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AGCI workshops provides a much-needed forum to bring together natural and social scientists – ecologists, oceanographers, atmospheric chemists, and climate experts along with political scientists, population dynamicists, anthropologists, sociologists, and educators – enabling them to work together at the cutting edge of a variety of topics of critical importance in the global change arena.
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Global Change and the Solar-Terrestrial Environment
12 June - 17 June 2010
This workshop will convene scientists who study the solar-terrestrial environment and those who study global change. The purpose is to assess our level of understanding of the system by: identifying recent advances connecting solar changes to changes in Earth's global environment in the context of changes in greenhouse gases, aerosols, and land cover; identifying gaps in our knowledge; and identifying interdisciplinary research topics to improve predictions of solar-terrestrial influences on Earth's global environment and its people in the context of the full range of global change forcings and feedbacks. In short - What do we know? What don't we know? What are the top four research projects that can improve our present knowledge? View
State of the Global Phosphorus Cycle
30 September - 4 October 2009
Roughly a generation ago, environmental scientists began a concentrated effort to document the extent, pace and consequences of human alteration to Earth's major biogeochemical cycles. Though much work has been done in this arena, compared to the state of our knowledge on carbon and nitrogen cycles, knowledge of phosphorus lags behind. While we know humans are changing the P cycle, we lack a quantitative picture at regional scales of how much, how fast, and in what ways. Such information is essential not only for predicting well-recognized consequences of P enrichment, such as aquatic eutrophication, but also for understanding the ways in which the global C and N cycles will continue to evolve. Finally, useful reserves of reactive P are finite, and the long-term sustainability of intensive agricultural systems depends on the careful management of P reserves. Like nitrogen, the majority of human-driven changes to the P cycle are linked to modern agriculture, and thus prior assessments of the N cycle will be enormously helpful to the efforts for P. This AGCI meeting was held to finalize a strategy to complete the assessment for P, identify components of the work that individual participants would lead, and galvanize the entire process. View
Advanced Climate Modeling and Decision-Making Support of Climate Services
20 September - 24 September 2009
This workshop invites leading climate scientists, decision-makers, planners, and climate change impacts experts to explore linkages between advanced climate change science modeling and water resource management and planning. The aims of this workshop include indentifying what current knowledge can be utilized by decision-makers, finding gaps in the information supplied by current modeling tools, and developing strategies to supplement decision support across different timescales. Additional attention will also be given to coastal vulnerability-reduction decision-making. View
Managing the Cycles of Nitrogen and Phosphorus: Mitigation and Adaptation
22 October - 25 October 2008
The human impact on global cycles of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) has been a recent focus of global change scientists. In this session, a small working group convened to focus on identifying and developing the information that society needs to respond effectively to anthropogenic changes in the cycles of N and P. View
Climate Prediction to 2030: Is it possible, what are the scientific issues, and how would those predictions be used?
22 June - 28 June 2008
In 1997, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report expressed interest in "short-term" climate predictions out to 2030. Short-term climate predictions were first discussed in a 2006 AGCI session, and this 2008 session picks up where the 2006 session left off, tackling not only the formidable science issues involved with designing and running short-term climate projections (now more commonly referred to as "decadal prediction") but also addressing the important issues of the utility and applications of this information for decision support and impacts research. View
Northern Eurasia Landsurface Properties and Change and its Role in the Global Earth System
12 August - 17 August 2007
Northern Eurasia, which accounts for 20 percent of the Earth's landmass, is undergoing rapid and significant changes associated with changing climate and socio-economic patterns. This Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI) workshop focused on how to incorporate regional biophysical feedbacks associated with terrestria in the northern high latitudes, a key issue for emerging earth system models. Discussions explored issues pertaining to permafrost change, land cover change, climatic change, and the social processes that intertwine and feed back to environmental changes in the region and beyond. View
Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate
25 June - 29 June 2007
One goal of the United States Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) regarding climate extremes is "to reduce uncertainty in projections of how the Earth's climate and related systems may change in the future." With this aim in mind, this AGCI meeting worked to develop and summarize the scientific understanding of weather and climate extremes for the CCSP. View
Exploring the Boundaries of Nature: A Reflective Dialogue on the Environment
13 August - 19 August 2006
The purpose of this workshop was to bring together experts from a diverse range of communities to consider new ways of exploring our relationship to the environment. In this AGCI workshop participants did not assess the science of global environmental change, but worked to understand and explore impediments to reaching a consensus view among five communities, often functioning in separation: science, business, government, media, and education. View
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