Program to Expand the Scientific Capacity in the Americas (PESCA)

拟议的PESCA计划将扩大现有IAI项目和计划的范围：初始科学计划（ISP）和合作研究网络（CRN）。 PESCA将使目前尚未充分参与IAI方案/项目活动的国家参与进来，让这些国家的参与科学家作为项目的正式合作伙伴，作为CoPI参与。（授予古巴的合同须待外国资产管制处颁发许可证）：Ricardo Herrera-Peraza，古巴：“全球变化对岛屿和大陆生态系统植被和土壤微生物群多样性的影响“，牙买加西印度群岛大学莫纳校区Michael Taylor：“当海洋汇合时：研究热带大西洋和太平洋同时发生的海温异常对加勒比海降雨的影响“，秘鲁皮乌拉大学的Roquelo Rodriguez、Antonio Mabres、罗纳德Woodman：“厄尔尼诺和南美热带其他气候变化的树木年代学研究“，安东尼陈，西印度群岛大学莫纳校区，牙买加“分析和了解加勒比群岛的气候变率“Pedro西斯内罗斯，A. Amarakoon，ESPOL，Ecuador /UWI-Mona，Jamaica：“Predicting ENSO effects on sugar cane yields using a weather-generator and mechanistic crop modeling“Gabriela Eguren，Claudia Rodriguez，Beatriz Costa，Alice Altesor，Universidad de la Republicica，Uruguay：“Impact of forestry on Urugayan grasslands：changes in landuse patterns and ecosystem functioning“Lelys Bravo，Bruno Sanso，Universidad Simon Bolivar，Venezuela：“南美洲气候多变性和变化研究的缩小尺度活动及其应用“，智利拉丁美洲和加勒比科学研究所，Alejandro Leon：“智利灾害清单、厄尔尼诺/南方涛动和与厄尔尼诺/南方涛动无关的灾害：智利的一个红色项目”，古巴气象研究所，Juan卡洛斯Antuna：“中美洲和南美洲平流层和对流层上部气溶胶的特性“，Oscar Betancourt、Marc Lucotte、Marc Roulet，厄瓜多尔/加拿大：“安第斯亚马逊河流域的汞- MAARC项目”古巴气象研究所Ida Mitrani：“加勒比地区局部和区域大气环流的高分辨率数值模拟”

The proposed PESCA program will amplify the reach of existing IAI projects and programs: the Initial Science Program (ISP) and the Collaborative Research Network (CRN). PESCA will involve countries now not adequately involved in IAI program/project activities by involving participating scientists from these countries as full partners in the projects, participating as CoPIs.As determined by the IAI's merit based peer review system, the following potential awardees have been identified (awards to Cuba are subject to pending OFAC licensing):Ricardo Herrera-Peraza, Cuba: "The effects of global change on the diversity of vegetation and edaphic microbiota on insular and continental ecosystems"Michael Taylor, University of the West Indies-Mona Campus, Jamaica: "When oceans conspire: Examining the effect of concurrent SST Anomalies in the Tropical Atlantic and Pacific on Caribbean Rainfall"Rodolpho Rodriguez, Antonio Mabres, Ronald Woodman, Universidad de Piura, Peru: "Dendrochronological Studies of El Nino and other climatological variations of the South American Tropical Zone"Antony Chen, University of the West Indies-Mona Campus, Jamaica "Analyzing and understanding climate variability in the Caribbean Islands"Pedro Cisneros, A. Amarakoon, ESPOL, Ecuador /UWI-Mona, Jamaica: "Predicting ENSO effects on sugar cane yields using a weather-generator and mechanistic crop modeling"Gabriela Eguren, Claudia Rodriguez, Beatriz Costa, Alice Altesor, Universidad de la Republica,Uruguay: "Impact of forestry on Uruguayan grasslands: changes in landuse patterns and ecosystem functioning"Lelys Bravo, Bruno Sanso, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela: "Downscaling activities and their applications of studies of climate variability and change in South America"Alejandro Leon,FLACSO, Chile: "An inventory of Disasters in Chile, ENSO and non-ENSO related: A La Red-Chile Project"Juan Carlos Antuna, Instituto de Meteorologia, Cuba: "Characterization of stratospheric and upper tropospheric aerosols over Central and South America"Oscar Betancourt, Marc Lucotte, Marc Roulet, Ecuador / Canada: "Mercury in Andean Amazon river catchments - MAARC Project "Ida Mitrani, Instituto de Meteorologia, Cuba: "High resolution numerical modeling of local and regional atmospheric circulation in the Caribbean"