NCEAS: National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

美国国家生态分析与综合中心（NCEAS）是在加州大学圣巴巴拉分校成立的，旨在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。该奖项将使圣巴巴拉的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)为科学家提供一个使用创造性方法分析和综合现有生态信息的设施；(3)在其所有活动中保持国际化特征和广阔的视野；(4)使环境科学家、自然资源管理者和政策制定者能够并加强向环境科学家、自然资源管理者和政策制定者提供记录良好的数字信息和科学成果。(5)提供一个促进知识交流和合作的环境；(6)制定和推行更全面的教育和外展策略。强调扩大参与将使中心的力量集中于更积极地征聘代表人数不足的群体参加非洲经委会的所有活动。NCEAS通过三种主要模式来实现其目标：工作组、博士后助理和休假研究员。学生可以直接获得支持，也可以通过参与分布式（虚拟）研究生研讨会获得支持。NCEAS的合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的广泛影响包括让更多的潜在用户意识到NCEAS的机会，向公众通报其活动和结果，吸引当地学生社区和维护一个双语的“儿童做生态”网站，作为NCEAS K-12教育计划的一部分，扩大使用新兴生态信息学工具的培训，强调研究生参与其所有功能，并更充分地吸引社会科学家。NCEAS是一个国家生态信息学中心，主要利用核心支持为其博士后助理、休假研究员和工作组提供一流的计算支持。它非常成功地利用对开发技术的支持，通过在生态学和相关学科中建立新的能力来大规模提高发现、访问、集成、分析、综合和保存现有数据的能力，从而在长期内推进一般社区范围的信息技术能力。

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.