Workshop for Climate Change Strategic Planning, Fairfax, VA

该奖项将为一个为期两天的研讨会提供支持，该研讨会将聚集来自全球变化科学领域的学术、私营和政府部门的精选专家，包括物理和生物科学：气候变率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；以及全球变化的人类层面：气候变化经济学、环境法、政策与治理、教育、沟通与公众参与、决策与其他利益相关者？问题。研讨会的目标是探讨如何构建国家全球变化研究计划的选择方案，以：(1)围绕科学与社会的综合问题更有效地组织起来，促进跨领域研究，重点是理解气候、人类和环境系统之间的相互作用，并支持社会对气候变化的反应；(2)平衡基础研究、应用启发式研究、气候服务、气候变化评估和适应研究的活动，这些研究有助于提高认识和更有效的决策。项目结构必须有利于满足国家面对深刻的环境变化挑战的端到端的需求。从基础研究和综合观察到多学科应用，再到社会经济和生态系统适应和减缓行动。本次研讨会将探讨在解决基础研究问题方面继续取得进展的挑战，以及在考虑气候和全球变化的复杂问题时提供越来越有用和相关的信息的挑战。讲习班还将探讨如何将全球变化研究目前已有的和预计将在今后十年发展的跨学科发现和工具与社会需求相结合，以应对全球变化不可避免地将产生的困难和/或最好地利用这些机会。支撑这种映射的是社会科学，它可以提供经济、治理和沟通的背景，帮助将研究成果转化为公众和决策者。知识价值：汇集基础研究界和对气候和全球变化有一定风险的利益相关者的社区，是过去20年美国全球变化研究的一个挑战。本次研讨会将考虑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知识探索，以减轻气候变化的负面影响。该研讨会有可能确定不同研究学科之间整合和合作的新方法，从而改变该国气候变化研究的行为。更广泛的影响：研讨会的讨论可以为联邦政府提供信息，因为它正在为全球变化研究的新时代做准备，也可以为州和地方政府寻求关于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.