Workshop: Design and Scientific Merit of the Variable Atmosphere Laboratory (VAL), to be held on March 6 - 7, 2008 in Tempe, AZ.

研讨会：可变大气实验室 (VAL) 的设计和科学优点，将于 2008 年 3 月 6 日至 7 日在亚利桑那州坦佩举行。

• 批准号: 0748882
• 负责人: Jon Harrison
• 金额: $ 1.31万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0748882&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Design; Scientific; Merit; Variable

This award will fund a workshop to discuss the scientific rationale for and design of a national facility (VAL, Variable Atmosphere Laboratory) to study the effects of atmospheric composition and climate on biological and earth processes. The tentative location of this facility would be the Arizona State University Polytechnic campus. VAL is envisioned as containing approximately 50 terrestrial and 20 aquatic "mini-worlds" in which atmospheric composition, temperature, humidity, UV radiation, atmospheric pressure and light cycle can be controlled. VAL would serve a wide variety of research fields, including geology, paleontology, ecology, plant physiology, animal physiology, astrobiology and environmental toxicology. Creation of VAL would provide the U.S. with the premier facility for experimental analysis of the effects of past and future climate change, and would be a critical step in rational planning for a sustainable earth. Educational outreach will be an important component of VAL. School groups will be able to tour the facility, and web cams and web-based data systems will allow school groups to observe and participate in on-going experiments. Educating students and the general public on the impacts of global change will be a central theme of VAL. The purpose of the workshop is to gather diverse, expert opinion on the design and construction of VAL, with a special emphasis on the identification of: 1) the most important scientific problems that cannot currently be addressed in a cost-effective manner without VAL, and 2) key design features necessary for the success of VAL. Because of the breadth of fields encompassed by VAL, it is critical that the design and scientific rationale for VAL be considered by experts from diverse fields. The workshop will be held at the Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity at Arizona State University.The product of the workshop will be a white paper, which will be submitted to a general US science journal, and will serve as the basis for proposals to fund construction of VAL. Construction of VAL will eventually require significant support from multiple agencies such as DOE, NASA, NIH, NOAA, EPA and NSF.

该奖项将资助一个研讨会，讨论国家设施（VAL，可变大气实验室）的科学原理，以研究大气组成和气候对生物和地球过程的影响。该设施的暂定位置将是亚利桑那州立大学理工学院校园。 VAL被设想为包含大约50个地面和20种水生“迷你世界”，其中大气成分，温度，湿度，紫外线辐射，大气压和光循环可以得到控制。 Val将服务各种研究领域，包括地质，古生物学，生态学，植物生理学，动物生理学，天文学和环境毒理学。 VAL的创建将为美国提供对过去和未来气候变化影响的实验分析的主要设施，这将是可持续地球合理规划的关键一步。 教育外展将是Val的重要组成部分。 学校团体将能够参观该设施，网络摄像头和基于Web的数据系统将使学校团体可以观察并参与正在进行的实验。 教育学生和公众有关全球变化的影响将是Val的中心主题。 研讨会的目的是收集有关Val设计和建设的多样化的专家意见，并特别强调以下标识：1）目前无法以具有成本效益的方式解决的最重要的科学问题，而没有Val，以及2）2）为Val成功所必需的关键设计功能。 由于瓦尔所包含的领域的广度，至关重要的是，来自不同领域的专家考虑了Val的设计和科学原理。该研讨会将在亚利桑那州立大学的社会动态与复杂性中心举行。研讨会的产品将是一份白皮书，将提交给美国一般科学杂志，并将作为资助Val建设的建议的基础。 Val的构建最终将需要多个机构，例如DOE，NASA，NIH，NOAA，EPA和NSF。