Collaborative Workshop on the Mission of a National Center for Ecological Synthesis and Analysis; Albuquerque, NM; October 1992

最近的几份报告一致认为， 生态综合与分析中心。 PI将运行 研讨会，由美国生态学会联合主办 和生态系统研究中心协会，以评估和 总结一下生态学家们对这样一个中心的想法。 的 研讨会的目的是抽样广泛的生态学家和 及时向NSF提交总结报告。 主要目标 （1）确定只能或最好的问题类型 由这样一个中心来解决，不可能解决的问题， 在现有机制下很难解决;（2）识别 并评估可能的替代行政结构， 这样的中心。

Several recent reports converge on the need for an National Center for Ecological Synthesis and Analysis. The PIs will run a workshop, sponsored jointly by the Ecological Society of America and the Association of Ecosystem Research Centers, to assess and summarize the ideas of ecologists about such a center. The workshop is designed to sample a broad spectrum of ecologists and deliver a summary report to NSF in timely fashion. Major goals are to (1) identify the kinds of questions that can only or best be addressed by such a center, questions that are impossible or very difficult to solve under extant mechanisms; and (2) identify and assess possible alternative administrative structures for such a center.