Conference: 2024 Climate Engineering GRC and GRS

2024年气候工程（CE）戈登研究会议（GRC）将于2024年2月18日至23日在意大利卢卡举行。会议将邀请最近在该领域活跃并引领气候工程研究新方向的高级和初级科学家参加。预计与会的科学家和工程师包括在这一领域做过一些初步工作的研究人员，以及目前正在进行气候工程研究生研究的学生。为青年科学家设计的戈登研究研讨会（GRS）将于2月17日和18日在同一地点举行。这笔拨款是为了部分支持美国的受邀演讲者、讨论领袖和其他人，特别是职业生涯早期的科学家参加GRS和GRC。讨论的领域包括：气候工程方法的工程和技术可行性；推行环保措施对气候的影响；影响的可探测性和解释，包括社会和生态方面的考虑；为研究不同气候情景下不同碳排放应用的结果而设计注入策略和碳排放情景的方法。将要讨论的研究还包括通过观测评估和模式相互比较来提高对地球系统模式的信心。气候工程的研究本质上是跨学科的，依赖于不同群体之间的信息交流和深入讨论，如GRC和GRS所提供的。气候变化继续在世界各地造成大规模影响和极端事件。通过太阳辐射调节（SRM）的气候工程可能是短期内维持全球温度的唯一选择。然而，对不同SRM方法的可行性和影响的理解仍然非常有限，这限制了对其可能的使用做出明智决策的能力。此外，还没有开发出所需的技术。因此，迫切需要加速气候工程研究，理想情况下，将分散的研究领域结合起来，进行更集中的工作。GRC和GRS是讨论前沿CE研究和思想的绝佳场所，也是整合跨学科科学家团队推动研究向前发展的绝佳场所。这个2024气候工程GRC/GRS位于意大利，目的是让来自世界各地的研究人员，特别是来自发展中国家的研究人员更容易参加。GRS将在引入和整合早期职业科学家和学生进入CE研究的关键主题领域方面发挥重要作用。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

The 2024 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Climate Engineering (CE) will be held February 18-23, 2024 in Lucca, Italy. The conference will feature both senior and junior scientists who recently have been active in the field and are leading new research directions in climate engineering research. Scientists and engineers spanning researchers who did some of the first work in this area to students currently basing their graduate research in climate engineering are anticipated to attend. The Gordon Research Seminar (GRS), designed for young scientists, will precede the GRC at the same location on February 17 and 18. This grant is for partial support of US-based invited speakers, discussion leaders and others, in particular early-career scientists, to attend the GRS and GRC. Areas to be discussed include: the engineering and technical feasibility of climate engineering approaches; how implementation of CE would affect climate impacts; detectability and interpretation of impacts, including societal and ecological considerations; and approaches for designing injection strategies and CE scenarios to study the outcomes of different CE applications under different climate scenarios. Research to be discussed also includes improving confidence in Earth system models through evaluation with observations and model intercomparisons. The study of Climate Engineering is by nature interdisciplinary, relying on information exchange and in-depth discussions between different groups, as provided by the GRC and GRS.Climate change is continuing to cause large-scale impacts and extreme events all over the world. Climate Engineering via solar radiation modification (SRM) may be the only option to sustain global temperatures in the near term. However, understanding of the feasibility and impacts of different SRM approaches is still very limited, which is limiting ability to make well-informed decisions about their possible use. Furthermore, the needed technologies have not been developed. There is therefore an urgent need to accelerate climate engineering research, ideally bringing fragmented research areas together towards more focused work. The GRC and GRS are excellent venues to discuss cutting-edge CE research and ideas and to integrate an interdisciplinary group of scientists to move the research forward. This 2024 GRC/GRS for climate engineering is located in Italy, with the purpose of allowing researchers from all over the world, and in particular from developing countries, to more easily attend. The GRS will play an important role in introducing and integrating early career scientists and students into critical topic areas of CE research.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.