Fifth International Symposium on Inland Saline Lakes (Bolivia, March 1991)

该奖项支持将于1991年3月在玻利维亚举行的关于盐湖生态系统的国际研讨会。美国的组织者是圣地亚哥州立大学的斯图尔特·赫尔伯特。他在玻利维亚的同行是环境保护联盟的卡洛斯·阿尔斯。此外，还有一个由另外三名科学家组成的组织委员会，其中三名来自玻利维亚，一名来自法国。参与者包括来自不同学科的科学家，从卤水地球化学到甲壳类系统学再到鸟类生态学。他们来自24个不同的国家；19个来自拉丁美洲，32个来自北美，22个来自欧洲，4个来自非洲，4个来自中东，5个来自俄罗斯，6个来自澳大利亚，7个来自亚洲。研讨会将包括来稿和邀请的讲座、小组讨论、盐湖实地考察，以及会后为期六天的短途旅行，以观赏盐湖和高原(高地)的一般地理。这是第一次在拉丁美洲举办此类研讨会，因此是拉丁美洲科学家与美国和世界科学家在这一领域进行交流的重要机会。通过这种方式，这项活动实现了发展中国家科学计划的目标。

This award supports an international workshop on salt lake ecosystems to be held in Bolivia in March, 1991. The U.S. organizer is Stuart Hurlbert of San Diego State University. His counterpart in Bolivia is Carlos Arce of the League for the Defense of the Environment. In addition there is an organizing committee consisting of three other scientists, three from Bolivia and one from France. The participants include scientists from a wide spectrum of disciplines ranging from brine geochemistry to crustacean systematics to avian ecology. They represent 24 different countries; 19 arefrom Latin America, 32 from North America, 22 from Europe,4 from Africa, 4 from the Mideast, 5 from Russia, 6 from Australia and 7 from Asia. The workshop will include contributed and invited talks, panel discussions, field trips to saline lakes and a six-day excursion after the meeting to view saline lakes and the general geography of the altiplano (high plane). This is the first of these symposia to be held in Latin America and therefore represents an important opportunity for Latin American scientists to interact with U.S. and world scientists in this field. In this way, this activity fulfills the goals of the Science in Developing Countries program.