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Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Participants in Ecosystem Panel's Workshop." National Research Council. 2000. Global Change Ecosystems Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9983.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix: Participants in Ecosystem Panel's Workshop." National Research Council. 2000. Global Change Ecosystems Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9983.
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Appendix PARTICIPANTS IN ECOSYSTEM PANEL'S WORKSHOP, ST. MICHAELS, MD., JULY 1998 Shere Abbott, National Research Council Jeff Amthor,~ Oak Ridge National Laboratory Daniel Binkley,~ Colorado State University Daniel Botkin,~ George Mason University Jeanne Clarke, University of Arizona Roger Dahlman, DOE Virginia Dale, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Jerry Elwood, DOE lames Galloway, University of Virginia Paul Gilman, National Research Council Dave Goodrich, USGCRP Lisa Graumlich,~ University of · - arlzona 47 David Hall,t King's College of London Robert Harris, University of New Hampshire Bruce Hayden, NSF Geoffrey Heal, Columbia University Frances James, Florida State University Anthony Janetos, NASA Peter Jutro, EPA David Karl, University of Hawaii at Manoa William Lewis, University of Colorado, Boulder lames MacMahon,~ Utah State University Gregg Marland,~ Oak Ridge National Laboratory Emily Matthews, WRI Herman Mayeux, USDA

48 Harold Mooney,t Stanford University Robert Naiman,~ University of Washington EIvia Niebla, Forest Service B arry No on, ~ C o ~ orado S tale University David Policansky, National Research Council Don Pryor, OSTP Les Read, Emory University Tony Reichhardt, Nature Magazine Jim Reichman,~ NCEAS Paul Risser, Oregon State University Panel Members and Project Staff tTnvited Presenters and Responders APPENDIX Jennifer Ruesink,~ University of British Columbia Daniel SimberIoff, University of Tennessee Robert Socolow,* Princeton University Melanie Stiassny,~ American Museum of Natural History Monica Turner, University of Wisconsin-Madison Susan Ustin, University of California, Davis Stephanie Vann, National Research Council Diane Wickland, NASA

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Research Council established the Ecosystems Panel in response to a request from the United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). The panel's charge included periodic reviews of the ecosystems aspects of the USGCRP, and this is the first of those reviews. It is based on information provided by the USGCRP, including Our Changing Planet (NSTC 1997 and earlier editions 1); ideas and conversations provided by participants in a workshop held in St. Michaels, Maryland, in July 1998; and the deliberations of the panel. In addition, the panel reviewed the ecosystems chapter of the NRC report Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade (NRC 1999a, known as the Pathways report).

The USGCRP is an interagency program established in 1989 and codified by the Global Change Research Act of 1990 (PL 101-606). The USGCRP comprises representatives of the departments of Agriculture, Commerce (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and National Institute of Standards and Technology), Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services (the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences), Interior, and State, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Office of Management and Budget, and the intelligence community (NSTC 1997). The USGCRP's research program is described in detail in Our Changing Planet (NSTC 1997, 1999). In brief, the program focuses on four major areas of earth-system science: 1) Seasonal to interannual climate variability; 2) Climate change over decades to centuries; 3) Changes in ozone, ultraviolet (UV) radiation, and atmospheric chemistry, and 4) Changes in land cover and in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The fourth topic is the area in which advice was requested from the ecosystems panel.

The Ecosystems Panel's charge has three parts: to provide a forum for the discussion of questions of ecosystem science of interest to scientists in and out of the federal agencies, to periodically review the ecosystem aspects of the USGCRP's research program, and to help identify general areas of ecosystem science that need additional attention, especially areas that cut across ecosystems and levels of ecological organization. In addressing the second item of its charge for this report, the panel first identified the most significant and challenging areas in ecosystem science, then used that identification as a basis to make recommendations to the USGCRP. Thus, this report is not a detailed review of the USGCRP's program, but rather an attempt to identify those areas that the panel concludes are most in need of attention by a general research program on global change. As noted in this report, some of those areas are already receiving attention by the USGCRP.

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