Planning Meeting for a US-Italy Coastal Antarctic Time Series

这项国际规划赠款将使来自美国的研究人员能够与意大利海洋学家合作，在南极洲Terra Nova Bay的意大利基地规划和开发长期时间序列计划。长期目标包括观察气候变化对罗斯海西部碳和营养物质生物地球化学循环的影响，罗斯海西部是南极底水形成的重要区域。计划拨款的目标包括：(1)确定美国和意大利在罗斯海的知识现状；(2)确定未来合作中最重要的科学问题的优先次序；(3)制定合作活动的短期和长期资金计划；以及(4)规划两国的后勤行动。拟议中的罗斯海西部时间序列计划将作为环境哨兵和自然实验室，以了解气候变化的影响。这次计划访问以及未来的国际合作，将促进南极洲下一代科学家的发展。意大利博士后和研究生以及美国初级研究人员将参加规划会议。对罗斯海西部的长期研究将使新的调查人员能够参与规划和测试关于气候变化对南极沿海生态系统的影响的假设的所有方面。

This international planning grant will enable researchers from the USA to collaborate with Italian oceanographers in planning and developing a long term time series program at the Italian Base in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica. The long term goal involves observing the effects of climate change on the biogeochemical cycling of carbon and nutrients in the western Ross Sea, an important region of Antarctic Bottom Water formation. The goals of the planning grant include: (1) determining the current state of US-Italian knowledge in the Ross Sea; (2) prioritizing the most important scientific issues to be addressed in future collaborations; (3) developing a plan for both short term and long term funding of collaborative activities; and (4) planning logistical operations by both nations. The proposed western Ross Sea time series program will serve as both an environmental sentinel and a natural laboratory to understand the impacts of climate change.The planning visit, and future international collaborations, will facilitate the development of the next generation of scientists in Antarctica. Italian post-doctoral and graduate students, as well as junior US researchers, will participate in the planning meeting. A long term study of the western Ross Sea will enable new investigators to be involved in all aspects of planning and testing hypotheses regarding the impacts of climate change on a coastal Antarctic ecosystem.