Workshop: Benefit and Practicality of the Establishment of a Virtual Climate Institute on the West Coast; Los Angeles, California; Summer 2008

该奖项有助于支持一个研讨会，以探索建立一个支持网络的古气候学虚拟网络的潜在好处。该小组最初的重点是为美国西海岸的研究人员建立这样一个研究所。具体地说，首席调查员将为大约20名在古气候学和气候研究相关方面具有专业知识的科学家提供参与者支持，以参与演讲和讨论，审查建立一个将研究人员联系在一起的虚拟研究所的科学优势和劣势。该小组努力的前提是“没有一家机构拥有应对与美国气候变化研究计划相关的所有科学挑战所需的专业知识的理想组合”，因此，他们正寻求通过一个由网络支持的虚拟研究所，“为科学家建立快速合作和共享信息的替代方法”。该小组预计未来几年的一些重要科学主题涉及冰盖动力学、海洋/大气相互作用和区域水文变化。参与者将包括经验丰富的研究人员、新的研究人员和学生。通过这种方式，将能够就科学和虚拟研究所的概念进行开放和活跃的意见交流。

This award helps support a workshop to explore the potential benefits of establishing a cyber-enabled virtual network for paleoclimatology. The group's initial focus is on developing such an institute for researchers on the West Coast of the United States.Specifically, the lead investigator will provide participant support for approximately twenty scientists with expertise in paleoclimatology and related aspects of climate research to participate in presentations and discussions that examine the scientific strengths and weaknesses of establishing a virtual institute that ties researchers together. The premise of the group's efforts is that "no single institution possesses the ideal combination of expertise required to meet all of the scientific challenges associated with the US Climate Change Research Program" so, they are looking to "establish alternative ways for scientists to collaborate and share information rapidly" as through a cyber-enabled virtual institute. Some of the scientific themes that the group anticipates being of importance in the next few years involve ice sheet dynamics, ocean/atmospheric interactions, and regional hydrologic variability.The participants will include seasoned researchers, new investigators, and students. In this manner, an open and lively exchange of views on the science and the concept of a virtual institute will be enabled.