A Cooperative Network of Caribbean Marine Research Institutions: Environmental Monitoring Methods Workshop; Jamaica, December 1990

该奖项将支持大约25名美国和加勒比地区的 科学家，代表约20个区域海洋研究所， 参加了由约翰·C.奥格登 南佛罗里达大学及其合作者。 研讨会， 是次演习将于香港特别行政区政府 牙买加西印度群岛大学，将讨论和进行 一套标准化物理（温度， 盐度、光衰减和悬浮固体）和生物 （群落结构和主要物种的增长率） 的部分。 这一监测方案将与教科文组织共同实施 作为加勒比沿海地区可持续发展战略的核心 海洋生产力（CARICOMP）计划。 讲习班将由加勒比海洋事务专家组领导， 并将以一份方法手册草案为指导， 自CARICOMP计划在教科文组织/NSF启动以来，教科文组织提供了支持。 1985年在牙买加举办了讲习班。 一个关键因素将是 建立符合适当的数据管理协议 统计程序。 CARICOMP计划是针对一个 通过比较，了解沿海生态系统的长期变化 加勒比地理范围内的生态系统研究， 邻近的沃茨。 所要求的支持将使执行 在越来越多的人相信我们是 进入了一个前所未有的海洋生态系统变化的时代， 人类影响和全球气候变化。

This award will support a group of approximately 25 U.S. and Caribbean scientists, representing around 20 regional marine research institu- tions, to participate in a workshop organized by Prof. John C. Ogden of the University of South Florida and collaborators. The workshop, which is to take place at the Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory of the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, will discuss and conduct fields trials for a suite of standardized physical (temperature, salinity, light attenuation, and suspended solids) and biological (community structure and growth rate of principal species) measure- ments. This monitoring program will be implemented with UNESCO funding following the workshop as the core of the Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity (CARICOMP) program. The Workshop will be led by a staff of experts in Caribbean marine ecosystems and will be guided by a draft Methods Manual produced with UNESCO support since the CARICOMP program was started at a UNESCO/NSF supported workshop in Jamaica in 1985. A key element will be the establishment of data management protocols consistent with proper statistical procedures. The CARICOMP program is directed at an understanding of long-term coastal ecosystem change through comparative ecosystem studies at the geographic scale of the Caribbean and adjacent waters. The requested support will allow the implementation of the program at a time of increasing conviction that we are entering an unprecedented era of marine ecosystem change caused by human impact and global climate change.