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

该奖项隶属于国际青年研究员和博士后研究员计划，该计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外公认的卓越研究中心进行3至24个月的研究。该计划的奖励为联合研究提供了机会，并利用独特或互补的设施、专业知识和国外的实验条件。该奖项将支持耶鲁大学王旭华博士进行为期24个月的博士后访问，与台湾台湾林业研究所的金亨彪博士合作。这项研究是长期生态研究站点国际网络的一部分，旨在研究亚热带森林生态系统。主要目的是研究亚热带森林生态系统中铅的生物地球化学特征，评价酸化对微量金属循环的影响。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，旨在促进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.