The U.S. GLOBEC Office: The Coordinating Office of the Scientific Steering Committee

美国GLOBec(全球海洋生态系统--美国全球变化计划的一部分)是一项科学努力，旨在评估全球气候变化以及随之而来的海洋物理运输的变化对海洋动物生产的可持续性的影响。该项目试图了解物理过程如何影响海洋中个体动物的成功--它们的摄食、生长、繁殖和生存。然后，可以使用全球气候模型将全球变化与区域海洋物理的变化联系起来，并随后将区域物理的变化与影响单个生物体的空间尺度上的变化联系起来。将强调对浮游动物生活期的影响，因为许多海洋动物至少经历了一个浮游生物生活期，而且浮游生物大小类别在很大程度上受制于其流体环境的物理性质。该项目旨在维持美国全球经济一体化协调办公室，以履行如此大型跨学科计划所需的许多职能。这样一个办公室的任务可分为四大类。第一，与科学指导委员会的努力--主要是会议--有关的规划和协调活动。第二，对SSC的后勤和保障的具体情况。第三，与美国(和海外)庞大而多样的GLOBEC社区的交流--包括物理和生物海洋学家以及渔业专家。最后，与最近成立的国际方案进行新的努力、规划和协调。托马斯·M·鲍威尔教授将于1992年5月1日前担任美国GLOBEC SSC主席。协调办公室将搬到它的新家，在鲍威尔的机构，在加州大学戴维斯分校环境研究所。

U.S. GLOBec (GLOBal Ocean ECosystem--a part of the U.S. global change program) is a scientific effort designed to evaluate the consequences of global climate change, and the concomitant changes in physical transports in the sea, on the sustainability of animal production in the ocean. The program seeks to understand how physical processes influence the success of individual animals in the sea--their feeding, growth, reproduction, and survivorship. Models of global climate can then be used to relate global change to changes in regional ocean physics and, subsequently, changes in regional physics to modifications at the spatial scales that influence individual organisms. Effects on zooplankton life stages will be emphasized because so many marine animals undergo at least one planktonic life stage and because the planktonic size classes are most at the mercy of the physics of their fluid environment. This project seeks to maintain a U.S. GLOBEC Coordinating Office to carry out the many functions necessary for such a large inter- disciplinary program. The tasks of such an office fall into four broad categories. First, planning and coordination activities associated with the efforts--largely meetings--of the Scientific Steering Committee (SSC). Second, specifics of logistics and support for the SSC. Third, communications with the large and diverse GLOBEC community in the U.S. (and overseas)--involving both physical and biological oceanographers, as well as fisheries specialists. Finally, a new endeavor, planning and coordination with the recently-formed international program. Professor Thomas M. Powell will assume the chairmanship of the U.S. GLOBEC SSC before 1 May 1992. The Coordinating Office will move to its new home, at Powell's institution, in the Division of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Davis.