Workshop: The Past, Present, and Future of NSF's Macrosystems Biology Program, August 5-6, 2015, Arlington, Virginia

研讨会：NSF 宏观系统生物学计划的过去、现在和未来，2015 年 8 月 5 日至 6 日，弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿

• 批准号: 1550171
• 负责人: Adrian Rocha
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: University of Notre Dame
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1550171&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Past; Present; Future; NSF

This award will partially cover participant support for the 2015 MacroSystem Biology (MSB) principal investigator meeting on August 5-6 at NSF headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. This is the last MSB meeting under the current program solicitation. Goals of the meeting include highlighting program successes and discussing future directions for MSB science. Support will be allocated to about 10 participants on a case need basis. Inclusion of these participants will facilitate achieving meeting goals by helping to ensure full participation of MSB projects and enabling full assessment the progress of MSB science over the course of the program. Large-scale atmosphere-biosphere feedbacks and interactions are a large source of uncertainty in predicting the impact of future climate change. The MSB program has served as a catalyst to understand this issue by encouraging interdisciplinary collaborations with researchers in computer science, geography, climatology, biology and ecology. The MSB program is currently on hiatus to reassess program priorities and restructure future iterations. This MSB meeting will be an integral part of this process, as it will highlight the successes and discuss logistical challenges for MSB research. Participant support requested in this proposal is especially important for allowing greater participation and reflection among the diverse group of MSB projects.Understanding atmosphere-biosphere interactions and feedbacks under a changing climate is an urgent need facing society. However, such large scale understanding requires an interdisciplinary approach because of the complexity of scaling up observations and model predictions in time and space. The MSB program was formed in order to address this need and to provide a venue to support inter-disciplinary collaborations. At this meeting, participants will reflect upon the successes of and challenges facing MSB type research in the future through a series of oral and poster presentations and breakout sessions.

该奖项将部分用于资助 8 月 5 日至 6 日在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿 NSF 总部举行的 2015 年 MacroSystem Biology (MSB) 首席研究员会议的参与者支持。这是当前计划征集下的最后一次 MSB 会议。会议的目标包括强调项目的成功并讨论 MSB 科学的未来方向。将根据具体情况向大约 10 名参与者提供支持。这些参与者的加入将有助于确保 MSB 项目的充分参与，并能够全面评估 MSB 科学在计划过程中的进展，从而促进实现会议目标。大规模的大气-生物圈反馈和相互作用是预测未来气候变化影响的一大不确定性来源。 MSB 项目通过鼓励与计算机科学、地理学、气候学、生物学和生态学研究人员的跨学科合作，成为理解这一问题的催化剂。 MSB 计划目前处于暂停状态，以重新评估计划优先级并重组未来的迭代。这次 MSB 会议将是这一过程的一个组成部分，因为它将强调 MSB 研究的成功并讨论后勤挑战。该提案中要求的参与者支持对于让不同的 MSB 项目组有更大的参与和反思尤为重要。了解气候变化下的大气-生物圈相互作用和反馈是社会面临的迫切需要。然而，由于在时间和空间上扩大观测和模型预测的复杂性，如此大规模的理解需要跨学科的方法。 MSB 项目的成立是为了满足这一需求并提供支持跨学科合作的场所。在本次会议上，与会者将通过一系列口头和海报展示以及分组会议，反思 MSB 类型研究的成功和未来面临的挑战。