Support for the International Secretariat of the Global Change System for Analysis, Research, and Training (START)

9424301为便利对世界各地全球变化的原因和后果进行区域审查，许多国家共同努力确定科学问题，并制定合作努力研究和解决问题的计划。为了促进这些努力，国际地圈-生物圈方案(IGBP)、世界气候研究方案(WCRP)和全球环境变化的人的因素方案(HDP)建立了全球变化分析、研究和培训系统(START)。START是一个不断发展的区域研究网络系统，每个网络将由至少一个区域研究中心和一些区域研究站点组成。其中最发达的是美洲全球变化研究所(IAI)。欧洲全球变化研究网络和亚洲-太平洋变化研究网络也在发展之中。除了鼓励和支持美国顶尖科学家参与IAI和其他地区性研究网络外，参与美国全球变化研究计划(US/GCRP)的联邦机构还通过赞助国际START秘书处，努力促进这些宝贵的国际合作。在过去几年中，这项活动的运作得到了跨学科地球科学信息网联盟(CIESIN)的支持。然而，CIESIN预算的变化迫使其将重点放在其他活动上，因此，美国地球物理联盟(AGU)将为削减战略武器条约秘书处的业务提供核心支助。这些活动的资金由国家科学基金会、国家航空航天局和美国能源部代表美国/GCRP的所有参与机构提供。《削减战略武器条约》秘书处在其运作的最初几年中，在建立必要的国际联系方面发挥了重要作用，以增加世界各地，特别是发展中国家的研究人员对全球变化研究的参与。区域研究网络正处于发展的关键阶段，一个强有力的START秘书处对于继续这项基本工作至关重要。AGU对裁武大会秘书处的赞助应能加强裁武大会的基础，使其能够有效地实现其目标，即促进对全球环境变化的区域根源和影响的研究，并加强全球变化研究的本土科学能力。

9424301 SPILHAUS In order to facilitate regional examinations of the causes and consequences of global change around the world, many nations have worked together to identify scientific issues and to develop plans for collaborative efforts to study and address problems. To facilitate these efforts, the International Geosphere- Biosphere Programme (IGBP), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), and the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Programme (HDP) have established a Global Change System for Analysis, Research, and Training (START). START is an evolving system of regional research networks, each of which will consist of at least one regional research center and a number of regional research sites. Among the most developed of these networks is the Inter-American Institute for Global Change (IAI). Also under development are the European Network for Research In Global Change (ENRICH) and the Asian-Pacific Network for Glmbal Change Research (APN). In addition to encouraging and supporting the involvement of leading U.S. scientists in the IAI and other regional research networks, the federal agencies participating in the U.S. Global Change Research Program (US/GCRP) have sought to facilitate these valuable international collaborations by sponsoring the international START secretariat. For the past few years, operations of this activity have been supported by the Consortium for Interdisciplinary Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). Changes in CIESIN's budget have forced it to focus on other activities, however, and as a result, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) will provide core support for START secretariat operations. Funding for these activities is provided by the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the U.S. Department of Energy on behalf of all participating agencies in the US/GCRP. During its initial years of operation, the START secretariat has played an important rol e in building the international linkages necessary to increase the involvement in global change studies of researchers from around the world, and especially from developing nations. The regional research networks are at critical stages of development, and a strong START secretariat is essential to continue this essential work. AGU's sponsorship of the START secretariat should strengthen START's foundation and enable it to effectively attain its goals of promoting research on the regional origins and implications of global environmental changes and of enhancing indigenous scientific capacities for global change research.