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，以支持全球变化系统国际秘书处的工作，分析，研究和培训（START）。 START是国际地圈生物圈计划（IGBP）、世界气候研究计划（WCRP）和全球环境变化中人的因素计划（HDP）联合发起的一个计划。 这些网络的主要使命是：（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;（3）向决策者和政府提供区域相关的综合和评价信息。 START协助发展一个不断发展的区域研究网络系统，每个网络将包括至少一个区域研究中心和若干区域研究点。 其中最发达的网络是美洲全球变化研究所。 欧洲全球变化研究网络和亚太全球变化研究网络也在发展之中。 这些活动的资金由国家航空航天局和美国能源部代表美国全球变化研究方案的所有参与机构提供。 裁武条约秘书处在运作的最初几年中发挥了重要作用，建立了必要的国际联系，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。 美国地球物理学联合会对裁武条约秘书处的赞助加强了裁武条约的基础，使其能够努力实现其目标，即促进对全球环境变化的区域根源和影响的研究，并提高当地进行全球变化研究的科学能力。

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.