New England Regional Workshop on Climate Change Impact

随着科学研究提高了人们对气候和全球环境其他方面正在发生变化的复杂方式的理解，人们越来越关注这些变化对人类和生态系统的影响。为了应对这些变化，美国全球变化研究计划(USGCRP)和白宫科技政策办公室(OSTP)协调了一系列研讨会的计划，这些研讨会将重点关注全球气候变化在区域范围内的影响。这一系列的7个讲习班计划在1997年春夏举行；预计下一年还将举办另外12个区域讲习班，以及定于1997年11月举行的一个国家讲习班。该奖项为新汉普郡大学举办研讨会提供支持，该研讨会将重点讨论全球气候变化对新英格兰地区的影响。讲习班将于1997年9月3日至5日在圣母大学校园举行。来自康涅狄格州、缅因州、马萨诸塞州、新罕布夏州、罗德岛州、佛蒙特州和纽约州北部的约200人预计将参加研讨会。研讨会将由一套交替的形式组成，包括全体会议、小组发言、分组讨论和公开讨论会议。将重点关注的主题包括全球气候变化对森林、物种多样性、沿海湿地、水生生态系统、沿海资源、水资源、农业、人类健康、能源和交通的影响。讲习班组织者将在讲习班结束后不久编写并分发一份书面报告。这次研讨会将对全球变化对新英格兰各州不同部门和活动的影响提供有价值的新见解。由于它是作为一系列协调一致的区域研讨会的一部分进行的，其结果在美国评估环境变化可能产生的影响的比较框架中也将是有用的。除了它的科学价值，新英格兰研讨会还将吸引来自许多不同领域的当地居民参与讨论，以促进关于这一重要主题的公共教育和推广。

As scientific research has improved understandings of the complex ways that climate and other facets of the global environment are changing, increased attention has focused on the impacts of those changes on people and ecosystems. In response to these changes, the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) have coordinated planning for a series of workshops that will focus on the impacts of global climate change on regional scales. Seven workshops in this series are planned for the spring and summer of 1997; another dozen regional workshops are expected to be held in the following year along with a national workshop, which is scheduled for November 1997. This award provides support to the University of New Hampshire for the conduct of a workshop that will focus on the regional impacts of global climate change in New England. The workshop will be conducted on the UNH campus on 3-5 September 1997. About two hundred people from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and upstate New York are expected to attend the workshop. The workshop will consist of a set of alternating formats, including plenary sessions, panel presentations, break-out discussions, and open-discussion sessions. Topics on which attention will be focused include the impacts of global climate change on forests, species diversity, coastal wetlands, aquatic ecosystems, coastal resources, water resources, agriculture, human health, energy, and transportation. A written report will be prepared and disseminated by the workshop organizers soon after the conclusion of the workshop. This workshop will provide valuable new insights into the impacts of global change on a diverse set of sectors and activities in the New England states. Because it is being conducted as part of a coordinated set of regional workshops, its outcomes will also be useful in a comparative framework as the U.S. assesses likely impacts of environmental change. In addition to its scientific value, the New England workshop will engage local residents from many different fields into discussions that will facilitate public education and outreach about this important topic.