Living on Earth: Alaska NSF EPSCoR Social-Ecological Systems Workshop

schweitzer: University of Alaska ？社会生态系统（SES）被广泛定义为一个由相互作用和相互依赖的物理、生物和社会组成的系统，特别强调人类与自然的相互作用。作为世界？随着全球气候的变化，以及这些日益加剧的变化对人口的影响越来越大，对社会生态系统（SES）进行协调分析的必要性日益增强。这种动态在阿拉斯加尤其明显，但随着人口变化和气候变化的结合，在连接人类和自然系统的复杂关系网络中产生了变化，这种动态在美国各地也存在。日益紧迫的形势要求我们更加注重将生物、物理和社会科学纳入社会科学模型的方法和手段。阿拉斯加EPSCoR社会生态系统研讨会将为实现这一目标提供一个理想的平台。SES研讨会将于2009年5月在安克雷奇举行，其目标是使EPSCoR各司法管辖区能够分享有关SES问题的信息，包括政策和研究事项；为跨司法管辖区的社会科学研究项目物色范畴，以提高拨款竞争力；并考虑研究人员、决策者和管理者之间的合作和拓展策略。知识价值：研讨会演讲者将讨论社会生态系统中新兴的科学创新，重点介绍该领域可用的新研究工具。由于SES仍然是一个新兴的领域，研讨会将潜在地对SES研究产生变革性的影响。该研讨会是专门为建立NSF EPSCoR研究人员和司法管辖区之间的合作而设计的，从而加强了国家？美国的研究能力。更广泛的影响：SES研究本质上是跨学科的，研讨会将包括来自各个科学领域的研究人员。它还将大量涉及社会经济地位研究的政策和管理方面，不仅可能影响社会经济地位研究人员如何进行，而且可能影响他们的发现如何被利用和实施。演讲者将强调通过基于社区的研究进行STEM教育推广和劳动力发展的机会。在研究特定人口时，社会经济体系本身就涉及多样性问题，讲习班将处理这个意义上的多样性问题，并处理增加代表性不足的群体参与社会经济体系研究的问题。

EPS-0934783Schweitzer: University of Alaska ? Fairbanks A Social-Ecological System (SES) is broadly defined as a system with interacting and interdependent physical, biological and social components, with a special emphasis on human interactions with nature. As the world?s climate changes, and these intensifying changes increasingly hold ramifications for human populations, the need for concerted analysis of social-ecological systems (SES) is intensified. Such dynamics are especially pronounced in Alaska, but are also present throughout the United States as population shifts and climate changes combine to produce changes in the intricate web of relationships that link human and natural systems. The increasing urgency of the situation calls for a sharper focus on the methods and means of integrating biological, physical, and social sciences into SES models. The Alaska EPSCoR Social-Ecological Systems Workshop will provide an ideal platform from which to accomplish this. The goals of the SES workshop, to be held in Anchorage in May, 2009, are to enable information-sharing across EPSCoR jurisdictions about SES issues, including both policy and research matters; to identify areas for cross-jurisdictional SES research projects, which will improve funding competitiveness; and to consider collaboration and outreach strategies among researchers, policy-makers, and managers.Intellectual merit: Workshop speakers will discourse on emerging scientific innovations in social-ecological systems, highlighting new research tools available in the field. As SES is still an emergent field, the workshop will potentially have a transformative effect on SES study. The workshop is specifically designed to build collaborations among NSF EPSCoR researchers and jurisdictions, thereby strengthening the nation?s research capacity.Broader impact: SES study is by its nature interdisciplinary, and the workshop will include researchers from across the scientific spectrum. It will also heavily involve the policy and management side of SES study, potentially impacting not just how SES researchers proceed but how their findings are utilized and implemented. Speakers will highlight opportunities for STEM educational outreach and workforce development through community-based research. In its study of specific populations SES is inherently concerned with diversity issues, and the workshop will deal with diversity in this sense as well as by tackling the issue of increasing the participation of underrepresented groups in SES research.