Fostering effective and sustainable scientific collaboration and knowledge exchange: a workshop-based approach to establish a national ecological observatory network (NEON) domain-specific user group
Fostering effective and sustainable scientific collaboration and knowledge exchange: a workshop-based approach to establish a national ecological observatory network (NEON) domain-specific user group
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促进有效和可持续的科学合作和知识交流：采用基于研讨会的方法建立国家生态观测站网络（NEON）特定领域用户组
DOI：
10.1007/s00484-024-02673-x
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发表时间：
2024
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Ayres, Edward
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作者：
Donnelly, Alison;Desai, Ankur R.;Heckman, Katherine A.;Nave, Lucas E.;Cramer, Michael J.;Faust, Marie;Weishampel, Peter;Slemmons, Caleb;Andresen, Christian G.;Ayres, Edward
建立研究人员网络的决定集中在确定共同的研究目标上。特定的生态区域，如美国国家生态观测网络(NEON)的生态气候领域，是聚集具有不同专业知识但专注于同一组生态挑战的研究人员的理想地点。最近成立的五大湖用户组(GLIG)是霓虹灯的第一个特定领域的研究人员群体，其目标是通过使用霓虹灯数据促进生态系统科学的发展，解决五大湖区域5(D05)特有的科学和技术问题。在这里，我们报道GLIG的启动研讨会，其中包括闪电演讲、主题演讲、突破性头脑风暴会议和实地考察。这些活动共同创造了一个环境，以促进和加强胶水和霓虹灯用户的参与。讲习班取得的切实成果超出了最初的预期，包括计划(I)两篇期刊文章(除这一篇外)、(Ii)两项潜在的供资建议、(Iii)可转让资产申请和(Iv)利用霓虹灯数据集开展课堂活动。这项为期两天半的活动之所以取得成功，是一系列因素共同作用的结果，包括确立明确的目标、开展有吸引力的活动以及提供与不同参与者进行积极参与和包容性协作的机会。鉴于这一方法的成功，我们鼓励其他希望组织类似研究人员小组的人采用这里提出的研讨会框架，该框架将加强现有的合作并促进新的合作，同时提高对霓虹灯数据集使用的更大认识和促进。建立特定领域的用户组将有助于弥合站点级别的数据收集与应对区域和更大的生态挑战之间的规模差距。
The decision to establish a network of researchers centers on identifying shared research goals. Ecologically specific regions, such as the USA’s National Ecological Observatory Network’s (NEON’s) eco-climatic domains, are ideal locations by which to assemble researchers with a diverse range of expertise but focused on the same set of ecological challenges. The recently established Great Lakes User Group (GLUG) is NEON’s first domain specific ensemble of researchers, whose goal is to address scientific and technical issues specific to the Great Lakes Domain 5 (D05) by using NEON data to enable advancement of ecosystem science. Here, we report on GLUG’s kick off workshop, which comprised lightning talks, keynote presentations, breakout brainstorming sessions and field site visits. Together, these activities created an environment to foster and strengthen GLUG and NEON user engagement. The tangible outcomes of the workshop exceeded initial expectations and include plans for (i) two journal articles (in addition to this one), (ii) two potential funding proposals, (iii) an assignable assets request and (iv) development of classroom activities using NEON datasets. The success of this 2.5-day event was due to a combination of factors, including establishment of clear objectives, adopting engaging activities and providing opportunities for active participation and inclusive collaboration with diverse participants. Given the success of this approach we encourage others, wanting to organize similar groups of researchers, to adopt the workshop framework presented here which will strengthen existing collaborations and foster new ones, together with raising greater awareness and promotion of use of NEON datasets. Establishing domain specific user groups will help bridge the scale gap between site level data collection and addressing regional and larger ecological challenges.