US-Southern Africa Workshop: Synthesis of SAFARI 2000 -- Implications for Local and Regional Science and Policy, Charlottesville, VA, October 2002

0221350 swap该奖项支持15名参加美国-南部非洲研讨会的非洲参与者，该研讨会的主题是“SAFARI 2000的综合——对地方和区域科学与政策的影响”，该研讨会定于2002年10月8日至13日在弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔举行。联合组织者是弗吉尼亚大学环境科学系的Robert Swap教授和南非威特沃特斯兰德大学大气与能源小组的Harold Annegarn教授。总共将有大约150名与会者，其中约三分之一来自美国学术机构，三分之一来自南部非洲各国，其余来自政府、非政府组织和国际组织。这次研讨会将使科学家能够综合和解释来自南部非洲区域科学计划（称为SAFARI 2000）的有价值的信息，并且还将规划区域环境研究的下一阶段。预计这次会议将导致合作，跨学科的研究和教育项目的发展。SAFARI 2000是一个国际科学项目，旨在研究南部非洲陆地、大气和生物地球化学过程在时空尺度上的联系及其对区域和全球环境变化的影响。该项目涉及来自18个不同国家的近300名参与者。本次研讨会将使参与者（其中一些是美国和非洲的学生和初级研究人员）能够回顾关于南部非洲陆地-大气-生物圈相互作用的现状和缺失的信息，并探索跨学科和跨学科研究的新兴领域，这些领域将促进对南部非洲生态系统自然功能的认识。他们还将参与将研究成果转化为与社会相关的格式的过程。将在一份讲习班报告中综合2000年SAFARI的结果，从而向国际全球环境变化界以及地方和区域决策者提供宝贵的新资料。研究结果也将通过专业期刊文章和网站传播。国际科学与工程办公室、大气科学部和行为与认知科学部共同支持这一奖项。

0221350SwapThis award supports 15 African participants in a US-Southern Africa Workshop on "Synthesis of SAFARI 2000 - Implications for Local and Regional Science and Policy," scheduled for October 8-13, 2002, in Charlottesville, Virginia. The co-organizers are Professor Robert Swap, with the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, and Professor Harold Annegarn, with the Atmosphere and Energy Group at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. There will be a total of about 150 participants, approximately one third of whom will come from US academic institutions, one third from various countries in Southern Africa, and the remainder from governmental, nongovernmental and international organizations. This workshop will enable the researchers to synthesize and interpret valuable information from the Southern African Regional Science Initiative (known as SAFARI 2000), and to also plan the next phase of regional environmental research. It is expected that this meeting will lead to the development of collaborative, interdisciplinary research and education projects.SAFARI 2000 was an international science project to investigate the linkages across time and space scales between Southern Africa's terrestrial, atmospheric, and biogeochemical processes, and their impacts on regional and global environmental change. The project involved nearly 300 participants from 18 different countries. This workshop will enable participants, some of whom are US and African students and junior investigators, to review the current state of understanding about and missing information on land-atmosphere-biosphere interactions concerning Southern Africa, and explore emerging areas of cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary research that will advance the knowledge on the natural functioning of Southern Africa's ecosystems. They will also participate in the process for translating the research results into a format that is relevant to society. A synthesis of the results of SAFARI 2000 will be produced in a workshop report, thus providing valuable new information to the international global environmental change community, as well as to local and regional policy makers. Results will also be disseminated through professional journal articles and via a web site.The Office of International Science and Engineering, the Division of Atmospheric Sciences, and the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences jointly support this award.