Trans-Atlantic Research and Development Interchange on Sustainability Workshop (TARDIS, 2019)

跨大西洋研究与发展交流可持续性研讨会（TARDIS 2019）的重点是不确定性在管理地球以实现全球可持续性方面的作用。研讨会将有来自美国和欧洲的与会者参加。NSF的资金将用于帮助支持美国的参与-基于研究者。预计奥地利联邦教育、科学和文化部将提供资金，以帮助支持欧洲研究人员的参与。研讨会的参与者将包括来自工程、数学科学、物理学、生态学、经济学和政治学领域的专家。在全球范围内，人类有必要在宜居范围内管理地球。这就要求人类能够：（1）准确地评估地球的现状，（2）尽可能准确地预测未来的趋势。因为任何观察总是有不确定性，第一个要求是一个巨大的挑战。由于任何预测方法也有不确定性，第二个要求提出了一个重要的额外问题。鉴于测量和知识方面的不确定性，讲习班将侧重于如何最佳地管理地球，以实现各个方面的可持续性，包括物理（气候）、生物（生物多样性）、经济（价值创造）、能源生产（可再生和/或低影响）、生产（以最少的资源使用满足人类需求）和其他方面。研讨会的问题是：1。在评估全球可持续性问题观测中的不确定性方面，目前的技术水平如何？2.需要做哪些改进以尽量减少这些观测中的不确定性？3.在预测时，不确定性的最新发展是什么？与会者将代表政府、私营部门和学术机构的均衡组合。将注意实现跨学科的充分代表性，包括经济学，工程学，生态学，政策，政治学和法律。组织者将大力鼓励代表性不足的群体参加。与会者应在研讨会之前提交材料供研讨会与会者研究。研讨会的成果将是一份综合所有这些观点的报告，并将发布在TARDIS公共网站上以供传播。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

The focus of the Trans-Atlantic Research and Development Interchange on Sustainability Workshop (TARDIS 2019) is the role of uncertainty in managing the planet for global sustainability. The workshop will involve participants from the United States and Europe. NSF funds will be used to help support the participation of U.S.-based researchers. Funding is anticipated from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture to help support the participation of European researchers. Workshop participants will include experts from the engineering, mathematical sciences, physics, ecology, economics, and political science fields. Planet-wide, humanity has the imperative of managing the Earth within livable limits. This requires that humans be able to: (1) accurately assess the current condition of the Earth, and (2) forecast future trends as accurately as possible. Because any observation always has uncertainty, the first requirement represents a formidable challenge. Because any forecasting methodology also has uncertainty, the second requirement presents a significant additional problem. The workshop will focus on how to optimally manage the Earth for sustainability across diverse aspects including physical (climate), biological (biodiversity), economic (value generation), energy generation (renewable and/or low impact), production (meet human needs with minimal resource use) and others, given uncertainty in measurements and knowledge. The questions for the workshop are: 1. What is state of the art in assessing uncertainty in observations of global sustainability issues? 2. What improvements are needed to minimize uncertainty in these observations? 3. What is state of the art in uncertainty when forecasting? Participants will be chosen to represent a balanced mix of Government, the private sector, and academic institutions. Care will be taken to achieve adequate representation across disciplines, including economics, engineering, ecology, policy, political science, and law. The organizers will strongly encourage participation by underrepresented groups. Participants will be expected to submit material for study by workshop attendees in advance of the workshop. The workshop deliverable will be a report that synthesizes all these perspectives, and it will be posted on the TARDIS public website for dissemination.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.