Workshop for Climate Change Strategic Planning, Fairfax, VA

该奖项为为期两天的研讨会提供支持，该研讨会将聚集来自学术界，私营部门和政府部门的全球变化科学专家，包括物理和生物科学：气候多变性和变化的物理学和动力学，土地覆盖和土地利用变化，生态和生物地球化学变化，生物多样性和全球变化;以及全球变化的人类层面：气候变化经济学，环境法，政策和治理，教育，沟通和公众参与，决策和其他利益相关者？问题.研讨会的目标是探索如何构建全球变化国家研究计划的选择，以（1）围绕综合科学-社会问题更有效地组织，以促进跨领域研究，重点关注了解气候、人类和环境系统之间的相互作用以及支持社会应对气候变化;（2）平衡基础研究、使用启发研究、气候服务、气候变化评估和适应研究中的活动，这些研究有助于提高理解和更有效的决策。该计划的结构必须有利于满足国家的端到端的需求，以面对深刻的环境变化的挑战？从基础研究和综合观测，到多学科应用，再到社会经济和生态系统适应和减缓行动。这次研讨会将探讨在解决基础研究问题方面不断取得进展和提供对因考虑气候和全球变化而复杂的问题的决策越来越有用和相关的信息方面的挑战。讲习班还将探讨如何将全球变化研究目前已有的、预计将在今后十年内发展的跨学科研究结果和工具映射到社会需要上，以应对全球变化不可避免地将带来的困难和/或最好地利用全球变化带来的机会。支持这种映射的是社会科学，可以提供经济学，治理和通信的背景，有助于将研究成果转化为公众和决策者。智力优势：汇集基础研究界和利益相关者的社区谁有一些风险暴露于气候和全球变化一直是一个挑战，过去20年的全球变化研究在美国本次研讨会将考虑结构架构的国家计划，可以支持在气候科学，适应研究，为减轻气候变化的负面影响而进行的技术开发。研讨会有可能确定不同研究学科之间整合和合作的新方式，从而改变该国气候变化研究的行为。更广泛的影响：研讨会的讨论可以告知联邦政府，因为它准备了一个新的时代的全球变化研究，和州和地方政府寻求答案的紧迫问题，全球变化如何影响他们的地区。基础研究、应用研究、气候服务和决策支持的更大整合有可能在学术界与私营和政府部门之间开辟新的沟通途径，因为它们都在为不断变化的地球做准备。

This award provides support for a two-day workshop that will gather a select group of experts from the academic, private and government sectors in global change sciences, including the physical and biological sciences: Physics and Dynamics of Climate Variability and Change, Land Cover and Land Use Change, Ecological and Biogeochemical Change, Biodiversity and Global Change; and the human dimensions of global change: Economics of Climate Change, Environmental Law, Policy and Governance, Education, Communication and Public Engagement, and Decision-Making and Other Stakeholders? Issues. The workshop goals are to explore options for how to structure the national research program on global change to (1) be more effectively organized around integrated scientific-societal issues to facilitate crosscutting research focused on understanding the interactions among the climate, human, and environmental systems and on supporting societal responses to climate change; and (2) balance activities in fundamental, use-inspired research that contributes to both improved understanding and more effective decision-making, climate services, climate change assessment, and adaptation research. The program structure must facilitate meeting the end-to-end needs of the nation to face the challenges of profound environmental change ? from basic research and integrated observations through multi-disciplinary applications to socioeconomic and ecosystem adaptation and mitigation actions. This workshop will explore the challenges of both continuing progress in addressing fundamental research questions and providing information that is increasingly useful and relevant to decision-making on matters complicated by considerations of climate and global change. The workshop also will explore ways to map the interdisciplinary findings and tools that global change research currently has available and can be expected to develop over the next decade onto the societal needs for coping with the difficulties and/or taking best advantage of the opportunities that global change inevitably will create. Underpinning this mapping are the social sciences that can provide the context of economics, governance, and communication that helps translate research results to the general public and decision-makers. Intellectual Merit: Bringing together the basic research community and the community of stakeholders who have some risk exposure to climate and global change has been a challenge for the past 20 years of global change research in the U.S. This workshop will consider structural architectures for a national program that can support intellectual inquiry in the areas of climate science, adaptation research, and technology development for the mitigation of negative impacts of climate change. The workshop has the potential to define new ways of integration and collaboration among the diverse research disciplines, thereby transforming the conduct of climate change research in the nation. Broader Impacts: The workshop discussion can inform the Federal government as it prepares for a new era of global change research, and state and local governments seeking answers to pressing questions about how global change affects their regions. The greater integration of basic research, applied research, climate services and decision-support has the potential to open new pathways of communication between the academic world and the private and government sectors as they all prepare for a changing planet.