WORKSHOP: UINTAS 2006--The Uinta Interdisciplinary Assessment Symposium

研讨会：UINTAS 2006--Uinta跨学科评估研讨会

• 批准号: 0613065
• 负责人: Jeffrey Munroe
• 金额: $ 0.7万
• 依托单位: Middlebury College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-01 至 2008-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0613065&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WORKSHOP; UINTAS; 2006; Uinta; Interdisciplinary

WORKSHOP: UINTAS 2006"The Uinta Interdisciplinary Assessment SymposiumThis proposal seeks funding for partial support of a conference focused on Earth system science inthe Uinta Mountains of northeastern Utah. The Uinta Mountains are a fascinating natural laboratoryfor the study of Quaternary climate changes, landscape evolution, and geoecology. The mountainrange contains a federally designated wilderness area spanning nearly half a million acres, and isadministered by three different National Forests. Over the past decade, numerous academicresearchers have forged innovative collaborations with land managers working on these NationalForests, which have greatly improved our understanding of previously overlooked aspects of theUinta land system. This work began in the mid-1990s with a dedicated program of geomorphicmapping that formed the basis of a Forest Service land systems inventory. From that starting point,research has expanded in a multitude of directions, encompassing topics as diverse as Quaternarygeochronology, periglacial landscape evolution, paleolimnology, post-glacial climate changes,treeline fluctuations, fluvial geomorphology, and forest ecology. The addition of new researchersand the establishment of new research programs have been particularly rapid over the past five years,with the result that more than a dozen academic scientists are actively pursuing funded research inthe range, including two multi-year projects supported by the National Science Foundation. Theresults of this work have been presented in more than 10 peer-reviewed papers, and haveconsiderable relevance to ongoing studies elsewhere in the central Rocky Mountains.Intellectual Merit: The vibrant nature and breadth of current research in the Uintas is exciting andpresents considerable potential for interdisciplinary collaboration. However, the large number ofresearchers focused on so many varied topics is inhibiting the efficient communication of researchgoals and results necessary for the development of future collaborations. This is not the fault of anyindividual research group, but rather the inevitable outcome of an increasingly specialized scientificcommunity in which researchers with different interests attend different meetings and followdifferent literature. As a result, the great potential for innovative interdisciplinary research in theUintas will remain unrealized until these artificial barriers between disciplines are overcome androbust connections can be made between research groups with complementary interests.The weekend conference described in this proposal, UINTAS 2006"The Uinta InterdisciplinaryAssessment Symposium, will address this situation by greatly enhancing communication betweenthe academic research groups currently active in the Uintas. Through presentation of researchoverviews and results, and focused planning sessions, a foundation will be constructed for the nextgeneration of innovative, interdisciplinary, projects. The conference will also highlight ways tobetter connect academic research with the needs of land managers to ensure that the history offruitful collaboration between academe and the Forest Service will be maintained.Broader Impacts: The concept for this conference has met with great enthusiasm from the researchcommunity currently active in the Uintas, and from the U.S. Forest Service, which is providing themajority of the funding. Forest Service land managers are particularly excited about the potential forthis conference to become a model for how government land management agencies may bettercoordinate their needs with the interests of academic researchers. As such, this conference has greatpotential for impacts beyond the community of researchers currently focused on the Uintas.Furthermore, it is expected that approximately 16 presentations will be made on aspects of Earthsystem science in the Uintas at the conference. These presentations will be collected and publishedas a special issue of the journal Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, ensuring that the conferencepresentations, and the results obtained to date by the different research groups, will be readilyavailable to the broader scientific community.

研讨会：UINTAS 2006“Uinta跨学科评估研讨会该提案寻求资金，以部分支持在犹他州东北部的Uinta山脉举行的一次重点讨论地球系统科学的会议。尤因塔山脉是一个迷人的自然实验室，用于研究第四纪气候变化，景观演变和地质生态学。该山脉包含一个联邦指定的荒野区，占地近50万英亩，由三个不同的国家森林管理。在过去的十年中，许多学术研究人员与这些国家森林的土地管理者建立了创新的合作关系，这大大提高了我们对以前被忽视的乌塔土地系统方面的理解。这项工作始于20世纪90年代中期，当时有一个专门的地貌制图计划，该计划构成了林务局土地系统清单的基础。从这一点出发，研究已扩展到多个方向，包括不同的主题，如第四纪地质年代学，冰缘景观演变，古湖沼学，冰后期气候变化，树线波动，河流地貌学和森林生态学。在过去的五年里，新研究人员的增加和新研究计划的建立特别迅速，结果是十几位学术科学家正在积极寻求该领域的资助研究，包括国家科学基金会支持的两个多年期项目。这项工作的结果已经在10多篇同行评议的论文中提出，并与落基山脉中部其他地方正在进行的研究具有相当大的相关性。智力优势：Uintas目前研究的充满活力的性质和广度令人兴奋，并为跨学科合作提供了相当大的潜力。然而，大量的研究人员集中在这么多不同的主题是抑制有效的研究目标和结果的沟通，必要的发展未来的合作。这不是任何一个研究小组的错，而是一个日益专业化的科学共同体的必然结果，在这个共同体中，不同兴趣的研究人员参加不同的会议，研究不同的文献。因此，除非克服学科之间的人为障碍，并在具有互补兴趣的研究小组之间建立联系，否则UINTAS创新跨学科研究的巨大潜力将无法实现。将通过大大加强目前活跃在Uintas的学术研究小组之间的沟通来解决这种情况。通过介绍研究概述和结果，以及重点规划会议，将为下一代创新，跨学科项目奠定基础。会议还将强调如何更好地将学术研究与土地管理者的需求联系起来，以确保农业部与林务局之间卓有成效的合作历史得以保持。更广泛的影响：本次会议的概念受到了目前活跃在Uintas的研究界以及提供大部分资金的美国林务局的极大热情。林务局的土地管理人员对这次会议的潜力感到特别兴奋，因为它将成为政府土地管理机构如何更好地协调其需求与学术研究人员利益的典范。因此，本次会议具有巨大的潜力，其影响力将超越目前专注于Uintas的研究人员群体。此外，预计将在会议上就Uintas地球系统科学的各个方面进行大约16次演讲。这些报告将被收集起来，并作为《北极、南极和阿尔卑斯研究》杂志的特刊出版，以确保会议报告以及不同研究小组迄今为止获得的结果能够方便地提供给更广泛的科学界。