Support for a Geological Society of America's Penrose Conference Entitled "Linking Spatial and Temporal Scales in Paleoecology and Ecology," May 1998, Annapolis, Maryland

支持美国地质学会彭罗斯会议，题为“古生态学和生态学中的空间和时间尺度的联系”，1998 年 5 月，马里兰州安纳波利斯

• 批准号: 9729032
• 负责人: Andrew Cohen
• 金额: $ 1.8万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-12-15 至 1998-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9729032&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Geological; Society; America; Penrose

9729032 Cohen This proposal provides a rationale for partial funding from the National Science Foundation in support of a Penrose conference entitled "Linking spatial and temporal scales in paleoecology and ecology". The Penrose conference series is the primary research conference series of the Geological Society of America (GSA). Because of its interdisciplinary nature, this conference is being cosponsored by the Ecological Society of America (ESA) and the Paleontological Society (PS). Here we provide a rationale for NSF funding, which will be used to cover travel and conference costs for key U.S. and international speakers, and to allow for increased graduate student participation. The idea for holding this meeting arose out of long-standing discussions among the conveners concerning the need to increase communication between paleoecologists and ecologists. Long standing splits in departmental affiliation (geology vs. organismal biology), professional society affiliation and training have hampered communication channels between the two disciplines. However the need for such an informational exchange and synthesis has become greater than ever as a result of cross-cutting societal problems such as impending global climate change and loss of biodiversity that will depend on information input from both fields. Through the use of brief formal introductory talks, followed by extensive periods for poster sessions, panel discussions and open workshops we hope to achieve a synthesis of how the two disciplines can interact more effectively in the future. We have two goals for the conference support funding we request from NSF. First, we want to insure that outstanding scientists who share our goals of interdisciplinary synthesis are well represented at the conference. Second, we want to promote this goal in the upcoming generation of graduate students in ecology and paleoecology, by providing them with cross disciplinary contacts early in their careers and breaking down traditional cross -disciplinary barriers that often make this leap more difficult later in one's career.

这一提议为美国国家科学基金会提供了部分资金支持彭罗斯会议的理由，该会议的主题是“连接古生态学和生态学的时空尺度”。彭罗斯会议系列是美国地质学会（GSA）的主要研究会议系列。由于其跨学科性质，本次会议由美国生态学会（ESA）和古生物学会（PS）共同主办。在这里，我们提供了NSF资助的基本原理，这笔资金将用于支付美国和国际主要演讲者的旅行和会议费用，并允许增加研究生的参与。召开这次会议的想法产生于召集人之间关于需要加强古生态学家和生态学家之间交流的长期讨论。长期存在的院系关系（地质学与有机生物学）、专业学会关系和培训方面的分歧阻碍了两个学科之间的沟通渠道。然而，由于即将发生的全球气候变化和生物多样性丧失等交叉社会问题将取决于这两个领域的信息输入，对这种信息交流和综合的需求比以往任何时候都更加迫切。通过使用简短的正式介绍，随后是广泛的海报会议，小组讨论和公开研讨会，我们希望能够综合这两个学科如何在未来更有效地互动。我们向NSF申请的会议支持资金有两个目标。首先，我们希望确保那些与我们有着共同跨学科综合目标的杰出科学家在会议上得到充分的代表。其次，我们希望在即将到来的一代生态学和古生态学研究生中促进这一目标，通过在他们职业生涯的早期为他们提供跨学科的接触，打破传统的跨学科障碍，这些障碍通常会使他们在职业生涯的后期更难实现这一飞跃。