RoL: FELS Conference: A Fading Cryosphere Shifting Temperature and Stoichiometry in Mountain Lakes and Streams: A US-China Cooperative Workshop

RoL：FELS 会议：消失的冰冻圈改变高山湖泊和溪流的温度和化学计量：中美合作研讨会

• 批准号: 1834494
• 负责人: James Elser
• 金额: $ 7.39万
• 依托单位: University of Montana
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1834494&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RoL; FELS; Conference; Fading; Cryosphere

This project supports a workshop in April 2019 at the Flathead Lake Biological Station (Montana) involving researchers from the United States of America and China. The cryosphere is the frozen part of the Earth and involves glacier ice, snowpack, and permafrost. Around the world, cryosphere melt is accelerating, including in mountain regions. These changes are important because mountain regions supply water to 40% of the world's population. However, in many situations it is not well-understood how the changing cryosphere impacts aquatic ecosystems such as lakes and rivers and the organisms that live in them. Furthermore, research conducted in different countries is often not well-integrated and data platforms for sharing of similar data are not well-developed. This workshop will support a 5-day meeting of researchers from the USA and China who are studying how the changing cryosphere affects aquatic ecosystems in mountain regions. An emphasis will be on how underlying biological similarities (Rules of Life) can help draw connections between regions and how data platforms can be developed to maximize efficiency and effectiveness in scientific investigations of these changes. This workshop will involve about 20 USA researchers at a broad range of career stages (graduate students to professors) and a similar cohort of Chinese counterparts. Mountain regions are experiencing rapid transitions in the cryosphere, losing permanent snow and ice that buffer discharge, shape regional environmental and habitat conditions, and provide diverse ecosystem services for humanity. The ongoing changes in the cryosphere are widespread, complex, and affect a variety of key parameters of alpine lakes and streams such as temperature, transparency, discharge, and nutrient supply. Documenting, understanding, and forecasting these impacts is challenging and requires broad interdisciplinary collaborations. Building off of the success of a first workshop held at Qinghai Lake in China in August 2017, a second workshop to be held in the USA has two goals: 1. assessing how fundamental similarities in biota (such as the temperature dependence of metabolism or the stoichiometric signature of biomass) can help understand the impacts of cryosphere loss on aquatic ecosystems and 2. establishing a framework for US/China joint data centers, producing a database across multiple sites in both countries. This workshop will foster international cooperation via collaboration across US and Chinese researchers working on a common, pressing environmental issue in both regions, establishing conceptual frameworks and building precedents for data sharing and collaboration. The highly interdisciplinary nature of the collaboration workshop will also provide important professional development opportunities and training for participants of all career stages including graduate students and postdocs. More information about the workshop can be found at https://renzedyk.wixsite.com/us-china-workshop2This 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.

该项目于2019年4月在Flathead Lake Biological Station（Montana）上支持一个研讨会，涉及来自美利坚合众国和中国的研究人员。冰冻层是地球的冷冻部分，涉及冰川冰，积雪和多年冻土。在世界范围内，Cryosphere融化正在加速，包括在山区。 这些变化很重要，因为山区为全球40％的人口提供水。 但是，在许多情况下，不太理解的是，不断变化的冰冻圈如何影响湖泊和河流等水生生态系统以及生活在其中的生物体。此外，在不同国家进行的研究通常不是整合的综合性，共享类似数据的数据平台也没有得到充分的开发。该研讨会将支持美国和中国的研究人员为期5天的会议，他们正在研究不断变化的冰圈如何影响山区的水生生态系统。 重点将放在潜在的生物学相似性（生命规则）如何帮助区域之间建立联系以及如何开发数据平台以最大程度地提高效率和有效性，以在这些变化的科学研究中。该研讨会将涉及大约20名美国研究人员的职业阶段（教授的研究生）和类似的中国同行。 山区正在经历冰冻圈的快速过渡，失去了缓冲液的永久性雪和冰，塑造了区域环境和栖息地条件，并为人类提供了多种生态系统服务。冰冻圈的持续变化是广泛的，复杂的，并且会影响高山湖和流的各种关键参数，例如温度，透明度，排放和养分供应。记录，理解和预测这些影响是具有挑战性的，需要广泛的跨学科合作。 Building off of the success of a first workshop held at Qinghai Lake in China in August 2017, a second workshop to be held in the USA has two goals: 1. assessing how fundamental similarities in biota (such as the temperature dependence of metabolism or the stoichiometric signature of biomass) can help understand the impacts of cryosphere loss on aquatic ecosystems and 2. establishing a framework for US/China joint data centers,在两个国家的多个站点上生产数据库。该研讨会将通过在美国和中国研究人员之间的合作来促进国际合作，从事两个地区的共同，紧迫的环境问题，建立概念框架并建立数据共享和协作的先例。合作研讨会的高度跨学科性质还将为包括研究生和博士学位在内的所有职业阶段的参与者提供重要的专业发展机会和培训。有关该研讨会的更多信息，请参见https://renzedyk.wixsite.com/us-china-workshop22rans Award反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子的评估来支持的，并具有更广泛的影响。