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Understanding Multiple Environmental Stresses: Report of a Workshop Committee on Earth-Atmosphere Interactions: Understanding and Responding to Multiple Environmental Stresses, National Research Council ISBN: 0-309-66576-0, 154 pages, 6 x 9, (2007) This free PDF was downloaded from: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11748.html Visit the National Academies Press online, the authoritative source for all books from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council: • Download hundreds of free books in PDF • Read thousands of books online, free • Sign up to be notified when new books are published • Purchase printed books • Purchase PDFs • Explore with our innovative research tools Thank you for downloading this free PDF. 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Washington, DC 20001 NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance. This study was supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronau- tics and Space Administration under Grant No. ATM-0135923, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under Contract No. 52-DGNA-1-90024, and the Environ- mental Protection Agency under Purchase Order No. 2W-0373-NANX. Any opinions, fndings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily refect the views of the agencies that provided support for this project. 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All rights reserved. Understanding Multiple Environmental Stresses: Report of a Workshop http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11748.html COMMITTEE ON EARTH-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS: UNDERSTANDING AND RESPONDING TO MULTIPLE ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSES ROSINA M. BIERBAUM (Co-chair), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MARY ANNE CARROLL (Co-chair), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor CHRISTOPHER B. FIELD, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, California EDWARD L. MILES, University of Washington, Seattle DONALD A. WILHITE, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NRC Staff CHRIS ELFRING, Study Director MATTHEW M. RUSSELL, Associate Program Offcer (until 9/2006) DIANE GUSTAFSON, Administrative Coordinator v Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Understanding Multiple Environmental Stresses: Report of a Workshop http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11748.html BOARD ON ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE ROBERT J. SERAFIN (Chair), National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado M. JOAN ALEXANDER, NorthWest Research Associates/CORA, Boulder, Colorado FREDERICK R. ANDERSON, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, Washington, D.C. MICHAEL L. BENDER, Princeton University, New Jersey ROSINA M. BIERBAUM, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MARY ANNE CARROLL, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor CAROL ANNE CLAYSON, Florida State University, Tallahassee WALTER F. DABBERDT, Vaisala Inc., Boulder, Colorado KERRY A. EMANUEL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge DENNIS L. HARTMANN, University of Washington, Seattle PETER R. LEAVITT, Weather Information Inc., Newton, Massachusetts JENNIFER A. LOGAN, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts VERNON R. MORRIS, Howard University, Washington, D.C. F. SHERWOOD ROWLAND, University of California, Irvine THOMAS H. VONDER HAAR, Colorado State University/CIRA, Fort Collins ROGER M. WAKIMOTO, National Center for Atmospheric Research, B oulder, Colorado Ex Offcio Members ANTONIO J. BUSALACCHI, JR., University of Maryland, College Park NRC Staff CHRIS ELFRING, Director AMANDA STAUDT, Senior Program Offcer CURTIS MARSHALL, Program Offcer IAN KRAUCUNAS, Associate Program Offcer CLAUDIA MENGELT, Associate Program Offcer ELIZABETH A. GALINIS, Research Associate LEAH PROBST, Research Associate ROB GREENWAY, Senior Program Assistant KATHERINE WELLER, Program Assistant DIANE GUSTAFSON, Administrative Coordinator ANDREAS SOHRE, Financial Associate vi Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Understanding Multiple Environmental Stresses: Report of a Workshop http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11748.html Preface Periodically the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC) works with its federal agency partners to select a topic for a special workshop, some- times called our “summer study.” The purpose of the workshop is to provide an opportunity for scientists, industry, and agency staff to explore current issues in an interactive format. Sometimes these workshops address practical problems, such as communicating uncertainties in weather forecasts (NRC, 2003), and other times specialized technical issues, such as improving the physical parameteriza- tions in coupled atmosphere-ocean-land models (NRC, 2005a). Often, such as in this report, an issue is selected that might otherwise go unstudied due to the scale, scope, or tractability of the problem. The 2005 BASC workshop focused on multiple environmental stresses in the earth-atmosphere system (see Appendix A for Statement of Task). Historically, environmental problems have been studied one at a time and sector by sector (e.g., the impacts of air pollution on human health or the impacts of invasive species on fsheries). Although this approach has enabled researchers to make good progress in many areas in characterizing cause-effect environmental relationships that are linear in nature and limited in scale, it does not consider the composite effects of simultaneous environmental changes. Unless we consider robust options that solve multiple problems and prevent new ones, we may be ineffective and ineffcient in our environmental efforts. Some of these issues are addressed in other National Research Council reports (e.g., NRC, 1999, 2002). vii Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Understanding Multiple Environmental Stresses: Report of a Workshop http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11748.html viii PREFACE 1 This workshop was intended as a step in identifying the types of near-term and long-term research needed to understand multiple environmental stresses and explore integrated strategies to address them. It was planned and facilitated by a fve-person steering committee and was held September 29-30, 2005, at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies in Irvine, California. More than 25 experts from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, including both the natural and social sciences, attended, as well as managers and stakeholders in various sectors and regions (see Appendix B for the workshop agenda and Appendix C for the participant list). The participants were charged to explore current understanding of multiple environmental stresses in the earth- atmosphere system and to discuss the types of research needed to improve inte- grated understanding and response strategies for these kinds of complex, nonlinear problems. To focus the discussions, two case studies were selected and partici- pants were assigned to come prepared with short talks on aspects of these cases; other participants were assigned to lead discussion sessions to explore the issues and generate ideas about research needs. This report is the steering committee’s summary of these presentations and the associated discussions; abstracts of the participants’ talks are included as Appendix D. The workshop was funded using support provided from the National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Environmental Protection Agency. On behalf of the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate and the N ational Academies, I would like to express great thanks to the steering committee for its leadership and to all the workshop speakers and participants for their time and thoughtful comments. Although a workshop by defnition can only explore issues and not provide truly detailed or deliberative recommendations, this work- shop report should prove useful to researchers and agency program managers looking for opportunities to address these complex issues. Chris Elfring, Director Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate 1 Following standard National Academies procedures for workshops, this report captures the discus- sions and presentations that occurred during the two-day event; it does not contain recommendations. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Understanding Multiple Environmental Stresses: Report of a Workshop http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11748.html Acknowledgments This workshop report was written by the workshop steering committee based on the presentations and discussions at the workshop, and we appreciate the input from all the participants. In addition, this report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in a ccordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confdential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report: M. Joan Alexander, NorthWest Research Associates/CORA, Boulder, Colorado Eric J. Barron, University of Texas at Austin Julio Betancourt, University of Arizona, Tucson Scott C. Doney, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts Kelly T. Redmond, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada William H. Schlesinger, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive com- ments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or rec- ommendations nor did they see the fnal draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Elbert W. Friday, Jr., University of ix Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
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