Joint Research Planning Meeting-Comparative Studies of Coastal and Nearshore Environmental Changes in the U.S. and China

0827111张平（美国德州农工大学）该奖项支持中美沿海和近岸环境变化比较研究联合研究规划会议。会议将于2008年10月在中国山东省青岛市举行。中方主要合作伙伴是中国海洋大学杨祖生教授；中国科学院海洋研究所胡敦新教授。TAMU与中国研究人员之间的初步讨论确定了三个优先研究领域：1)近岸/沿海过程，2)生物地球化学过程和3)气候/盆地尺度过程。规划会议将允许与会者就这些主题编写联合研究建议。研究建议将利用长江和密西西比河流域之间的相似之处，以解决受人类活动和气候变化和变化严重影响的沿海和海洋环境相关主题的不确定性。这种变化反过来又有可能造成广泛的社会和环境变化。获得NSF奖励的10名参与者包括2名高级教师，2名初级教师，6名高级研究生和博士后研究人员。此次规划会议预计将产生的联合研究建议将涉及美中两国及其他国家共同面临的社会问题，从地方和区域渔业经济到全球气候的永久性变化。除了研究进展之外，这些提案还将加强对沿海、海洋和气候科学家的培训，使他们能够在所有空间和时间尺度上解决关键的环境问题。* * *

ABSTRACTOISE 0827111 Chang, Ping, (Texas A&M U.)This award supports a Joint Research Planning Meeting on Comparative Studies of Coastal and Nearshore Environmental Changes in the U.S. and China. The meeting will be held in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, in October 2008. The key Chinese partners are Prof. Zousheng YANG, of the Ocean University of China; and Prof. Dunxin HU, of the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Preliminary discussions between the TAMU and Chinese researchers have identified three priority research areas: 1) nearshore/coastal processes, 2) biogeochemical processes, and 3) climate/basin scale processes. The planning meeting will allow the participants to prepare joint research proposals on these themes. The research proposals will exploit the parallels between the Yangtze and Mississippi River basins to resolve uncertainties on the interrelated themes of coastal and ocean environments that are heavily impacted by human activity and climate variability and change. Such changes, in turn, have the potential to create widespread societal and environmental changes. The ten participants to be supported by the NSF award include two senior faculty, two junior faculty, and six advanced graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. The joint research proposals expected to result from this planning meeting will be relevant to societal issues shared by the U.S. and China and beyond, ranging from local and regional fisheries economies to permanent changes in global climate. In addition to the research advances, the proposals will enhance the training of coastal, ocean, and climate scientists capable of addressing critical environmental concerns at all scales of space and time. ***