New England Regional Workshop on Climate Change Impact

随着科学研究提高了对气候和全球环境其他方面变化的复杂方式的认识，人们越来越关注这些变化对人类和生态系统的影响。 为了应对这些变化，美国全球变化研究计划（USGCRP）和白宫科技政策办公室（OSTP）协调规划了一系列研讨会，重点关注全球气候变化对区域尺度的影响。 计划在1997年春季和夏季举办这一系列中的七个讲习班;预期在下一年将举办另外十几个区域讲习班，同时沿着定于1997年11月举办的一个国家讲习班。 该奖项为新罕布什尔州大学举办一个研讨会提供支持，该研讨会将重点关注新英格兰全球气候变化的区域影响。 讲习班将于1997年9月3日至5日在联合国总部举行。 来自康涅狄格州、缅因州、马萨诸塞州、新罕布什尔州、罗得岛、佛蒙特州和纽约北部的大约200人预计将参加这次研讨会。 研讨会将包括一套交替的形式，包括全体会议、小组发言、分组讨论和公开讨论会。 重点关注的主题包括全球气候变化对森林、物种多样性、沿海湿地、水生生态系统、沿海资源、水资源、农业、人类健康、能源和运输的影响。 讲习班组织者将在讲习班结束后不久编写并散发一份书面报告。 这次研讨会将提供宝贵的新的见解，全球变化对不同的部门和活动在新英格兰各州的影响。 由于它是作为一套协调的区域讲习班的一部分进行的，其结果也将有助于美国评估环境变化可能产生的影响的比较框架。 除了其科学价值，新英格兰讲习班将使来自许多不同领域的当地居民参与讨论，这将促进关于这一重要主题的公共教育和宣传。

As scientific research has improved understandings of the complex ways that climate and other facets of the global environment are changing, increased attention has focused on the impacts of those changes on people and ecosystems. In response to these changes, the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) have coordinated planning for a series of workshops that will focus on the impacts of global climate change on regional scales. Seven workshops in this series are planned for the spring and summer of 1997; another dozen regional workshops are expected to be held in the following year along with a national workshop, which is scheduled for November 1997. This award provides support to the University of New Hampshire for the conduct of a workshop that will focus on the regional impacts of global climate change in New England. The workshop will be conducted on the UNH campus on 3-5 September 1997. About two hundred people from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and upstate New York are expected to attend the workshop. The workshop will consist of a set of alternating formats, including plenary sessions, panel presentations, break-out discussions, and open-discussion sessions. Topics on which attention will be focused include the impacts of global climate change on forests, species diversity, coastal wetlands, aquatic ecosystems, coastal resources, water resources, agriculture, human health, energy, and transportation. A written report will be prepared and disseminated by the workshop organizers soon after the conclusion of the workshop. This workshop will provide valuable new insights into the impacts of global change on a diverse set of sectors and activities in the New England states. Because it is being conducted as part of a coordinated set of regional workshops, its outcomes will also be useful in a comparative framework as the U.S. assesses likely impacts of environmental change. In addition to its scientific value, the New England workshop will engage local residents from many different fields into discussions that will facilitate public education and outreach about this important topic.