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

最近的几份报告集中讨论了建立国家生态综合与分析中心的必要性。PIS将举办一个研讨会，由美国生态学会和生态系统研究中心协会联合主办，以评估和总结生态学家对这样一个中心的想法。该研讨会旨在对广泛的生态学家进行抽样，并及时向国家科学基金会提交一份总结报告。主要目标是(1)确定只能或最好由这样一个中心解决的问题，即在现有机制下不可能或很难解决的问题；(2)确定和评估这样一个中心可能的替代行政结构。

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.