Macrosystems Biology and Early NEON Science Investigator Meeting, Alexandria, Virginia, January 8-10, 2018

宏观系统生物学和早期 NEON 科学研究者会议，弗吉尼亚州亚历山大，2018 年 1 月 8-10 日

• 批准号: 1818519
• 负责人: Kevin Rose
• 金额: $ 9.43万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1818519&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Macrosystems; Biology; Early; NEON; Science

The biosphere has changed more in the past 50 years than during any time in human history. Environmental change, land use change, and the introduction of invasive species that collectively affect living systems by altering the fundamental relationships between life and the non-living environment that sustains it. Many of the changes challenge our understanding of how the biosphere works - how the ecological systems on which we depend will respond to changes in environment, land use, biodiversity, and a host of related environmental factors. Research in Macrosystems Biology is developing the basic scientific knowledge needed to understand the biosphere at regional to continental and annual to decadal scales, to quantify the strong and weak forces regulating the biosphere, and to predict the consequences of environmental and land use change and invasive species on living systems is difficult to extrapolate from studies conducted at local or global scales. Macrosystems ecology seeks to understand ecological processes and interactions at the broadest spatial scales and has potential to help solve globally important social and ecological challenges. Critical advances in this field are shared through publications, presentations, and synthesis activities such as workshops and symposia.This conference award will support a meeting of Macrosystems Biology and Early NEON Science investigators, postdoctoral scientists, and graduate students. Substantial investments in Macrosystems Biology research and education are generating new insights into pattern and process at Macro-scales. The meeting will advance Macrosystems Biology and Early NEON Science by: 1) Providing a forum to summarize and discuss the science of Macrosystems Biology and Early NEON Science; 2) Fostering collaboration and synthesis among scientists and graduate students across funded projects; 3) Facilitating networking and professional development of attendees, especially early career scientists; and 4) Developing a series of synthesis papers. The overarching themes of the meeting include: 1) scaling; 2) team science and education, and 3) big data and associated challenges. Discussion of these themes will yield insights to generate new Macrosystems Biology theory and best-practices that will mark critical advancements in the emerging sub-discipline of Macrosystems Biology. This meeting will broaden impacts through professional development and engagement of a diverse pool of scientists, collaboration and synthesis of active researchers, and by generating new ideas and synthetic research products. The participants represent a broad range of diversity at the meeting across career stage and academic rank, geographic origin, type of academic institution, disciplinary expertise, gender, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic background, sexual orientation, and disability status. A substantial proportion of funding for this meeting is specifically allocated to support early career scientists. The resulting synthesis papers will be published in a special issue in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment following this meeting. Through face-to-face time, formal lectures, break-out groups, and follow up dialogue in developing the special issue, it is anticipated the special issue will galvanize new ideas and advancements in Macrosystems Biology and serve as a benchmark, establishing and describing important elements, methods, and insights in Macrosystems Biology for the broader scientific community.

过去 50 年，生物圈发生的变化比人类历史上任何时期都多。环境变化、土地利用变化以及入侵物种的引入，通过改变生命与维持生命的非生命环境之间的基本关系，共同影响生命系统。许多变化挑战了我们对生物圈如何运作的理解——我们赖以生存的生态系统将如何应对环境、土地利用、生物多样性和许多相关环境因素的变化。宏观系统生物学研究正在开发所需的基础科学知识，以了解区域到大陆以及每年到十年尺度的生物圈，量化调节生物圈的强弱力量，并预测环境和土地利用变化以及入侵物种的后果很难从地方或全球范围内进行的研究中推断出对生命系统的影响。宏观系统生态学致力于了解最广泛空间尺度的生态过程和相互作用，并有潜力帮助解决全球重要的社会和生态挑战。该领域的关键进展通过出版物、演讲和综合活动（例如研讨会和专题讨论会）来分享。该会议奖项将支持宏观系统生物学和早期霓虹灯科学研究人员、博士后科学家和研究生举行会议。 对宏观系统生物学研究和教育的大量投资正在产生对宏观尺度模式和过程的新见解。会议将通过以下方式推进宏观系统生物学和早期霓虹灯科学： 1）提供一个总结和讨论宏观系统生物学和早期霓虹灯科学的论坛； 2）促进资助项目中科学家和研究生之间的合作和综合； 3）促进与会者，特别是早期职业科学家的网络和专业发展； 4) 撰写一系列综合论文。会议的首要主题包括：1）扩展； 2) 团队科学和教育，以及 3) 大数据和相关挑战。对这些主题的讨论将产生新的宏观系统生物学理论和最佳实践，这将标志着宏观系统生物学新兴子学科的关键进步。这次会议将通过专业发展和多元化科学家的参与、活跃研究人员的合作和综合以及产生新想法和综合研究产品来扩大影响。会议参与者代表了广泛的多样性，涵盖职业阶段和学术等级、地理出身、学术机构类型、学科专业知识、性别、种族和民族、社会经济背景、性取向和残疾状况。本次会议的很大一部分资金专门用于支持早期职业科学家。由此产生的综合论文将在本次会议之后发表在《生态与环境前沿》杂志的特刊上。通过面对面的时间、正式讲座、分组讨论以及在制定特刊时的后续对话，预计特刊将激发宏观系统生物学的新思想和进步，并作为基准，建立和描述为更广泛的科学界提供宏观系统生物学的重要元素、方法和见解。