International Postdoctoral Fellows Program: An Ecosystem Study of Taiwan Fu-Shan Experimental Watershed: Biogeochemistry of Lead in the Subtropical Forest

该奖项是根据国际初级研究员和博士后研究员计划，使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究，在证明卓越的研究中心。该计划的奖项提供了联合研究的机会，以及使用国外独特或互补的设施，专业知识和实验条件。 该奖项将支持耶鲁大学的Edward Xu Wang博士与Hen-biau King博士在台湾台北的台湾林业研究所进行为期24个月的博士后研究访问。 这项研究是长期生态研究地点国际网络的一部分，目的是研究亚热带森林生态系统。 本项目的主要目的是研究亚热带森林生态系统中Pb的地球化学，并评价酸化对痕量金属循环的影响。 这项研究将为美国其他类型的生态系统提供比较数据，这将是一个种子项目，旨在刺激美国科学家在该地区进行更大规模的合作研究。

This award is under the International Junior Investigator and Postdoctoral Fellows Program, which enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty-four months of research abroad at research centers of proven excellence. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad. This award will support a twenty-four month postdoctoral research visit by Dr. Edward Xu Wang of Yale University to work with Dr. Hen-biau King at the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute in Taipai, Taiwan. This research, which is part of the international network of Long-Term Ecological Research sites, is to study forested subtropical ecosystems. It's primary goals are to study Pb biogeochemistry in a subtropical forested ecosystem, and to evaluate the effects of acidification on trace metal cycling. The study will provide comparative data to other types of ecosystems in the U.S. It will be a seed project aimed at stimulating larger scale cooperative research for American scientists in this region.