Ecosystem Transitions from Andean Cloud Forest to the Lowland Amazon:a Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute on Tropical ecology, Biogeochemistry, and Climate in Peru; June, 2011

这项由美国国家科学基金会和能源部共同支持的泛美高级研究所（PASI）奖将于2011年6月/7月在秘鲁亚马逊地区的多个地点举行。 由Scott Saleska博士组织（亚利桑那大学）和史蒂芬沃夫西（哈佛大学），与Plinio Camargo博士合作（巴西圣保罗大学），丹·梅特卡夫（瑞典农业科学大学，瑞典）和Norma Salinas（圣安东尼奥阿巴德大学，秘鲁），PASI将探讨森林结构的差异如何沿着沿着海拔样带可以洞察未来的亚马逊森林在气候变化。 该课程将开始在3,000米的秘鲁安第斯云雾森林和结束在低地亚马逊森林网站。 拟议活动的创造性组成部分是将课堂和实地教学与沿着明确定义的主题开发的小组项目相结合。 事实证明，这一方法在促进新领域的跨学科研究方面是有效的，特别是在为未来的国际合作研究项目奠定基础方面。PASI旨在通过为来自美国的研究生和博士后研究员提供国际和跨学科课程，促进对安第斯-亚马逊地区森林-气候相互作用的生态和生物地球化学机制的认识和理解，英国，秘鲁和巴西。 从PASI产生的关于热带森林的结构和功能的知识，现在和将来，将为一些学科的重要问题提供信息，包括生态学，大气科学，水文学，地球化学，土壤科学和空间科学，并有可能增加在热带环境中工作的研究人员的数量。 PASI补充了巴西亚马逊现有的NSF PIRE计划，这将有助于利用重要的财务和物流资源。 课程项目，如提案中所述，可能会导致研究活动和发表论文。 PASI的结果将通过一个方案网站传播。

This Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes (PASI) award, jointly supported by the NSF and the Department of Energy (DOE), will take place during June/ July 2011 at various sites within the Peruvian Amazon region. Organized by Drs. Scott Saleska (University of Arizona), and Steven Wofsy (Harvard University), with the collaboration of Drs. Plinio Camargo (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Dan Metcalfe (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden) and Norma Salinas (Universidad San Antonio Abad, Peru), the PASI will explore how differences in forest structure along an elevation transect may give insight into the future of Amazon forests under climate change. The course will begin at 3,000 m in a Peruvian Andean cloud forest and finish at a lowland Amazon forest site. The creative component of the proposed activities is the integration of classroom- and field-based instruction with group projects developed along well-defined themes. This approach has proven effective in facilitating interdisciplinary research in new areas, especially in laying the groundwork for future collaborative international research projects. The PASI aims to advance knowledge and understanding of the ecological and biogeochemical mechanisms driving forest-climate interactions in the Andes-Amazon region through an international and interdisciplinary course for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from the U.S., U.K., Peru and Brazil. The knowledge generated from the PASI on the structure and function of tropical forests, now and in the future, stands to inform questions important to a number of disciplines, including ecology, atmospheric science, hydrology, biogeochemistry, soil science and spatial sciences, and has the potential to increase the number of researchers working in tropical environments. The PASI complements an existing NSF PIRE program in the Brazilian Amazon, which will help leverage significant financial and logistical resources. Course projects, as outlined in the proposal, will likely lead to research activities and published papers. Results of the PASI will be disseminated through a program website.