U.S. Support for the International START Secretariat

该奖项为美国地球物理联盟提供了新的支持，以支持全球变化分析、研究和培训系统（START）国际秘书处的工作。 START 是国际地圈-生物圈计划 (IGBP)、世界气候研究计划 (WCRP) 和全球环境变化人类因素计划 (HDP) 联合发起的计划。 这些网络的主要任务是（1）对全球变化的区域方面进行研究，（2）评估区域研究结果的影响，以及（3）向政策制定者和政府提供区域相关的综合和评估信息。 START 协助开发一个不断发展的区域研究网络系统，每个区域研究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。 其中最发达的网络是美洲全球变化研究所（IAI）。 同样正在建设中的还有欧洲全球变化研究网络（ENRICH）和亚太全球变化研究网络（APN）。 这些活动的资金由美国国家航空航天局和美国能源部代表美国全球变化研究计划的所有参与机构提供。 在其运作的最初几年中，《战略武器条约》秘书处在建立必要的国际联系方面发挥了重要作用，以促进世界各地，特别是发展中国家的研究人员参与全球变化研究。 美国地球物理联盟对《削减战略武器条约》秘书处的赞助加强了《削减战略武器条约》的基础，使其能够努力实现其目标，即促进对全球环境变化的区域起源和影响的研究，以及加强本土科学能力进行全球变化研究。

This award provides renewed support to the American Geophysical Union for support of the work of the International Secretariat of the Global Change System for Analysis, Research, and Training (START). START is a jointly sponsored program of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), and the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Programme (HDP). The primary mission of these networks is (1) to conduct research on regional aspects of global change, (2) to assess the impacts of the regional findings, and (3) to provide regionally relevant integrated and evaluated information to policy makers and governments. START assists in the development of 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 Global Change Research (APN). Funds for these activities have been provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the U.S. Department of Energy on behalf of all participating agencies in the U.S. Global Change Research Program. During its initial years of operation, the START secretariat has played an important role 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 American Geophysical Union's sponsorship of the START secretariat has strengthened START's foundation and enabled it to work toward 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.