LMER Coordination

LMER（陆地边缘生态系统研究）项目解决了对陆地边缘生态系统的研究需求，这些生态系统位于大陆地块和沿海海洋的界面。LMER项目是美国全球变化研究项目的一部分，由海洋科学部的生物海洋学项目和生物科学理事会的长期生态系统研究项目共同支持。这些土地边缘生态系统正受到人口增长和土地利用变化的直接和间接影响。未来，它们可能会受到全球气候变化导致的海平面上升的严重影响。LMER项目旨在记录和评估海陆界面的变化。LMER计划目前由五个大型多研究者、跨学科的研究项目组成，强调实验研究、各种类型的模型和比较生态系统方法。该项目旨在建立和维持一个由海洋生物实验室的约翰·霍比（John Hobbie）担任主席的LMER协调办公室和委员会，以执行大型跨学科项目所需的许多功能。协调办公室的各种任务包括：规划和协调指导委员会和LMER科学家的会议，以促进LMER研究项目内的活动，综合和相互比较，协调与其他沿海项目以及国家和国际层面的其他全球变化研究项目的活动。

The LMER (Land Margin Ecosystems Research) program addresses the need for research on land-margin ecosystems, those at the interface of continental land masses and coastal oceans. The LMER program is part of the U.S. Global Change Research program supported jointly by the Biological Oceanography Program of the Division of Ocean Sciences and the Long Term Ecosystems Studies Program of the Biological Sciences Directorate. These land margin ecosystems are being affected by direct and indirect results of human population growth, and land use changes. In the future, they may be severely affected by rising sea levels as a result of global climate change. The LMER program is designed to document and evaluate the changes going on at this land sea interface. The LMER program at present is made up of five large multi-investigator, interdisciplinary research projects that emphasize experimental studies, various types of models, and a comparative ecosystems approach. This project seeks to establish and maintain an LMER coordinating office and committee headed by John Hobbie of the Marine Biological Laboratory as chair in order to carry out the many functions necessary for a large interdisciplinary program. The various tasks of the coordination office include: the planning and coordinating meetings for the Steering committee and the LMER scientists to facilitate activities, synthses and intercomparisons within the LMER research projects and coordinating activities with other coastal oriented programs as well as other global change research programs on the national and international level.