Workshop for Climate Change Strategic Planning, Fairfax, VA

该奖项将为为期两天的研讨会提供支持，该研讨会将汇集来自全球变化科学的学术、私人和政府部门的精选专家小组，包括物理和生物科学：气候变异性和变化的物理和动力学、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；以及全球变化的人的层面：气候变化经济学、环境法、政策和治理、教育、传播和公共参与，以及决策和其他利益攸关方？问题。研讨会的目标是探索如何构建关于全球变化的国家研究计划的备选方案，以(1)更有效地围绕综合的科学-社会问题来组织，以促进侧重于了解气候、人类和环境系统之间的相互作用并支持社会应对气候变化的横向研究；以及(2)平衡基础的、受使用启发的研究中的活动，有助于增进理解和更有效的决策、气候服务、气候变化评估和适应研究。计划结构必须有助于满足国家面对深刻环境变化挑战的端到端需求？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缓解行动。该讲习班将探讨在解决基本研究问题方面继续取得进展，并提供对因考虑气候和全球变化而变得复杂的问题的决策越来越有用和相关的信息所面临的挑战。讲习班还将探讨如何将全球变化研究现有的、预计将在未来十年发展起来的跨学科研究结果和工具与应对困难和/或最大限度地利用全球变化不可避免地将创造的机会的社会需求联系起来。支撑这一映射的是社会科学，它可以提供经济学、治理和沟通的背景，帮助将研究成果转化为普通公众和决策者。知识价值：将基础研究社区和对气候和全球变化有一定风险敞口的利益相关者社区聚集在一起，是美国过去20年全球变化研究的一个挑战。本次研讨会将讨论一个国家项目的结构架构，该项目可以支持气候科学、适应研究和技术开发领域的智力调查，以缓解气候变化的负面影响。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，从而改变国家气候变化研究的行为。更广泛的影响：研讨会的讨论可以为联邦政府以及州和地方政府提供信息，联邦政府正在为全球变化研究的新时代做准备，州和地方政府寻求有关全球变化如何影响其地区的紧迫问题的答案。基础研究、应用研究、气候服务和决策支持的更大程度的整合，有可能在学术界与私营部门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.