Dear Nomination Subcommittee:

This briefing outlines the nomination process and priority areas for the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) Science Advisory Council (SAC) for 2010, detailing the need to replace two members and the criteria for selecting new nominees to ensure scientific excellence and regional balance.

• For 2010, the IAI Science Advisory Council (SAC) requires the replacement of two members, Rana Fine and Maria Carmen Lemos, while three members—Hal Mooney, Ramon Pichs, and Carolina Vera—have requested re-nomination.
• The IAI has identified four priority research areas for SAC openings: Climate Science (specifically climate modeling); Ecosystems and climate (specifically ecosystem biodiversity and climate); Policy and Human Dimensions of global change (including vulnerability assessment, mitigation and adaptation, and science-policy interaction); and Integration and modeling (focusing on resilience and Social Ecological Systems modeling).
• Basic criteria for SAC nominations include scientific excellence—defined as research with high intellectual merit and high societal impact—as well as gender balance and geopolitical balance across North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean.
• Secondary considerations for nominees include the ability to conduct interdisciplinary research, the ability to represent the best available science in the Americas, and the capacity to bridge the gap between science and policy to produce usable output for decision-makers.

APA

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (n.d.). Dear Nomination Subcommittee:. https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/iai-cop-17-SAC-renewal.pdf

Chicago

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. Dear Nomination Subcommittee:. n.d. https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/iai-cop-17-SAC-renewal.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearchnddear, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{Dear Nomination Subcommittee:}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, url = {https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/iai-cop-17-SAC-renewal.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }