Trans-Atlantic Research and Development Interchange on Sustainability Workshop (TARDIS, 2019)

跨大西洋可持续发展研究与发展交流研讨会（TARDIS 2019）的重点是不确定性在管理地球以实现全球可持续发展中的作用。讲习班将有来自美国和欧洲的与会者参加。NSF基金将用于帮助支持美国研究人员的参与。预计奥地利联邦教育、科学和文化部将提供资金，以帮助支持欧洲研究人员的参与。研讨会的参与者将包括来自工程、数学科学、物理学、生态学、经济学和政治学领域的专家。在全球范围内，人类有责任在宜居范围内管理地球。这就要求人类能够：(1)准确地评估地球当前的状况；(2)尽可能准确地预测未来的趋势。因为任何观察总是有不确定性，第一个要求代表了一个艰巨的挑战。因为任何预测方法也有不确定性，第二个要求提出了一个重要的附加问题。研讨会将重点讨论如何在物理（气候）、生物（生物多样性）、经济（创造价值）、能源生产（可再生和/或低影响）、生产（以最小的资源使用满足人类需求）等不同方面对地球进行最佳管理，以实现可持续发展，考虑到测量和知识的不确定性。研讨会的问题是：1。在评估全球可持续性问题观测中的不确定性方面，目前的技术状况如何？2. 需要做哪些改进来减少这些观测中的不确定性？3. 预测时不确定性的最新技术是什么？选择的参加者将代表政府、私营部门和学术机构的均衡组合。将注意在包括经济学、工程学、生态学、政策、政治学和法律在内的各个学科中实现充分的代表性。组织者将大力鼓励代表性不足的群体参与。与会者应在研讨会开始前提交材料供与会者学习。讲习班的成果将是一份综合了所有这些观点的报告，并将在TARDIS公共网站上发布，以供传播。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The focus of the Trans-Atlantic Research and Development Interchange on Sustainability Workshop (TARDIS 2019) is the role of uncertainty in managing the planet for global sustainability. The workshop will involve participants from the United States and Europe. NSF funds will be used to help support the participation of U.S.-based researchers. Funding is anticipated from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture to help support the participation of European researchers. Workshop participants will include experts from the engineering, mathematical sciences, physics, ecology, economics, and political science fields. Planet-wide, humanity has the imperative of managing the Earth within livable limits. This requires that humans be able to: (1) accurately assess the current condition of the Earth, and (2) forecast future trends as accurately as possible. Because any observation always has uncertainty, the first requirement represents a formidable challenge. Because any forecasting methodology also has uncertainty, the second requirement presents a significant additional problem. The workshop will focus on how to optimally manage the Earth for sustainability across diverse aspects including physical (climate), biological (biodiversity), economic (value generation), energy generation (renewable and/or low impact), production (meet human needs with minimal resource use) and others, given uncertainty in measurements and knowledge. The questions for the workshop are: 1. What is state of the art in assessing uncertainty in observations of global sustainability issues? 2. What improvements are needed to minimize uncertainty in these observations? 3. What is state of the art in uncertainty when forecasting? Participants will be chosen to represent a balanced mix of Government, the private sector, and academic institutions. Care will be taken to achieve adequate representation across disciplines, including economics, engineering, ecology, policy, political science, and law. The organizers will strongly encourage participation by underrepresented groups. Participants will be expected to submit material for study by workshop attendees in advance of the workshop. The workshop deliverable will be a report that synthesizes all these perspectives, and it will be posted on the TARDIS public website for dissemination.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.