U.S.-Brazil Collaborative Workshop: Integration of Modeling in the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiments in Amazonia (LBA); July 9 - 21, 2000, Brasilia, Brazil

这项美洲计划奖将资助美国科学家参加2000年7月9日至21日在巴西巴西利亚举行的全球变化建模国际研讨会的旅费和相关费用。美国的组织者是新汉普郡大学的多克·萨哈吉安，他的巴西联合组织者是巴西INPE的卡洛斯·诺布雷。该讲习班将有助于发展亚马逊(LBA)大型生物圈-大气实验研究界的建模能力，利用“动手”经验培训参与者进行生态建模，并促进亚马逊科学家与美国和其他研究人员在联合国际项目中的合作。参与者将从职业生涯早期到中期的研究人员中挑选出来，他们最有能力为研讨会贡献区域数据和理解，并将获得的能力传播给他们的同事和学生。研讨会的重点是亚马逊在全球范围内的重点，面向教育和推广，而不是实际的模型开发。这次研讨会讨论的问题对于全球分析、解释和建模工作组(GAIM)的活动至关重要，GAIM是国际地圈生物圈计划(IGBP)的一个组成部分。

This Americas Program award will support travel and related expenses for US scientists to participate in an international workshop on Global Change Modeling to be held in Brasilia, Brazil July 9-21, 2000. The US organizer is Dork Sahagian of the University of New Hampshire, and his Brazilian co-organizer is Carlos Nobre from INPE in Brazil. The workshop will help to develop modeling capabilities of the research community working in Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiments in Amazonia (LBA), train participants in ecological modeling using "hands-on" experience, and foster collaboration between Amazonian scientists and US and other researchers for joint international projects. Participants will be selected from early to mid-career researchers who are in the strongest position to contribute regional data and understanding to the workshop and disseminate the capabilities obtained to their colleagues and students.The workshop takes an Amazonian focus within a global context and is oriented toward education and outreach rather than actual model development. The issues addressed in this workshop are central to the activities of the Task Force on Global Analysis, Interpretation, and Modeling (GAIM), an element of the International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP).