Open AccessAspen Global Change Institute Summer Science Sessions
Author(s) -
J. Katzenberger,
Jack A. Kaye
Publication year - 2006
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/1089153
Subject(s) - session (web analytics) , dialog box , working group , discipline , presentation (obstetrics) , plan (archaeology) , work (physics) , library science , political science , focus group , research program , public relations , engineering , sociology , geography , computer science , world wide web , medicine , mechanical engineering , philosophy , archaeology , epistemology , anthropology , law , radiology
The Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) successfully organized and convened six interdisciplinary meetings over the course of award NNG04GA21G. The topics of the meetings were consistent with a range of issues, goals and objectives as described within the NASA Earth Science Enterprise Strategic Plan and more broadly by the US Global Change Research Program/Our Changing Planet, the more recent Climate Change Program Strategic Plan and the NSF Pathways report. The meetings were chaired by two or more leaders from within the disciplinary focus of each session. 222 scholars for a total of 1097 participants-days were convened under the auspices of this award. The overall goal of each AGCI session is to further the understanding of Earth system science and global environmental change through interdisciplinary dialog. The format and structure of the meetings allows for presentation by each participant, in-depth discussion by the whole group, and smaller working group and synthesis activities. The size of the group is important in terms of the group dynamics and interaction, and the ability for each participant's work to be adequately presented and discussed within the duration of the meeting, while still allowing time for synthesi