US-West Africa Workshop: Scientific Data for Decision Making Toward Sustainable Development: Senegal River Basin Case Study; Dakar, Senegal, March 2002

0138247 Uhlir该奖项支持17名与会者(11名来自美国，6名来自西非)，参加定于2002年3月在塞内加尔达喀尔举行的美国-西非可持续发展决策科学数据研讨会：塞内加尔河流流域案例研究。联合组织者是美国国家科学院科学技术数据委员会(CODATA)全国委员会的Paul Uhlir博士和塞内加尔CODATA全国委员会的Abdoulaye Gaye博士。总共将有大约35人参加，他们将来自美国、塞内加尔和其他西非国家的学术界以及政府和非政府组织。多学科讨论将集中在生物多样性和生态系统评估，以及遥感和公共卫生问题。讲习班的目的是：1)确定与塞内加尔河流域有关的所有类型的现有科学和技术数据和信息源；2)审查这些数据和信息源如何被用于关于塞内加尔河流域地区环境和人的研究和决策；3)确定在创建这些数据库和将其用于决策方面遇到的技术、科学、管理和政策障碍，以及如何克服这些障碍。将对塞内加尔河边的迪亚玛大坝和两个研究机构进行实地考察。除极少数例外，与非洲大陆的环境、自然资源和健康有关的科学数据库很难创建和有效管理。然而，建立这些数据库和其他类型的数据库--以及随后利用它们为决策者提供新的信息和知识--对于推动该区域的科学和技术进步及其可持续发展至关重要。这次会议将有助于确定与塞内加尔河系生态和环境有关的地方和外国科学数据库，以及与其人口健康相关的科学数据库。汇编这些数据库上的信息将有助于政策制定者和公民对该区域的活动作出更好的、有科学依据的决策。这次会议还将让美国与会者对非洲科技数据项目有一个独特的看法，联合组织者预计它将促进联系的发展，这将导致未来的合作研究活动。讲习班的成果和有关数据库的信息将通过在线报告提供，并将在2002年9月在南非举行的可持续发展问题首脑会议上介绍。该项目支持两名来自美国的研究生参与，国际科学与工程办公室和生物基础设施部共同支持这一奖项。

0138247UhlirThis award supports 17 participants (11 from the United States and six from West Africa) in a US-West Africa Workshop on Scientific Data for Decision-Making Toward Sustainable Development: Senegal River Basin Case Study, scheduled for March 2002 in Dakar, Senegal. The co-organizers are Dr. Paul Uhlir, with the US National Committee for the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) at the National Academy of Sciences, and Dr. Abdoulaye Gaye, of the Senegal National Committee for CODATA. There will be a total of approximately 35 participants, who will be drawn from academia and governmental and nongovernmental organizations in the United States, Senegal, and other West African countries. Multidisciplinary discussions will focus on biodiversity and ecosystem assessment, as well as remote sensing and public health issues. The purposes of the workshop are to: 1) Identify all types of existing scientific and technical data and information sources relating to the Senegal River basin; 2) Examine how these data and information sources have been used for research and decision making regarding the environment and people in the Senegal River basin area; and 3) Determine the technical, scientific, management, and policy barriers encountered in both the creation of these databases and in their use for decision making, and how they might be overcome. Site visits will be made to the Diama Dam on the Senegal River and to two research institutions. Scientific databases relating to the environment, natural resources, and health on the African continent are, with few exceptions, very difficult to create and manage effectively. Yet the creation of these and other types of databases-and their subsequent use to produce new information and knowledge for decision makers-is essential to advancing scientific and technical progress in that region and to its sustainable development. This meeting will help identify local and foreign scientific databases related to the ecology and environment of the Senegal River system, as well as the related human health of its populations. The compilation of information on these databases will help policymakers and citizens make better, scientifically based decisions about activities in the region. The meeting will also afford the US participants a unique view of an African science and technology data program, and the co-organizers expect it to promote the development of linkages which will lead to future cooperative research activities. Workshop results and information on the databases will be made available through an online report, and will also be presented at the Summit on Sustainability in September 2002 in South Africa. The project supports the participation of two graduate students from the United States.The Office of International Science and Engineering and the Division of Biological Infrastructure jointly support this award.