International Research Fellow Awards: A Regional Analysis of Hydrological & Biogeochemical Processes at the Terrestrial-Aquatic Interface of Andean Amazon River Sys

9704268麦克莱恩国际研究员奖励计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究。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。该奖项将支持迈阿密大学的Michael E. McClain博士进行为期24个月的博士后研究访问，与秘鲁利马国立农业大学的Carlos a . Llerena博士合作。麦克莱恩博士将对秘鲁安第斯山脉东部河流陆水界面的水文和生物地球化学过程进行区域分析。该项目将与另一个由NSF赞助的项目——亚马逊河碳实验（CAMREX）联系起来。这一研究表明，河岸带是化学变化和运输的特别活跃的环境。至关重要的是，现在必须收集化学和动态数据的基线，以便在广泛开发通常是目标河岸带之前与物理盆地特征进行比较。用化学方法校准这些过程并将它们与广泛的集水区特性联系起来是一个重要的想法，这些集水区特性可以在大范围内遥感并在GIS模型的背景下进行解释。这项工作还将为另一项研究倡议提供核心，即安第斯亚马逊河分析和监测（AARAM）项目，该项目最初由美洲全球变化研究所资助。它将把来自玻利维亚、秘鲁、厄瓜多尔、哥伦比亚、巴西、法国和美国的科学家联系起来

9704268 McClain The International Research Fellow Awards Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty four months of research abroad. 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. Michael E. McClain of the University of Miami to work with Dr. Carlos A. Llerena at the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina in Lima, Peru. Dr. McClain will initiate a regional analysis of hydrological and biogeochemical processes operating at the terrestrial-aquatic interface of rivers in the eastern Andean cordillera of Peru. This project will link with another NSF sponsored program, the Carbon in the Amazon River Experiment (CAMREX). This research indicates that riparian zones are particularly active environments of chemical change and transport. It is critical that a baseline of chemical and dynamic data be collected now, for comparison to physical basin characteristics before extensive development of the often targeted riparian zones. It is an important idea to calibrate these processes chemically and relate them to broad catchment properties that can be remotely sensed on a large scale and interpreted within the context of a GIS model. This work will also provide the nucleus of another research initiative, the Andean Amazon Rivers Analysis and Monitoring (AARAM) Project, which is being funded initially by the Inter American Institute for Global Change Researah. It will link scientists from Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, France and the U.S. ***