Macrosystems Biology and NEON enabled science investigator meeting

宏观系统生物学和 NEON 促成科学研究人员会议

• 批准号: 2022791
• 负责人: Sydne Record
• 金额: $ 9.98万
• 依托单位: Bryn Mawr College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-05-01 至 2022-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2022791&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Macrosystems; Biology; NEON; enabled; science

Today, pressing environmental problems, such as climate change, use of water resources, and food security abound. It is important for society to understand these environmental issues because they impact natural resources needed to sustain life on Earth. One of the biggest challenges in gaining knowledge about how the non-living and living world works is that most research in environmental science has been done at small, local scales, but many current environmental issues operate at regional, continental, and global scales. Thus, scaling up environmental research across space is vital. Macrosystems biology seeks to understand research on biosphere processes and their complex interactions with climate, land use, and changes in species geographic distributions at regional to continental scales. Such large-scale scientific research demands a collaborative team of scientists, including individuals with the ability to integrate across disciplinary and cultural differences, so that insights made are of the highest scientific quality and are socially equitable. Given the collaborative nature of macrosystems biology, advances in this field are made through shared knowledge of the science and of how to promote productive, diverse teams. This meeting will promote knowledge sharing by providing an opportunity for researchers to share insights into macrosystems biology advances and into team science. Through professional development and engagement of a diverse group of scientists, collaboration of active researchers, and generation of new ideas and synthesis of research projects, this meeting will broaden the impact of currently funded Macrosystems biology research. Specific efforts will be made to emphasize perspectives of early-career and traditionally under-represented researchers in all aspects of the workshop.This conference proposal will support a meeting of project scientists funded through the NSF Macrosystems Biology and National Ecological Observatory Network Enabled Science (MSB-NES) program. The meeting’s theme will be team science with emphases on inclusion and access. The meeting will advance macrosystems biology and NEON enabled science through four goals: 1) facilitating networking and community-building among a diverse group of MSB-NES researchers; 2) reflect on the first ten years of MSB research and outline knowledge gaps to be addressed in the next decade; 3) providing training on team science in a diverse landscape for MSB-NES researchers that will help teams to successfully broaden participation; and 4) identifying aspects of team science that promote open science and inclusion to make accessible insights from MSB-NES research teams to a wide audience.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.

如今，紧迫的环境问题，例如气候变化，水资源的使用和粮食安全。对于社会而言，了解这些环境问题很重要，因为它们会影响维持地球生命所需的自然资源。获得有关非生活和生活世界如何运作的知识的最大挑战之一是，大多数环境科学研究都是在小型的本地规模上完成的，但是许多当前的环境问题在区域，连续和全球范围内都可以运作。这是至关重要的。大型系统生物学试图了解生物圈过程的研究及其与气候，土地使用以及区域区域与连续尺度的物种地理分布变化的复杂相互作用。如此大规模的科学研究要求一个合作的科学家团队，包括具有跨学科和文化差异融合的人，以便洞察力是由最高科学质量构成的，并且在社会上是公平的。鉴于宏观系统生物学的协作性质，该领域的进步是通过对科学的共同知识和如何推广产品，潜水团队进行的。这次会议将通过为研究人员提供对宏观系统生物学进步和团队科学的见解的机会来促进知识共享。通过专业发展和参与一群科学家的群体，积极研究人员的合作以及新思想的生成和研究项目的综合，这次会议将扩大当前资助的宏观系统生物学研究的影响。将做出具体的努力，以强调讲习班各个方面的早期职业和传统代表性不足的研究人员的观点。这项会议建议将支持通过NSF宏观系统生物学和国家生态观测网络网络科学（MSB-NES）计划资助的项目科学家会议。会议的主题将是团队科学，重点是包容和访问。这次会议将通过四个目标推进宏观系统生物学，并通过霓虹灯促进科学：1）支持MSB-NES研究人员的潜水者组中的网络和社区建设； 2）反思MSB研究的头十年和概述未来十年要解决的知识差距； 3）为MSB-NES研究人员提供有关潜水员景观的团队科学培训，这将帮助团队成功扩大参与； 4）确定团队科学的各个方面，这些方面促进开放科学和包容性，以从MSB-NES研究团队到广泛的受众提供可访问的见解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务。