Mekong - U.S. Partnership
This Workshop in the Network-enabled Collaboration series on “Climate Change Impact on Water Resources in the Lower Mekong Region” will bring together scientists in water-related research and their network support staff from the Lower Mekong region (including Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam) and scientists and network experts from United States to provide an opportunity:
- To raise awareness among scientists and researchers in the Lower Mekong Region of the opportunities available for enhancing the region's ability to respond to the impacts of climate change by exploiting network-enabled collaboration opportunities;
- For U.S. and Lower Mekong researchers to establish and strengthen research relationships resulting in increased scientific collaboration;
- To provide training in network skills and techniques to the network staff of the institutions of the scientists to enhance opportunities for network-enabled collaboration.
This five-day workshop will have a science stream and a network stream. The science stream will include presentations and interactive sessions on water-related research; tutorials that highlight tools for data-intensive research collaborations; case studies; and brainstorming on opportunities for network-enabled collaboration among scientists in the Lower Mekong Region and with US scientists. The network stream will focus on the training and awareness-raising of the network staff from the institutions of the scientists in the science stream.
This workshop is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of State; managed by Indiana University and the University of Oregon; and in addition sponsored by NCAR, PRAGMA,NASATI, and TEIN*CC, among other organizations involved in the planning of the meeting.
For more information please contact Dr. Jennifer M. Schopf jmschopf@iu.edu
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