Reducing and Representing Uncertainties in High-Resolution Proxy Climate Data Workshop; Trieste, Italy; June 9-11, 2008

该奖项将支持2008年6月9日至11日在意大利的里雅斯特举行的一个研讨会，探讨如何通过协调评估古气候代用物的不确定性来提高气候重建的质量和价值。讲习班的一个目标是探讨未来收集和整合来自关键地理区域的代理数据的可能的协调战略。为了实现这些目标，研究人员和他的同事们组织了一个国际研讨会，重点关注三个主要要素，包括：1)具有年代际或更好的时间分辨率的气候代理；2)如何量化利用这些代用物进行气候重建的不确定性；3)如何减少这些不确定性。具体而言，该奖项将为美国各机构中大约20名在古气候学和气候研究相关方面具有专业知识的个人提供参与者支持，以参与研究各种气候代理的科学优势和弱点的演讲和讨论。参与者将包括经验丰富的研究人员、新研究人员和学生。通过这种方式，将能够公开和活跃地交换意见。

This award helps support a workshop from June 9-11, 2008 in Trieste, Italy to explore ways to improve the quality and value of climate reconstructions through a coordinated assessment of uncertainties in paleoclimate proxies. One goal of the workshop is to explore a possible coordinated strategy for the future collection and integration of proxy data from key geographic regions. To achieve these goals, the researcher, and his colleagues, have organized an international workshop to focus on three primary elements that include: 1) climate proxies with decadal, or better, temporal resolution; 2) how the uncertainties related to climate reconstruction using these proxies can be quantified; and 3) how these same uncertainties can be reduced.Specifically, the award will provide participant support for approximately twenty individuals at U.S. institutions with expertise in paleoclimatology and related aspects of climate research to participate in presentations and discussions that examine the scientific strengths and weaknesses of various climate proxies. The participants will include seasoned researchers, new investigators, and students. In this manner, an open and lively exchange of views will be enabled.