IAI Workshop: Austral Chilean Coast and Inland Sea (ACCIS)

9530193阿特金森对于第一阶段，本提案的PI将促进跨学科，多机构计划的发展，重点是智利南部海岸和内陆海（ACCIS）温带沃茨的生态和社会经济人类健康问题。 该研究所提议成立一个由智利和北美机构的物理和生物海洋学家、渔业科学家、经济学家、社会学家和公共卫生研究人员组成的研究中心。 这些人将有必要的专业知识，比较和对比智利和类似的北美沿海系统。 该研究中心将通过流体力学和生态系统模型开发预测能力，ACCIS研究中心将通过关注具有社会经济和人类健康影响的目标来探索全球变化的人类层面。 该计划在ACCIS的发展是必不可少的，以获得一个巨大的生态和经济重要性，是在人类活动的压力越来越大的区域的知识。 该方案将促进对该地区生态的了解，保护人类健康和生活质量，并通过适当管理、利用和保护沿海资源确保可持续发展。 以下是第二阶段提议的拟议研究方案的研究领域：描述区域气候学，包括大气强迫、海洋变异、控制气候的过程、变异的时间和空间尺度以及半封闭沿海水体与沿海海洋之间的联系;描述生态系统在空间和时间上的变异;描述与有害藻华和海洋生物毒素有关的生态系统问题;描述和了解人类对沿海和内陆海生态系统的影响;描述和了解生态系统和生态系统变化对人类适应和活动的影响;研究有害海洋浮游植物引起的人类疾病的流行病学;描述和研究环境变化与人类健康之间的相互作用;培训专业人员;教育公众。 对于第一阶段，本提案的PI将促进跨学科、多机构计划的发展，重点关注智利南部海岸和内陆海（ACCIS）温带沃茨的生态和社会经济人类健康问题。 该研究所提议成立一个由智利和北美机构的物理和生物海洋学家、渔业科学家、经济学家、社会学家和公共卫生研究人员组成的研究中心。 这些人将有必要的专业知识，比较和对比智利和类似的北美沿海系统。 该研究中心将通过流体力学和生态系统模型开发预测能力，ACCIS研究中心将通过关注具有社会经济和人类健康影响的目标来探索全球变化的人类层面。 自然资源的变化和退化对智利南部海岸和内海的经济、社会结构和人类健康的影响是显而易见的，但尚未得到很好的研究。 这些主题可以通过将北美比较系统的知识应用于ACCIS来进行研究。 ACCIS因其支持多样化渔业的高生物生产力而重要。 将社会经济和流行病学专题的研究纳入其中是相对较新的做法，但却是必不可少的。 ACCIS是一个偏远地区的小社区组织，其中许多是智利最贫穷的社会阶层。 为了应对在气候信息系统协调委员会中理解生态系统可变性与社会经济人类健康影响之间的相互作用的挑战，并实现国际影响评估的组织和科学目标，来自智利和美国的一组不同的专业人员正在合作编写第二阶段提案。 这些国家都是国际气候变化研究所的成员国，该研究所是一项旨在促进美洲科学机构就全球变化问题开展合作研究的倡议。 国家科学基金会是指定的美国政府机构，在IAI内履行我们的美国责任。 ***

9530193 Atkinson For Phase I, the PIs of this proposal will facilitate the development of an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional program focused on ecological and socio-economic human health issues in temperate waters of the Austral Chilean Coast and Inland Sea (ACCIS). The PIs propose to form a research center of physical and biological oceanographers, fisheries scientists, economists, sociologists, and public health researchers from Chilean and North American institutions. These individuals will have the expertise necessary to compare and contrast Chilean and analogous North American coastal systems. The research center will develop predictive capabilities through hydrodynamics and ecosystem models, and the ACCIS Research Center will explore human dimensions of global change by focusing on objectives with socio-economic and human health implications. The development of this program in the ACCIS is essential to gain knowledge of an area of great ecological and economic importance that is under increasing pressure from human activities. The program will facilitate understanding of the ecology of the area, will protect human health and the quality of life, and will ensure sustainable development by appropriate management, use and protection of coastal resources. The following are the areas of study of the proposed research program for a phase II proposal: describe the regional climatology, including atmospheric forcing, oceanic variability, process controlling climate, temporal and spatial scales of variability, and links between semi-enclosed coastal bodies of water and the coastal ocean; describe ecosystem variability, both in space and time; describe the ecosystem problems related to harmful algae blooms and marine biotoxins; describe and understand the influence of human impacts on coastal and inland sea ecosystems; describe and understand the influence of ecosystems and changes in ecosystems on human adaptations and activities; study the epidemiology of human diseases caused by h armful marine phytoplankton; describe and study the interaction between environmental variations and human health; train professionals; and educate the general public. %%% For Phase I the PIs of this proposal will facilitate the development of an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional program focused on ecological and socio-economic human health issues in temperate waters of the Austral Chilean Coast and Inland Sea (ACCIS). The PIs propose to form a research center of physical and biological oceanographers, fisheries scientists, economists, sociologists, and public health researchers from Chilean and North American institutions. These individuals will have the expertise necessary to compare and contrast Chilean and analogous North American coastal systems. The research center will develop predictive capabilities through hydrodynamics and ecosystem models, and the ACCIS Research Center will explore human dimensions of global change by focusing on objectives with socio-economic and human health implications. The results of variation and degradation of natural resources on the economy, social structure, and human health of the Austral Chilean Coast and Inland Sea are evident but have not been well studied. These topics can be investigated by applying the knowledge of comparative systems in North America to the ACCIS. The ACCIS is important for its high biological productivity that supports diverse fisheries. The inclusion of studies on socio-economic and epidemiological topics is relatively new, but essential. The ACCIS is a remote area organized in small communities, many of which correspond to the poorest social segments in Chile. To meet the challenges of understanding the interactions between ecosystem variability and socio-economic-human health impacts in ACCIS, and to met the organizational and scientific goal of the IAI, a diverse group of professionals from Chile and the United States are collaborating in this proposal to prepare a Phase II proposal. These countries are Member S tates of the IAI, an initiative to stimulate cooperative research on global change issues among the scientific institutions of the Americas. The National Science Foundation is the designated U.S. Government agency to carry our the Unites States responsibilities within the IAI. ***