2020 Climate Engineering GRC and GRS: Newry, ME - Summer 2020

2020 年气候工程 GRC 和 GRS：缅因州纽里 - 2020 年夏季

• 批准号: 2011077
• 负责人: Douglas MacMartin
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Gordon Research Conferences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2011077&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 2020; Climate; Engineering; GRC; GRS

This grant is for support of the 2020 Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar in Climate Engineering, to be held from June 27 to July 3, 2020 at Sunday River in Newry, ME. The funds will partially cover registration and travel costs for US-based invited speakers and discussion leaders, and for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and other early career investigators. Climate Engineering (CE), also known as Solar Geoengineering, involves reflecting some sunlight back to space in order to cool the climate, with the intent of reducing the impacts of climate change. Potential approaches include stratospheric aerosol interventions (SAI), marine cloud brightening (MCB), and cirrus cloud thinning (CCT). However, not enough is known about these ideas to support informed future societal decisions. While reducing greenhouse gas emissions is an essential part of any response to climate change, it is very likely too late for this to be sufficient: there is significant risk of increasingly severe climate change impacts even with rapid global decarbonization. Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) needs to be part of a long-term solution, but it is uncertain that these largely untested ideas can be developed and scaled up quickly enough. Given this context, a limited deployment of CE, in addition to emission-reductions and CDR, may be the only available pathway to limit many climate impacts. The science of CE has overlaps with other aspects of climate science, but there are a number of unique issues, starting from the fact that it involves an engineering "design" aspect: different choices will lead to different impacts, leading to questions of how best to make these choices. Further, for either stratospheric aerosols or cloud modification applications, the potentially large perturbations can result in unique science requirements. The urgency of societal need, combined with the unique science and engineering needs, led to the formation of the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) series on Climate Engineering, with the first meeting in 2017. The 2020 GRC focus will be on both processes and impacts, including an engineering perspective and informed by the societal context. New in 2020 is a Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) that provides opportunities for early-career researchers.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.

这笔赠款是为支持2020年戈登研究会议和戈登研究研讨会在气候工程，将于2020年6月27日至7月3日在纽里星期日河举行，ME.资金将部分支付注册和旅行费用为美国的特邀演讲者和讨论领导人，并为研究生，博士后研究员和其他早期职业调查人员。 气候工程（CE），也被称为太阳能地球工程，涉及将一些阳光反射回太空，以冷却气候，减少气候变化的影响。潜在的方法包括平流层气溶胶干预（SAI），海洋云增亮（MCB）和卷云变薄（CCT）。然而，对这些想法的了解还不够，无法支持未来的明智社会决策。虽然减少温室气体排放是应对气候变化的重要组成部分，但这很可能为时已晚：即使全球快速脱碳，气候变化影响也有日益严重的重大风险。二氧化碳去除（CDR）需要成为长期解决方案的一部分，但目前还不确定这些基本上未经测试的想法是否能够迅速发展和扩大规模。在这种情况下，除了减排和CDR之外，有限的CE部署可能是限制许多气候影响的唯一可用途径。CE科学与气候科学的其他方面有重叠，但有一些独特的问题，从它涉及工程“设计”方面的事实开始：不同的选择将导致不同的影响，导致如何最好地做出这些选择的问题。此外，对于平流层气溶胶或云改造应用，潜在的大扰动可能导致独特的科学要求。社会需求的紧迫性，加上独特的科学和工程需求，导致了戈登研究会议（GRC）气候工程系列的形成，第一次会议于2017年举行。2020年GRC的重点将放在过程和影响上，包括工程角度和社会背景。2020年新增的是戈登研究研讨会（GRS），为早期职业研究人员提供机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。