Global Water System Project - Open Science Conference

Vorosmarty 0341788 全球水系统项目（GWSP）是全球环境变化计划（GECP）下新的地球系统科学伙伴关系（ESSP）的一部分。该项目的总体使命是阐明人类在改变全球水循环特征及其相关的地球化学循环和生物组成部分方面的作用，并处理这些变化引起的社会反馈。这项工作是跨学科和综合性的，在领域上完全是全球性的。虽然全球水资源战略计划以科学为基础，但它与政策高度相关，因此正在联合这一问题的物理、地球化学、生物和人类方面的专家。该提案寻求国家科学基金会的资助，以支持参加定于2003年10月7日至9日在新罕布什尔州朴茨茅斯举行的第一届全球水系统开放科学会议（OSC）的科学家的旅费和每日津贴。开放科学会议是全球水资源项目整体发展的重要基准，在过去两年中举行了几次重点明确的范围界定会议。OSC代表了这些早期聚会的高潮，但现在汇集了更广泛的社会各界，预计将有大约120名研究人员，政策制定者和机构代表参加。第一届全球水系统项目开放科学会议的具体目标是：（1）判断我们目前从跨学科的角度系统地解决全球变化和水问题的能力，并利用国际地圈生物圈方案、世界水资源研究方案、国际人类发展计划和生物多样性方案的优势;（2）确定我们在全球水系统知识方面的关键差距;（3）批评和丰富全球水系统项目科学框架文件，该文件是该项目不断发展的蓝图;（4）在全球水资源战略计划的范围内设计新的活动和试点项目，特别是将全球环境合作伙伴关系与外部合作联系起来;（5）建立一个全球水资源战略计划社区，即吸收来自各种学科、研究所和区域的科学家、水资源管理人员和决策者参与，（6）在《自然》或《科学》（政策论坛文章）和/或《AGU地球观测系统学报》上发表一篇关于全球水资源计划的短文，总结讲习班的主要成果。 这一请求是为了NSF的贡献，以支持美国或外国参与者。

Vorosmarty0341788 The Global Water System Project (GWSP) is part a new Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) consolidated under the Global Environmental Change Programs (GECPs). The overall mission of the Project is to articulate the role of humans in changing the character of global water cycle, its associated biogeochemical cycles and biological components, and to address the societal feedbacks arising from these changes. The effort is interdisciplinary and synthetic in nature, and fully global in domain. While it is grounded in science, the GWSP is highly policy-relevant and for this reason is uniting experts in the physical, biogeochemical, biological, and human dimensions of this issue. This proposal seeks NSF funding to support travel and per diem expenses for scientists attending the first Global Water System Open Science Conference (OSC), scheduled for 7-9 October 2003 in Portsmouth, NH. The Open Science Conference is an important benchmark in the overall development of the GWSP, following several well-focused scoping meetings over the last two years. The OSC represents a culmination of these earlier gatherings, but now brings together a much wider cross-section of the community, with approximately 120 researchers, policy-makers and agency representatives expected to attend. The specific goals of the First GWSP Open Science Conference are to:(1) Judge our current capacity to systematically address the issues of global change and water from an interdisciplinary perspective and to capitalize on the strengths of IGBP, WCRP, IHDP and DIVERITAS; (2) Identify critical gaps in our knowledge of the global water system;(3) Critique and enrich the GWSP Scientific Framework Document which represents an evolving blueprint for the Project;(4) Design new activities and pilot projects within the context of GWSP, in particular, linking GECP and outside collaborations; (5) Build a GWSP community, i.e. involve scientists and water managers and decision makers from a range of disciplines, institutes and regions, and,(6) Publish a brief article on the GWSP, summarizing the principal Workshop findings in Nature or Science (Policy Forum Piece) and/or AGU Eos Transactions.Partial support already has been approved through NASA's Terrestrial Hydrology Program, NOAA Office of Global Program's GAPP, and IGBP. This request is for an NSF contribution to support either US or foreign participants.