Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for FY2001

这一行动为NSF 2001财年生物信息学博士后研究奖学金提供了资金。该奖学金支持生物学与信息科学、计算科学、数学科学和统计科学交叉的博士后水平的研究和培训。该研究金的目标是为一名青年科学家提供培训，为从事生物信息学的职业做准备，在生物信息学中将把研究和教育结合起来。在所有职业层面上，对生物信息学的培训的需求越来越大，预计通过这些奖学金培训的研究员将在未来劳动力的培训中发挥重要作用。该奖学金的研究和培训计划题为“飓风和火灾干扰对南佛罗里达湿地松种群动态的影响建模”。火灾和飓风是影响美国东南部松林群落结构和动态的频繁干扰。这项研究正在开发空间上明确的、基于个体的松树种群动态模型，该模型根据包括飓风和火灾干扰在内的经验数据进行参数化。这些模型将被用来预测松树种群将如何对与全球变化相关的假设干扰制度做出反应。

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for FY2001. The fellowship supports research and training at the postdoctoral level at the intersection of biology and the informational, computational, mathematical, and statistical sciences. The goal of the fellowship is to provide training to a young scientist in preparation for a career in biological informatics in which research and education will be integrated. There is an increasing need for training in biological informatics at all occupational levels, and it is expected that Fellows trained through these fellowships will play important roles in training of the future workforce.The research and training plan for this fellowship is entitled "Modeling the Effects of Hurricane and Fire Disturbances on the Population Dynamics of South Florida Slash Pine." Fires and hurricanes are frequent disturbances affecting community structure and dynamics of pine forests in the southeastern US. This research is developing spatially explicit, individual-based models of pine population dynamics, parameterized from empirical data that include hurricane and fire disturbances. The models are to be used to predict how pine populations will respond to hypothetical disturbance regimes associated with global change.