Coordination Meeting on Observing Systems for Environmental Solutions

将举办一次讲习班，召集著名科学家，就国家科学基金资助或提议资助的科学观测系统之间的协同作用以及这种协同作用和这些系统应对国家研究理事会确定的重大环境挑战的能力提出建议。 与会者将探讨NSF新兴和当前观测系统在应对这些挑战方面的拟议和潜在价值。 至关重要的是，查明随着观测系统的部署而将继续存在或变得更加重要的知识差距，以及这可能如何影响非观测系统科学的作用。 特别重要的是查明观测系统之间和系统内部的协同作用以及系统的互操作性要求。 预期的智力影响将是确定新兴的前沿，未实现的研究机会，以及独特的基础设施能力，从综合环境研究观测系统和网络。 讲习班将通过确定观测系统在解决与社会有关的环境问题方面的潜力而产生广泛的影响。 此外，通过为AC-ERE、NSF和更广泛的社区制定一套建议，由此产生的报告将有助于观测系统的规划、筹资、实施、协调和使用。

A workshop will be held to bring together noted scientists to provide recommendations on the synergy among scientific observing systems funded or proposed for funding by NSF, and the ability of that synergy, and those systems, to address grand environmental challenges identified by the National Research Council. The participants will explore the proposed and potential value of NSF nascent and current observing systems to address these challenges. Of critical importance will be the identification of gaps in knowledge that will remain or become more critical as observing systems are deployed, and how this may affect the role of non-observing system science. Of particular importance will be the identification of synergies among and withinobserving systems and system requirements for inter-operability. The anticipated intellectual impact will be the identification of emergent frontiers, unrealized research opportunities, and unique infrastructure capacity that arise from the combined environmental research observing systems and networks. The workshop will have broad impacts by defining the potential of observing systems to generate solutions to environmental problems relevant to society. In addition, the resulting reports will contribute to the planning, funding, implementation, coordination, and use of the observing systems through formulating a set of recommendations for the AC-ERE, NSF, and the wider community.