CAREER: Impacts of Amazon Deforestation on Earth's Climate, Water, and Ecosystems: The Ebb of the Green Ocean?

职业：亚马逊森林砍伐对地球气候、水和生态系统的影响：绿色海洋的退潮？

• 批准号: 1733571
• 负责人: David Medvigy
• 金额: $ 16.09万
• 依托单位: University of Notre Dame
• 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: 2016-07-01 至 2018-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1733571&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Impacts; Amazon; Deforestation; Earth

The principal goal of this CAREER project is to understand and quantify the impacts of contemporary deforestation and projected future deforestation on climate, hydrology, and terrestrial ecosystems. A multi-scale analysis will be conducted with the following objectives (i) to determine how the size, shape, and organization of deforested areas alter atmospheric dynamics; and (ii) to study how the atmosphere communicates these changes to intact areas of rainforest, other parts of South America and other parts of the world. Climate vegetation feedbacks will also be analyzed. One of the deliverables of this project is an integrated framework for understanding how Amazon deforestation affects local, regional, and global climate, hydrology, and ecosystems. This framework will be extended to analyze deforestation in tropical Asia and Africa.The research focuses on integrating research and education at the Middle School level. The primary goal is to bring improved understanding of Earth's atmosphere, land surface, and human elements of global change into the middle school classroom. A new teacher-in-service unit will be developed and organized under the aegis of QUEST, a professional development program with a 25-year track record of success and administered by Princeton University's Program in Teacher Preparation. Students will gain hands-on experience collecting and analyzing local weather station data, and will also be taught how to access Amazon-relevant data from the Internet. Students will present their work at a local science fair. This research will also support a graduate student. Thus this project has substantial broader impacts.

CAREER项目的主要目标是了解和量化当前森林砍伐和预计未来森林砍伐对气候、水文和陆地生态系统的影响。将进行多尺度分析，目的如下：(i)确定森林砍伐地区的大小、形状和组织如何改变大气动力学；（ii）研究大气如何将这些变化传达给雨林的完整地区、南美洲的其他地区和世界的其他地区。气候植被反馈也将被分析。该项目的成果之一是建立一个综合框架，以了解亚马逊森林砍伐如何影响当地、区域和全球气候、水文和生态系统。这一框架将扩展到分析亚洲和非洲热带地区的森林砍伐。本研究的重点是在中学阶段整合研究与教育。主要目标是将对地球大气、陆地表面和全球变化的人类因素的更好理解带入中学课堂。在QUEST的支持下，将建立和组织一个新的在职教师单位。QUEST是一个由普林斯顿大学教师准备项目管理的专业发展项目，已有25年的成功记录。学生们将获得收集和分析当地气象站数据的实践经验，还将学习如何从互联网上获取与亚马逊相关的数据。学生们将在当地的科学展览会上展示他们的作品。这项研究还将支持一名研究生。因此，该项目具有实质性的广泛影响。