NCEAS: National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

NCEAS：国家生态分析与综合中心

• 批准号: 0553768
• 负责人: Frank Davis
• 金额: $ 1840.26万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-10-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0553768&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NCEAS; National; Center; Ecological; Analysis

The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) was established at the University of California at Santa Barbara to promote interactions between scientists and facilitate the use of existing information to address important ecological questions. This award will renew NCEAS in Santa Barbara for an additional five years. NCEAS has six goals: (1) To develop opportunities that accelerate and initiate paradigms shifts, (2) To provide a facility where scientists analyze and synthesize existing ecological information using creative approaches, (3) To maintain an international character and broad perspective in all of its activities, (4) To enable and enhance the delivery of well-documented, digital information and scientific results to environmental scientists, natural resource managers, and policy makers, (5) To provide an environment that fosters intellectual exchange and collaboration, and (6) To develop and implement a more comprehensive strategy for education and outreach. An emphasis on broadening participation will focus the strengths of the center on a more active recruitment of underrepresented groups into all NCEAS activities. NCEAS addresses its goals through three primary modes: Working Groups, Postdoctoral Associates, and Sabbatical Fellows. Students are supported directly, as well as through participation in Distributed (virtual) Graduate Seminars. The NCEAS model for collaboration has been particularly successful promoting interdisciplinary syntheses that bring together people who have not collaborated before to focus on novel questions and approaches. Broader impacts of NCEAS include making more potential users aware of opportunities at NCEAS, informing the general public about its activities and results, engaging the local student community and maintaining a bilingual "Kids Do Ecology" website as part of NCEAS's K-12 education program, expanding training in the use of emerging ecological informatics tools, emphasizing graduate student involvement in all its functions, and more fully engaging social scientists.NCEAS is a national center for ecological informatics, utilizing core support primarily to provide premier computational support to its Postdoctoral Associates, Sabbatical Fellows, and Working Groups. It has been highly successful leveraging support for developing technology to massively increase capabilities to discover, access, integrate, analyze, synthesize and preserve existing data by building new capabilities in ecology and allied disciplines that advance the general community-wide information technology capabilities over the longer-term.

加州大学圣巴巴拉分校成立了国家生态分析与综合中心(NCEAS)，以促进科学家之间的互动，并促进利用现有信息来解决重要的生态问题。该奖项将把圣巴巴拉的NCEAS再延长五年。NCEAS有六个目标：(1)开发加速和启动范式转变的机会；(2)提供一个设施，供科学家使用创造性的方法分析和综合现有的生态信息；(3)在其所有活动中保持国际性和广阔的视角；(4)支持和加强向环境科学家、自然资源管理者和政策制定者提供有充分记录的数字信息和科学成果；(5)提供促进智力交流与合作的环境；以及(6)制定和实施更全面的教育和外联战略。对扩大参与的重视将使中心的优势集中在更积极地招募代表不足的群体参加所有NCEAS活动。NCEAS通过三种主要模式实现其目标：工作组、博士后助理和休假研究员。学生可以直接获得支持，也可以通过参加分布的(虚拟的)研究生研讨会获得支持。NCEAS的协作模式特别成功地促进了跨学科综合，将以前没有合作过的人聚集在一起，专注于新的问题和方法。NCEAS的更广泛影响包括让更多的潜在用户了解NCEAS的机会，向公众通报其活动和结果，吸引当地学生社区参与，并作为NCEAS K-12教育计划的一部分保持一个双语的“儿童生态学”网站，扩大新兴生态信息学工具的使用培训，强调研究生参与其所有职能，并更充分地参与社会科学家的参与。NCEAS是一个国家生态信息学中心，利用核心支持主要为其博士后助理、休学研究员和工作组提供主要的计算支持。它一直非常成功地利用对开发技术的支持，通过在生态和相关学科方面建立新的能力，大幅提高发现、访问、集成、分析、合成和保存现有数据的能力，从而在较长期内促进一般社区范围的信息技术能力。