Forging the future of ecological stoichiometry: the fourth Woodstoich workshop; August, 2019, Montana

打造生态化学计量学的未来：第四届伍斯托伊克研讨会；

• 批准号: 1840408
• 负责人: James Elser
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Montana
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-02-01 至 2020-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840408&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Forging; future; ecological; stoichiometry; fourth; Forging; future; ecological; stoichiometry; fourth

New scientific advances often require synthesis of information from many perspectives. This is particularly true in the environmental sciences. New ideas that build on what we know are needed for a deeper understanding of human impact on ecosystems. Training young scientists to think broadly and synthetically is important to achieve this deeper understanding. This workshop will provide an opportunity for twenty-four young scientists to interact with each other and their more senior colleagues. The goal is to improve and expand ideas in ecology and evolution by building on previous work and bringing many perspectives together to explore new frontiers. These new ideas will be shared broadly with the science community and the public. The outcome of the workshop will be several high impact publications presenting some of the most exciting new ideas in ecology and evolution. It will also set a cohort of young scientists, many from underrepresented groups, on a pathway to success in the environmental sciences.The ecological and biological stoichiometry theoretical frameworks apply mass balance of energy and multiple chemical elements to fluxes at multiple scales of biological organization and integrate them into an evolutionary framework. The vision of the proposed product-focused event, The Woodstoich 4 Workshop, is to empower early career scientists to invigorate ecology by improving and expanding the use of stoichiometric theory. The proposed workshop will stimulate innovation by encouraging open dialogue and rigorous exchange of ideas and methods amongst diverse, early career scientists whose ways of working are not locked into place by tradition, long-standing habits, or professional obligation. Key concepts in the product-focused workshop framework include selection of a few, early-career post-doctoral researchers or first-year assistant professors with an innovative stoichiometric vision that lead working groups composed of other early career researchers to clarify that vision in the form of a manuscript that is rapidly but rigorously peer-reviewed for publication. Participants will apply and be selected based not only on their disciplinary focus and accomplishments but also to incorporate diversity that is essential to the creative effectiveness of groups.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

新的科学进步通常需要从许多角度综合信息。在环境科学中尤其如此。基于我们所知道的新想法，以更深入地了解人类对生态系统的影响。培训年轻科学家在广泛和合成上进行思考对于实现这种更深入的理解很重要。这个研讨会将为二十四名年轻科学家互相互动及其高级同事提供机会。目的是通过建立以前的工作并将许多观点聚集在一起以探索新的边界来改善和扩大生态和进化的思想。这些新想法将与科学界和公众广泛分享。研讨会的结果将是几个高影响力出版物，展示了生态学和进化中一些最令人兴奋的新思想。它还将使一群年轻的科学家（来自代表性不足的群体的许多年轻科学家）在环境科学成功的途径上。生态和生物学计量学理论框架将能量和多个化学元素的质量平衡应用于生物组织的多个尺度的磁通量，并将其整合到进化框架中。 拟议的以产品为中心的事件伍德斯托奇4研讨会的愿景是通过改善和扩大化学计量理论的使用来增强早期职业科学家的能力。拟议的研讨会将通过鼓励开放对话和严格交流思想和方法之间的刺激创新，这些早期职业科学家的工作方式并未被传统，长期存在的习惯或专业义务锁定在适当的位置。以产品为重点的研讨会框架中的关键概念包括选择一些早期职业博士后研究人员或具有创新的化学计量愿景的一年级助理教授，这些愿景是由其他早期职业研究人员组成的工作组，以阐明由手稿的形式阐明，这些愿景是快速且严格地易于出版的，以供出版。参与者将不仅基于他们的纪律重点和成就申请和选择，而且还融合了对小组创造性至关重要的多样性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的评估来通过评估来支持的。