Proposal for a Workshop to Make NEON - A Transformational Ecological Resch Program that Robustly Embraces the Human Dimension to be held in Fall 2005, at Harvard U. Harvard Forest

将举办一次讲习班，汇聚致力于人类-环境研究前沿的主要科学家，探讨将人-环境耦合系统明确纳入国家观测网络(如国家生态观测网)的动态生态预报的方法、设计、基础设施和研究机会。研讨会将为社会科学家和生态学家提供一个前所未有的机会，讨论在区域到大陆范围内运作的政策、人类活动和环境条件和过程之间的相互作用所需的协作基础设施。讲习班参与者将开发一个耦合的人类-环境系统框架，为霓虹灯设计提供信息，以探索人体实验，确定相关的社会科学研究，确定社会科学基础设施需求，提供有效的科学-政策-土地管理接口，并确定支持霓虹灯科学预测的信息和模型。预期的智力影响将来自对合作和有力地应对生态预测挑战的机会的讨论，特别是在涉及将人类系统作为霓虹灯设计和实施的一个组成部分的情况下。讲习班将产生广泛的影响，确定社会科学家和机构的主要利益和联系，以利用环境研究观测系统和网络将产生的新兴前沿、研究机会和独特的基础设施能力。此外，由此产生的报告将为生态学家、社会学家和机构发展生态预报能力的观测系统的规划、资金、实施、协调和最终使用提供指导。

A workshop will be held to bring together key scientists working at the cutting edge of human-environment studies to explore the approaches, designs, infrastructure, and research opportunities for explicitly incorporating coupled human-environment systems into dynamical ecological forecasting from national observatory networks such as the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). The workshop will provide an unprecedented opportunity for social scientists and ecologists to discuss the collaborative infrastructure needed to explore the interactions among policy, human activity, and environmental conditions and processes that operate at regional to continental scale. The workshop participants will develop a coupled human-environment system framework to inform the NEON design that explores the human experiment, identifies relevent social science research, identifies social science infrastructure needs, provides an effective science-policy-land management interface, and identifies information and models to support forecasting of NEON science. The anticipated intellectual impact will come from discussions of the opportunities to collaboratively and robustly address ecological forecasting challenges, particularly as it relates to including the human system as an integral part of NEON design and implementation. The workshop will have broad impacts by identifying key interests and linkages of social scientists and agencies that can leverage the emergent frontiers, research opportunities, and unique infrastructure capacity that will arise from the environmental research observing systems and networks. In addition, the resulting reports will provide guidance on the planning, funding, implementation, coordination, and ultimate use of observing systems by ecologists, sociologists, and agencies to develop an ecological forecasting capacity.