Program to Expand the Scientific Capacity in the Americas (PESCA)

拟议的PESCA计划将扩大现有IAI项目和计划的范围：初始科学计划（ISP）和合作研究网络（CRN）。PESCA将让目前没有充分参与IAI计划/项目活动的国家参与进来，让这些国家的科学家作为项目的全面合作伙伴，以copi的身份参与。根据IAI基于绩效的同行评审制度，确定了以下潜在获奖者（授予古巴的奖项需等待OFAC许可）：Ricardo Herrera-Peraza，古巴：“全球变化对岛屿和大陆生态系统中植被和土壤微生物群多样性的影响”Michael Taylor，西印度群岛大学-莫纳分校，牙买加：“当海洋共同行动：研究热带大西洋和太平洋海温同步异常对加勒比地区降雨的影响[Rodolpho Rodriguez， Antonio Mabres, Ronald Woodman, Universidad de Piura，秘鲁：“厄尔尼诺现象和南美洲热带地区其他气候变化的年代学研究”安东尼·陈，西印度群岛大学莫纳校区，牙买加“分析和理解加勒比群岛的气候变化”Pedro Cisneros， A. Amarakoon， ESPOL，厄瓜多尔/ uwi -莫纳，牙买加：Gabriela Eguren, Claudia Rodriguez, Beatriz Costa, Alice Altesor，乌拉圭共和国大学：《林业对乌拉圭草原的影响：土地利用模式和生态系统功能的变化》，委内瑞拉西蒙玻利瓦尔大学，Lelys Bravo, Bruno Sanso：“南美洲气候变率和变化研究的降尺度活动及其应用”Alejandro Leon，FLACSO，智利：“智利灾害清单，ENSO和非ENSO相关：La Red-Chile项目”Juan Carlos Antuna, Instituto de Meteorologia，古巴：“中南美洲平流层和对流层上层气溶胶的表征”Oscar Betancourt, Marc Lucotte, Marc Roulet，厄瓜多尔/加拿大：“安第斯亚马逊河流域的汞- MAARC项目”Ida Mitrani，气象研究所，古巴：“加勒比地区当地和区域大气环流的高分辨率数值模拟”

The proposed PESCA program will amplify the reach of existing IAI projects and programs: the Initial Science Program (ISP) and the Collaborative Research Network (CRN). PESCA will involve countries now not adequately involved in IAI program/project activities by involving participating scientists from these countries as full partners in the projects, participating as CoPIs.As determined by the IAI's merit based peer review system, the following potential awardees have been identified (awards to Cuba are subject to pending OFAC licensing):Ricardo Herrera-Peraza, Cuba: "The effects of global change on the diversity of vegetation and edaphic microbiota on insular and continental ecosystems"Michael Taylor, University of the West Indies-Mona Campus, Jamaica: "When oceans conspire: Examining the effect of concurrent SST Anomalies in the Tropical Atlantic and Pacific on Caribbean Rainfall"Rodolpho Rodriguez, Antonio Mabres, Ronald Woodman, Universidad de Piura, Peru: "Dendrochronological Studies of El Nino and other climatological variations of the South American Tropical Zone"Antony Chen, University of the West Indies-Mona Campus, Jamaica "Analyzing and understanding climate variability in the Caribbean Islands"Pedro Cisneros, A. Amarakoon, ESPOL, Ecuador /UWI-Mona, Jamaica: "Predicting ENSO effects on sugar cane yields using a weather-generator and mechanistic crop modeling"Gabriela Eguren, Claudia Rodriguez, Beatriz Costa, Alice Altesor, Universidad de la Republica,Uruguay: "Impact of forestry on Uruguayan grasslands: changes in landuse patterns and ecosystem functioning"Lelys Bravo, Bruno Sanso, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela: "Downscaling activities and their applications of studies of climate variability and change in South America"Alejandro Leon,FLACSO, Chile: "An inventory of Disasters in Chile, ENSO and non-ENSO related: A La Red-Chile Project"Juan Carlos Antuna, Instituto de Meteorologia, Cuba: "Characterization of stratospheric and upper tropospheric aerosols over Central and South America"Oscar Betancourt, Marc Lucotte, Marc Roulet, Ecuador / Canada: "Mercury in Andean Amazon river catchments - MAARC Project "Ida Mitrani, Instituto de Meteorologia, Cuba: "High resolution numerical modeling of local and regional atmospheric circulation in the Caribbean"