BE/CNH: The Estuarine Research Federation Initiative in Biocomplexity: Facilitation of Research on Estuarine Responses to Climate Change and Variability (Workshop Spring 2002)

该项目将制定一个优先研究议程，以研究气候变化和变异性对河口系统的影响。尽管人们对这些变化的物理影响有了普遍的了解，但对这些生态系统的生物多样性和功能或其生物复杂性的影响却知之甚少。 研究人员特别感兴趣的是河口和沿海生物复杂性使生态系统能够适应人口影响背景下的气候强迫的机制。Boesch博士和Giblin博士计划在河口研究联合会两年一度的会议上举行一次社区城镇会议，并举办一个有河口、社会和气候科学家参加的重点研讨会。这些会议的目的是促进气候变化科学家、社会科学家和从事传统河口学科工作的科学家之间的思想交流和团队建设。 预计该项目将加速河口科学界参与解决脆弱沿海地区气候变化影响的复杂和至关重要的问题。

This project will develop a prioritized research agenda for studies of the effects of climate change and variability on estuarine systems. Although there is a general understanding of the physical effects of such changes, the consequences to the biodiversity and functioning of these ecosystems-or their biocomplexity-are poorly understood. The investigators are particularly interested in the mechanisms by which estuarine and coastal biocomplexity allows ecosystems to adapt to climate forcing in the context of human population impacts. Drs. Boesch and Giblin plan a community town meeting at the biennial conference of the Estuarine Research Federation, and a focused workshop involving estuarine, social and climate scientists. The objective of these meetings is to facilitate idea sharing and team building among climate change scientists, social scientists and scientists working in traditional estuarine disciplines. This project is expected to accelerate the involvement of the estuarine science community in addressing the complex and critically important questions of climate change effects in the fragile coastal zone.