Conference on Global Long Term Human Ecodyamics

该奖项是根据《2009年美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)资助的。这笔资金将为2009年10月15日至18日在缅因州伊格尔希尔研究所举办的研讨会提供支持，该研讨会将汇集40多位顶尖科学家(考古学家、社会历史学家、民族学家、模型师和气候科学家)，他们几十年来一直在研究人类社会/文化系统和环境系统之间的长期互动。研讨会的主要目标之一是将长期气候变化及其对当地社会制度的影响的全球图景拼凑在一起。正如Pi Thomas McGoven所描述的那样，研讨会的目标是将许多优秀的区域研究领域与他们的跨学科团队、特定案例模型、数字工具和丰富的数据集连接起来，形成一个真正的全球网络，能够在对过程和结果在年度、十年和千年尺度上的运作进行良好整合的长期视角下，在对人类与当地和区域环境相互作用的集体科学理解方面产生“变革性的升级”。麦戈文、佩尔迪卡里斯和奥格维的组织团队一直在研究北大西洋气候及其对北大西洋社会/文化变化的影响。通过这次研讨会，北大西洋研究小组将把他们的观点与在南美洲、中美洲、美索不达米亚、大洋洲、美国西南部、加勒比、北太平洋和北极工作的同事的观点联系起来，以便在全球范围内创造研究和分析的协同效应。预计这次研讨会不会就人与环境的相互作用问题作出明确的声明，而是会促进从新的视角--全球视角--开展研究，这些研究对于促进区域理解人类适应环境变化和与环境变化的相互作用具有重要意义。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This funding will provide support for a workshop to take place at the Research Institute at Eagle Hill Maine, October 15-18th 2009, to bring together over 40 leading scientists (archaeologists, social historians, ethnologists, modelers, and climate scientists) who have for decades been researching the long term interactions between human social/cultural systems and environmental systems. One of the key goals of the workshop is to piece together a global picture of long term climate change and the effects on local social systems. As the PI Thomas McGovern describes it, the objective of the workshop is to connect the many excellent regional research areas with their interdisciplinary teams, case specific models, digital tools and rich data sets, into a genuinely global network that can produce a "transformative upgrade" in the collective scientific understanding of human interactions with local and regional environments, informed by a well integrated long-term perspective on processes and outcomes operation on the annual, decadal, and millennial scale.The organizing team of McGovern, Perdikaris, and Ogilvie have been researching North Atlantic climate and its influence on Norse social/cultural changes. Through this workshop, the North Atlantic research team will connect their perspectives with the perspectives of colleagues working in South America, Mesoamerica, Mesopotamia, Oceania, SW US, Caribbean, North Pacific, and the Arctic in order to create a synergy of research and analyses on a global scale. It is not expected that this workshop will create a definitive statement on human/environmental interactions, but rather will catalyze new perspectives - global perspectives - on research that has been important to creating regional understandings of human adaptation to and interaction with environmental change.