International Travel: AGU Chapman Conference on the Gaia Hypothesis; Valencia, Spain; June 19-23, 2000

国际旅行：AGU 查普曼盖亚假说会议；

• 批准号: 9912165
• 负责人: A. F. Spilhaus, Jr.
• 金额: $ 3.41万
• 依托单位: American Geophysical Union
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-04-01 至 2001-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9912165&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Travel; AGU; Chapman; Conference

This award is for travel support for graduate students and young scientists to attend the Chapman Conference on The Gaia Hypothesis to be held in Valencia, Spain June 19-23 2000. A fundamental intellectual question in geosciences is the role of life in regulating the biosphere's biogeochemical cycles and climate. The Gaia hypothesis asserts that interaction between the biota and the physical and chemical environment is large enough to serve as an active feedback capacity for biogeoclimatologic control. On the other hand many environmental changes over geological time scales can be explained using geochemical arguments, regardless of the contribution to life. The first Chapman conference on the Gaia hypothesis was held in 1988 to examine the possibility of active climate regulation systems and the relative importance of feedback processes between organic and inorganic environmental components. A ten-year interval has elapsed since that conference. The objective of the second conference is to focus on the work initiated since, and to update material from the first conference

该奖项用于资助研究生和年轻科学家参加将于 2000 年 6 月 19 日至 23 日在西班牙巴伦西亚举行的查普曼盖亚假说会议。地球科学的一个基本知识问题是生命在调节生物圈生物地球化学中的作用周期和气候。盖亚假说认为，生物群与物理和化学环境之间的相互作用足够大，足以充当生物地球气候控制的主动反馈能力。另一方面，地质时间尺度上的许多环境变化可以用地球化学论证来解释，无论对生命的贡献如何。关于盖亚假说的第一届查普曼会议于 1988 年举行，旨在研究主动气候调节系统的可能性以及有机和无机环境成分之间反馈过程的相对重要性。自那次会议以来，已经过去十年了。第二次会议的目标是重点关注自第一次会议以来开展的工作，并更新第一次会议的材料