Global Change Research Program: A component of the US Global Change Research Program. 1993 research opportunities
The necessity for understanding our global environment, its natural variability, and the changes imposed on it through human activities is recognized internationally. In the United States, the high priority placed by the Government on understanding the global environment led to the establishment of the U.S. Global Change Research Program. The program is an integrated research effort with the goal of establishing the scientific basis for national and international policymaking related to natural and human-induced changes in the global Earth system and their regional impacts. Within this program, the National Science Foundation, one of the funding agencies, is responsible for maintaining the health of basic research in all areas of solid Earth, atmospheric, ocean, terrestrial, and social sciences as well as research in polar regions. The basic research program is focused on ground-based studies on regional and global scales; large-scale field programs; interpretation and use of remotely sensed data and geographic information systems; theoretical and laboratory research; research facilities support; and the development of numerical models, information and communication systems, and data bases. Research opportunities with NSF are described.
- Research Organization:
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 6624817
- Report Number(s):
- N-93-18319; NSF-92-77; NSF-91-33
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Original contains color illustrations
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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