Identifying New Community-Driven Science Themes for National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Support of Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change (P2C2): A Workshop

美国国家科学院、工程院和医学院将组织一次研讨会，旨在确定未来潜在的古气候研究方向，这将有助于提高对地球气候系统当前和未来潜在变化的理解。利用通过在线问卷收集到的广泛的社区意见，研讨会讨论将解决目前对过去气候变率和过程的理解上的差距，以及可以实际采取的新的研究战略和技术能力，以有效地填补这些知识差距。为了准备更新气候变化古视角（P2C2）年度竞赛的研究主题和目标，该项目计划通过在线问卷调查和研讨会吸引广大科学界参与，以确定潜在的优先研究领域，并在可能的后续征集中提出建议。从一开始就与科学界接触将有助于确定对该领域有很大推动潜力的主题，这些主题对NSF来说是可行的，可以得到支持，也可以得到科学界的解决。该项目寻求广泛的社区投入，努力实现地域代表性、机构隶属关系、职业阶段、性别和种族的多样性。此外，确定古气候的未来研究主题具有固有的更广泛的影响，与古气候研究的科学和社会经济应用以及它们与水管理、生物多样性、基础设施适应等问题的决策相关。其他更广泛的影响包括研讨会和问卷活动的报告，以纸质（数量有限）和免费的PDF格式提供，将酌情分发给国家科学基金会和其他感兴趣的利益相关者。研讨会的报告将不受限制地向公众提供，并将发布在国家科学院出版社的网站上。国家科学院将开展广泛的外展和参与，以确保研究结果得到广泛传播。这种外联可包括向各机构提供简报、向国会办公室提供简报、继续促进与更广泛社区的在线讨论论坛、简报和网络研讨会、相关会议的演讲和会议，以及其他相关活动。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 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize a workshop that seeks to identify potential future paleoclimate research directions that will help advance understanding of current and potential future change in the Earth’s climate system. Drawing upon broad community input collected via an online questionnaire, workshop discussions will address gaps in the current understanding of past climate variability and processes, and new research strategies and technological capabilities that could practically be undertaken to effectively fill these knowledge gaps. In preparation for an update of the research themes and goals of the Paleo perspectives on Climate Change (P2C2) annual competition, this project plans to engage the broad science community via online questionnaire and a workshop to identify potential priority areas for research in a possible follow-on call for proposals and beyond. Engagement with the science community at the outset will help identify themes with high potential to advance the field and that are feasible for NSF to support and for the community to tackle. The project seeks input from a broad community with efforts to achieve diversity in geographic representation, institutional affiliation, career stage, gender, and race. Additionally, identifying future research themes in paleoclimate has inherent broader impact related to the scientific and socioeconomic applications of paleoclimate research and their relevance to decision making on issues such as water management, biodiversity, infrastructure adaptation, etc. Other broader impacts include a report of the workshop and questionnaire activities, available in paper (limited quantities) and free PDF, which will be disseminated to NSF and other interested stakeholders as appropriate. The Workshop report will be made available to the public without restriction and will be posted on the National Academies Press website. The National Academies will conduct extensive outreach and engagement to ensure that the results are widely disseminated. This outreach could include briefings for agencies, briefings for Congressional offices, continued facilitation of on-line discussion forums with the broader community, briefings and webinars, presentations and sessions at relevant conferences, and other related activities.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.