Workshop Proposal: Long-term trends in nitrogen cycles in ecosystems: Field monitoring and global comparisons

研讨会提案：生态系统中氮循环的长期趋势：现场监测和全球比较

• 批准号: 1642303
• 负责人: Peter Groffman
• 金额: $ 2.75万
• 依托单位: Research Foundation CUNY - Advanced Science Research Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1642303&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Proposal; Long; term; trends

This award supports the travel of five faculty and four students from the United States to participate in an international training course on long-term trends in nitrogen cycles in ecosystems at Hokkaido University in Japan, June 16-24, 2016. The course includes field monitoring at the nearby Uryu Experimental Forest, as well as comparisons of nitrogen cycling patterns in ecosystems from around the world. The training is designed to expose young researchers (PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and early career faculty) to state-of-the-art approaches for the analysis of nitrogen cycling in ecosystems, with a focus on key ecosystem processes and implications for environmental pollution. The course structure includes lectures, field classes, data collection and analyses, and group discussions. Participants will learn about standard research protocols, emerging methods, recent findings, and data analytical tools and will gain experience working with international colleagues. Because this workshop is primarily the result of a new collaboration between U.S. and Japanese scholars and supports ongoing research in ecosystem science and long-term ecological research, co-funding is provided by the NSF International Science and Engineering Global Venture Fund.Anthropogenically derived (reactive) nitrogen plays a central role in global environmental change, including climate change, biodiversity loss, air pollution, greenhouse gas emission, water pollution, as well as food production and human health. Current understanding of the biogeochemical processes that govern the nitrogen cycle in coupled human-ecological systems around the globe is drawn largely from long-term ecological monitoring and experimental studies. Given the global nature of the nitrogen cycle challenges, integrated international and long-term collaborative studies are essential to reduce uncertainties, promote further understanding, and design solutions to environmental problems associated with nitrogen cycle in ecosystems across the globe. This workshop emerges from new efforts focused on global patterns in nitrogen cycling within the International Long-Term Ecological Research (ILTER) network, led by Prof. Hideki Shibata at Hokkaido University, the organizer of this workshop.

该奖项支持来自美国的五名教师和四名学生参加2016年6月16日至24日在日本北海道大学举办的关于生态系统氮循环长期趋势的国际培训课程。该课程包括在附近的Uryu实验森林进行实地监测，以及比较世界各地生态系统中的氮循环模式。该培训旨在让年轻的研究人员（博士生，博士后研究人员和早期职业教师）接触最先进的方法，用于分析生态系统中的氮循环，重点关注关键的生态系统过程和对环境污染的影响。课程结构包括讲座，实地课程，数据收集和分析，以及小组讨论。参与者将了解标准研究方案，新兴方法，最新发现和数据分析工具，并将获得与国际同事合作的经验。由于该研讨会主要是美国和日本学者之间新合作的结果，并支持正在进行的生态系统科学研究和长期生态研究，因此由NSF国际科学与工程全球风险基金提供共同资助。（活性）氮在全球环境变化中起着核心作用，包括气候变化，生物多样性丧失，空气污染，温室气体排放、水污染以及粮食生产和人类健康。目前对控制地球仪周围耦合的人类-生态系统中氮循环的地球化学过程的认识主要来自长期的生态监测和实验研究。考虑到氮循环挑战的全球性，综合性的国际和长期合作研究对于减少不确定性、促进进一步了解和设计解决方案以解决与地球仪生态系统中氮循环相关的环境问题至关重要。本次研讨会是在北海道大学的柴田教授领导的国际长期生态研究网络范围内，针对氮循环的全球模式所作的新努力的结果。