Collaborative Research: Ecological Circuitry Collaboratory

合作研究：生态电路合作实验室

• 批准号: 0404876
• 负责人: Mark Hunter
• 金额: $ 2.4万
• 依托单位: University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-05-01 至 2006-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0404876&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Ecological; Circuitry; Collaboratory

For at least three decades there has been a call for training ecologists with greater quantitative skills and for scientists that are capable of working in groups to solve complex environmental problems. The Ecological Circuitry Collaboratory (ECC) is an effort to "close the circuit" between empiricists and theoreticians in the ecological sciences. The ECC consists of a set of seven investigators previously funded by the NSF Ecosystem Studies and Ecology programs, and their students, whose projects study the relationship between ecosystem structure and function. Students in the ECC are learning to build, use, and understand models while at the same time have firm grounding in the practices of field- and lab-based empirical science. Training in modeling comes from students' home institutions and from a series of group workshops. A major effort has been the development of a group modeling project to develop both modeling and group interaction skills.The scientific merit of the project comes from the completion of seven novel and important graduate student research projects. The broader impacts will emerge as the ECC addresses critical questions about links between research, education, synthesis, prediction and group dynamics in environmental science.

至少三十年来，人们一直呼吁培养具有更高定量技能的生态学家和能够通过团队合作解决复杂环境问题的科学家。 生态回路合作实验室（ECC）致力于在生态科学领域的经验主义者和理论家之间“闭合回路”。 ECC 由先前由 NSF 生态系统研究和生态学项目资助的七名研究人员及其学生组成，他们的项目研究生态系统结构与功能之间的关系。 ECC 的学生正在学习构建、使用和理解模型，同时在基于现场和实验室的实证科学实践中打下坚实的基础。 建模培训来自学生所在机构和一系列小组研讨会。 一项主要工作是开发了一个小组建模项目，以培养建模和小组互动技能。该项目的科学价值来自于完成了七个新颖且重要的研究生研究项目。 随着 ECC 解决有关环境科学中的研究、教育、综合、预测和群体动态之间联系的关键问题，更广泛的影响将会出现。