Climate, Land Surfaces and the Biosphere: An Interdisciplinary Research and Education Program

9506588福利这个奖项是根据国家科学基金会的职业计划颁发的。首席研究员是一位年轻的科学家，他选择了跨学科研究这一具有挑战性的过程。福利博士项目的研究部分侧重于增进对全球环境系统的理解，特别是对生物生物圈和物理气候系统之间的界面的理解。气候对自然生态系统和管理的生态系统都是至关重要的；相反，陆地生态系统显著影响陆地表面-大气界面的水分、动量和能量的交换，从而影响气候。为了适当地调查这些相互作用的动态并评估气候变化对系统的潜在影响，需要使用能够捕捉所涉及的物理和生物过程的关键要素的模型。Foley博士试图改善生物物理和生物地球化学过程在全球和大陆范围的生态系统模型中的表现。为此，将建立一个综合生物圈调查模型，该模型由处理地表通量、植被覆盖、营养循环和水文过程的四个子模型组成。他的项目的教育部分涉及为本科生开发新的跨学科教学材料和跨学科课程。该奖项由三个部门共同支持--环境生物学、地球和大气科学，作为全球变化下的水与能源：大气、植物和地球相互作用(Weave)计划的一部分。

9506588 Foley This award is made under NSF's CAREER Program. The principal investigator is a young scientist who has chosen to pursue the challenging course of interdisciplinary research. The research portion of Dr. Foley's project is focused on improving understanding of global environmental systems, particularly the interface between the living biosphere and the physical climate system. Climate is of paramount importance to both natural and managed ecosystems; conversely, the terrestrial ecosystems significantly influence the exchange of moisture, momentum, and energy at the land surface-atmosphere interface, affecting climate. To properly investigate the dynamics of these interactions and to evaluate the potential impacts of climate change on the system require the use of models which capture the key elements of the physical and biological processes involved. Dr. Foley seeks to improve the representation of biophysical and biogeochemical processes in global and continental-scale ecosystem models. This will be done by constructing an integrated biosphere investigation model composed of four sub-models to handle surface fluxes, vegetation cover, nutrient cycling and hydrologic processes. The educational portion of his project involves the development of new interdisciplinary instructional materials and interdisciplinary courses for the undergraduate level. The support for this award is shared by three divisions - Environmental Biology, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences as part of the Water and Energy: Atmospheric, Vegetative, and Earth Interactions (WEAVE) Program under Global Change.