Planning Visit in Support of a Collaborative Paleoclimate Study Between USA and Indonesian Scientists

印度尼西亚海提供了从西赤道太平洋恢复高分辨率气候档案的最佳机会。计划访问资助将允许PI和两名学生前往印度尼西亚，以启动美国和印度尼西亚之间的新研究合作，研究印度-太平洋暖池的古海洋学和古气候学。这项拟议的研究建立在以前的合作基础上，这些合作对该地区气候变化的可能控制产生了重要的见解。在访问期间，我们将会见科学家和政府官员，以发展这种新的合作，并检查他们的研究船和设备。学生将有机会积极体验建立国际联合研究的讨论，将与潜在的合作者会面，并将在美国展示他们自己的工作。这将是一个难得的机会，让他们学习如何在偏远的非常规地区进行科学研究。

Indonesian Seas provide the best opportunity to recover high-resolution climate archives from the western equatorial Pacific. The planning visit grant will allow the PI and two students to travel to Indonesia in order to initiate new research collaboration between USA and Indonesia to study the paleoceanography and paleoclimatology of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool. This proposed study builds upon previous collaboration that has yielded important insights about possible controls of climate variability in this region. During the visit we will meet with scientists and government officials in order to develop this new collaboration and to examine their research ships and equipment. The students will have an opportunity to actively experience the discussion of establishing a joint international study, will meet with potential collaborators and will present their own work in the USA. This will be a unique opportunity for them to learn what it takes to do science in remote unconventional places.