Workshop on Changes in Surface and Ground Water in the Tarim River Basin, Urumqi, Xinjiang

爱达荷大学的Vladimr Aizen博士和兰州寒区干旱地区环境工程研究所的丁永健博士提出了一个关于塔里木河流域地表水和地下水变化的美国-中国研讨会。本次研讨会将于2009年9月在新疆乌鲁木齐市举行，中国说。这次研讨会的主题对NSF来说很重要，这次会议将有10名处于职业生涯早期的美国科学家参加。这里是全球极端气候敏感区，也是世界上面积最大、人口最密集的干旱区、封闭式流域S。这次研讨会恰逢其时，可以促成在解决该流域一些紧迫的用水问题上的合作。该讲习班的目标是制定一项以科学为目标的综合研究议程，以支持参与国努力解决该区域重要的水资源管理问题。本次研修班将由中国国家自然科学基金和美国国家科学基金共同资助。

Dr. Vladimr Aizen of the University of Idaho and Dr. Ding Yongjian of the Lanzhou Cold and Arid Regions Environmental Engineering Research Institute proposed a U.S.-China Workshop on changes in surface and ground water in the Tarim River Basin. This workshop will be held in September, 2009 in Urumqi, Xinjiang Province, China. The topic for this workshop is important for NSF and the conference will include 10 U.S. scientists at an early stage in their careers. This is an extreme climate sensitive area of the globe and is the world?s largest and most densely populated arid-region, closed-drainage, basin. This workshop is opportune and can lead to the cooperation in addressing some of the pressing water use issues in this basin. The goal of this workshop is to produce an integrated research agenda targeted on science that will support the efforts of the participating countries to address the important water resources management issues of this region. This workshop will be supported jointly by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the U.S. National Science Foundation.