Core Support for the Geographical Sciences Committee at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

该奖项为美国国家科学院、工程院和医学院地理科学委员会（GSC）提供持续的核心支持。 对GSC的持续支持将使该委员会能够通过圆桌会议和研究将学术界、私营部门和政府研究人员以及政策制定者聚集在一起，就地理科学中最具挑战性和最重要的问题达成共识。地理科学委员会将继续提供一个论坛，通过这个论坛，地理学家和相关领域的研究人员可以对当前的科学状况进行评估，并探索未来的研究机会。 GSC将通过促进政府机构与学术，非营利和私营部门环境中的研究人员之间的互动，从而促进广泛的研究人员和组织在国家一级地理科学和政策界面上进行建设性对话的能力，发挥关键的中介作用。 该委员会还将通过其作为国际地理学联合会美国国家委员会的角色，促进地理学家和相关科学家在国际上发挥的作用。美国国家科学院于1997年成立了地理科学委员会，以使地理科学的理论和观点对社会问题产生影响。 地理科学委员会就与地理有关的所有事项向国家科学院提供咨询意见。 GSC通过与其他国家地理组织的联络以及在这些组织之间发起合作研究计划来促进国际合作，并作为美国与国际地理联盟（IGU）的官方联络人，促进和促进美国地理学家参与IGU。 全球指导委员会通过开展特别研究和召开会议开展工作。 GSC将确定进一步研究的主题，使地理科学界能够解决具有社会意义的问题。 GSC还将开展更多的外联活动，例如网络研讨会和研讨会，重点关注使用地理信息系统使城市交通更具可持续性和荒地火灾管理的长期方法等主题。

This award provides continued core support for the Geographical Sciences Committee (GSC) of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Continued support for the GSC will enable this committee to bring academics, private sector and government researchers, and policy makers together through roundtables and studies to reach consensus on the most challenging and significant issues in the geographical sciences. The GSC will continue to provide a forum through which geographers and researchers in related fields may conduct assessments of the current state of the science and explore future research opportunities. The GSC will serve a critical intermediary role by facilitating interactions between government agencies and researchers in academic, nonprofit, and private sector settings, thereby facilitating capabilities for a broad range of researchers and organizations to engage in constructive dialogue at the interface of geographical science and policy at the national level. The committee also will advance the role that geographers and related scientists play internationally through its role as the U.S. national committee for the International Geographical Union.The National Academies established a Geographical Sciences Committee in 1997 to bring the theories and perspectives of the geographical sciences to bear on society's problems. The GSC has provided advice to the National Academies on all matters pertaining to geography. The GSC has fostered international cooperation by serving as a liaison to other national geographical organizations and by initiating collaborative research programs among those organizations, and it has served as the official U.S. liaison to the International Geographical Union (IGU), promoting and facilitating participation of U.S. geographers in the IGU. The GSC undertakes its work through the conduct of special studies and through its meetings. The GSC will identify topics for further study that enable the geographical sciences community to address problems of societal significance. The GSC also will conduct an enhanced range of outreach activities, such as webinars and workshops focusing on topics like the use of geographic information systems to make urban mobility more sustainable and long-term approaches for wildland fire management.