IRES: Enhancing Global Competence and Research Skills in Climate Change and Urban Ecosystems Through Collaborative Research in China

IRES：通过中国的合作研究提高气候变化和城市生态系统的全球能力和研究技能

• 批准号: 1131281
• 负责人: Zhu Ning
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Southern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1131281&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRES; Enhancing; Global; Competence; Research

The research topic of this IRES program addresses the possibility of designing the urban ecosystem to deal with the negative effects of climate change. The proposed program will send students from Southern University and Louisiana State University to China to conduct collaborative research with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Institute of Applied Ecology and Southern China Botanical Garden, and the Beijing Forestry Institute, The research will be directed at four general topics: Modeling the impact of global warming and urbanization on natural resources; Combined effects of elevated levels of carbon dioxide and ozone on urban forests; Carbon storage and sequestration by urban forests; and Response of soil carbon dynamics to long-term nitrogen deposition in a tropical forest at the urban-rural interface. Each year four undergraduates and four graduate students will participate in the research activities in China. The project focuses on a very topical area of interest (i.e. sustainability), which has growing importance considering the world's current dependence on fossil fuels and the concomitant rise in greenhouse-gas levels. It involves a unique collaboration between the U.S. universities and the institutions in China. The substance of the research efforts should lead to better understanding of complex environmental dynamics in urban settings, which should have application in the U.S. and China as in other parts of the world and promote effective mitigation strategies. Also, the involvement of an HBCU in the IRES program should make a positive contribution to human-resource development in this field.

这个IRES计划的研究课题解决了设计城市生态系统来应对气候变化的负面影响的可能性。该计划将派遣南方大学和路易斯安那州立大学的学生到中国与中国科学院应用生态研究所和中国南方植物园以及北京林业研究所进行合作研究，研究将针对四个一般性主题：全球变暖和城市化对自然资源的影响建模;二氧化碳和臭氧水平升高对城市森林的综合影响;城市森林的碳储存和固存;以及城乡交界处热带森林土壤碳动态对长期氮沉降的响应。每年将有四名本科生和四名研究生参加在中国的研究活动。该项目侧重于一个非常热门的领域（即可持续性），考虑到世界目前对化石燃料的依赖以及随之而来的温室气体水平上升，这一领域的重要性日益增加。它涉及美国大学和中国机构之间的独特合作。研究工作的实质应有助于更好地理解城市环境中复杂的环境动态，这应在美国和中国以及世界其他地区得到应用，并促进有效的缓解战略。此外，HBCU参与IRES方案应能为这一领域的人力资源开发做出积极贡献。