Workshop and Principal Investigator meeting for Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles: Recent Progress and Future Directions

该奖项支持一个推进生物地球化学循环科学的研讨会。它将把大约70个人聚集在一起，包括拥有年轻和更成熟的科学家的不同学生群体，分享生物地球化学的最新研究成果和观点。研讨会将与美国生态学会年会(2009年8月，新墨西哥州阿尔伯克基)同时举行，届时将有许多其他环境科学家和学生参加。该研讨会将促进生物化学的跨学科性质，并计划以一种开放获取的出版物和在线演示来传播结果。四个科学专题提供了一个令人兴奋的概念组织：在整个地球历史上生物地球化学循环的演变；作为大气层、地圈和生物圈的联结者的生物地球化学循环；人类作为生物地球化学循环驱动力的重要性；以及全球生物地球化学循环和气候变化之间的动态反馈。研讨会将探讨每个领域的最新科学进展，并说明生物地球化学循环如何作为将气候变化与人-自然耦合系统联系起来的反馈机制。特邀演讲者和其他贡献者包括水生、海洋、陆地和大气专业知识的不同代表。

This award supports a symposium to advance the science of biogeochemical cycles. It will bring together ~70 individuals, including a diverse group of students with young and more established scientists, to share recent research results and perspectives in biogeochemistry. The symposium will be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America (Albuquerque, New Mexico, August, 2009), which will allow many other environmental scientists and students to participate. The symposium, and plans for an open access publication and online presentations to disseminate the results, will promote the interdisciplinary nature of biochemistry. Four scientific themes provide an exciting conceptual organization: the evolution of biogeochemical cycles throughout earth history; biogeochemical cycles as couplers of atmosphere, geosphere and biosphere; the significance of humans as drivers of biogeochemical cycles; and the dynamic feedbacks between global biogeochemical cycles and climate change. The symposium will explore recent scientific advances in each of these areas, and illustrate how biogeochemical cycles serve as feedback mechanisms linking climate change with coupled human-natural systems. Invited speakers and other contributing participants include a diverse representation of aquatic, marine, terrestrial, and atmospheric expertise.