在通过交流科学信息，思想，技能和技术以及通过在共同利益和利益的问题上进行合作来提高美国和东亚科学家和工程师之间的合作水平。 ***

9413146 Ward This award provides funds to permit Dr. Jerome V. Ward, Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), to make a short-term visit to the Philippines to finalize plans with Dr. Lolita J. Bulalacao, Botany Division, National Museum, Manila, for cooperative research on vegetation and climatic history of the Philippines. During the three-week visit, the collaborators expect to (1) establish personal links for future collaboration and experimental design and (2) collect and analyze field samples in order to demonstrate that the project has sufficient scientific merit to justify support of a future cooperative research proposal. The collaborators expect to address several open questions for a paleoecology study. This preliminary research and the larger project on tropical palynology, to follow, will provide new insights into Late Quaternary environmental change and vegetation instability, Holocene plant species migrations and population expansions, and prehistoric human impacts on the tropical forests. The present project is ancillary to the Flora of the Philippines Project (supported in part by NSF Grants No. INT- 9320518 and INT-9442970) which is surveying the remaining native forests, cataloging all vascular plant species, and documenting the plant diversity in the Philippines. The PI and his Filipino collaborator are well trained in this field of research. This project is relevant to the objectives of the East Asia and Pacific Program which seeks to increase the level of cooperation between U.S. and East Asian scientists and engineers through the exchange of scientific information, ideas, skills, and techniques and through collaboration on problems of mutual interest and benefit. ***