Planning for the 2003 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community

国际全球变化的人的方面（HDGC）研究界的公开会议每隔一年举行一次。 这些会议是社会科学家和来自许多相关领域和许多不同国家的科学家聚集在一起的场所，展示和听取最新的研究成果，交流信息，并为未来的合作活动制定计划。 第五次公开会议暂定于2003年10月在加拿大魁北克蒙特利尔举行。 该奖项将用于支助国际科学规划委员会（科学规划委员会）定于2002年10月在纽约附近的哥伦比亚大学拉蒙多尔蒂地球观测站举行的一次规划会议。 这次会议将为ISPC的十多名成员提供一个完成各种任务的机会，包括确定公开会议的主要主题，确定邀请的主旨发言人，确定公开会议的临时议程，以及编写邀请HDGC科学家参加公开会议的书面公告。公开会议每两年举行一次，事实证明，HDGC和来自许多不同国家的相关研究人员有非常宝贵的机会见面，分享研究成果，确定未来需要注意的问题，并发展合作关系。 公开会议的有效性取决于事先周密的规划。 该奖项将促进这一规划，从而增加2003年公开会议成为美国和许多其他国家HDGC科学家的宝贵论坛的可能性。

Open meetings of the International Human Dimensions of Global Change (HDGC) research community are held every other year. These meetings are a setting where social scientists and scientists from many related fields and from many different nations gather to present and hear the latest research results, to exchange information, and to develop plans for future collaborative activities. The fifth Open Meeting is tentatively scheduled to be held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in October 2003. This award will support a planning meeting of the International Science Planning Committee (ISPC) to be held at Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory near New York in October 2002. That meeting will provide more than a dozen members of the ISPC with the opportunity to complete a diverse set of tasks, including identification of major themes for the open meeting, identifying keynote speakers to be invited, establishing a tentative agenda for the open meeting, and developing written announcements inviting HDGC scientists to the open meeting.The open meetings, which have been held every other year, have proven to be very valuable opportunities for HDGC and related researchers from many different nations to meet, share research results, identify future problems requiring attention, and develop collaborative relationships. The efficacy of the open meetings depends of careful advanced planning. This award will facilitate that planning, thereby increasing the likelihood that the 2003 open meeting will be a valuable forum for HDGC scientists from the U.S. and many other nations.