Support for the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

支持教科文组织政府间海洋学委员会

• 批准号: 1068958
• 负责人: Kathy Tedesco
• 金额: $ 76.22万
• 依托单位: United Nations Educ Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-01-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1068958&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Intergovernmental; Oceanographic; Commission; UNESCO

The PI requests funding to cover the costs of the IOC's program officer to manage the ocean carbon programs of the IOC; namely, the International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP) and IOC's activities in the areas of ocean acidification and ocean carbon sequestration. The proposal also provides support for PhD-level professional's assistance for specific activities of the IOCCP. The IOC program officer serves as a liaison between IOC activities and the IOC Member States, as well as the United Nations conventions and other intergovernmental mandates relevant to the ocean's role in the global carbon cycle, including sequestration and ocean acidification.Broader Impacts: Understanding the role of carbon, it's absorption into the ocean, it's consequences for ocean ecosystems and its long-term cycling, as well as the relationships between human colonization and its effect on coastal ecosystems, are fundamental societal concerns. Accurate data and the development of reliable models are essential in order to understand the consequences of inaction and the planning of cost-effective mitigation strategies. These planning activities stimulate beneficial exchanges between U.S. scientists and their international counterparts, often resulting in extended subsequent joint research, field activities and student exchanges.

PI要求提供资金，以支付IOC项目官员管理IOC海洋碳计划的费用，即国际海洋碳协调项目（IOCCP）和IOC在海洋酸化和海洋碳封存领域的活动。该提案还支持博士级专业人员协助印度洋气候变化专门委员会的具体活动。海委会项目官员是海委会活动与海委会成员国以及与海洋在全球碳循环（包括固碳和海洋酸化）中的作用有关的联合国公约和其他政府间任务之间的联络人。了解碳的作用，它被吸收到海洋中，它对海洋生态系统及其长期循环的影响，以及人类殖民化与其对沿海生态系统的影响之间的关系，都是基本的社会问题。 准确的数据和建立可靠的模型对于了解不作为的后果和规划具有成本效益的缓解战略至关重要。 这些规划活动促进了美国科学家与国际同行之间的有益交流，往往导致随后的联合研究、实地活动和学生交流。