Open Access1988 Pilot Institute on Global Change on trace gases and the biosphere
Author(s) -
John A. Eddy,
Benjamin Moore
Publication year - 1998
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/631194
Subject(s) - biosphere , trace gas , multidisciplinary approach , agency (philosophy) , trace (psycholinguistics) , global change , political science , environmental science , environmental planning , meteorology , climate change , geography , ecology , sociology , social science , linguistics , philosophy , law , biology
This proposal seeks multi-agency funding to conduct an international, multidisciplinary 1988 Pilot Institute on Global Change to take place from August 7 through 21, 1988, on the topic: Trace Gases and the Biosphere. The institute, to be held in Snowmass, Colorado, is envisioned as a pilot version of a continuing series of institutes on Global Change (IGC). This proposal seeks support for the 1988 pilot institute only. The concept and structure for the continuing series, and the definition of the 1988 pilot institute, were developed at an intensive and multidisciplinary Summer Institute Planning Meeting in Boulder, Colorado, on August 24--25, 1987. The theme for the 1988 PIGC, Trace Gases and the Biosphere, will focus a concerted, high-level multidisciplinary effort on a scientific problem central to the Global Change Program. Dramatic year-to-year increases in the global concentrations of radiatively-active trace gases such as methane and carbon dioxide are now well documented. The predicted climatic effects of these changes lend special urgency to efforts to study the biospheric sources and sinks of these gases and to clarify their interactions and role in the geosphere-biosphere system