Workshop: Strategies for Sustainability of Biological Infrastructure, to be held in Washington, DC in Fall 2010.

美国生态学会获得了一笔赠款，用于举办一个名为“生物基础设施可持续发展战略”的研讨会，将各种基础设施形式的管理人员聚集在一起，开始制定可持续发展战略。该研讨会将开始一系列对话，旨在为生物基础设施的资助者、管理者和使用者提供指导，以确保长期可持续性。此外，这一开端将立即有益于创造一种环境，以便坦率地讨论所涉及的问题，并找出所代表的各种基础设施形式和项目在方法上的共同点和重要差异。这种努力对于开发商和资助者将可持续发展纳入基础设施发展的最终目标至关重要。讲习班力求明确界定问题，包括：确定与各种基础设施形式相关的业务成本类型，以及将这些成本与改进、开发和培训成本区分开来的容易程度；描述基础设施成功的衡量标准；以及确定此类设施持续可用的威胁。讲习班参加者还将为以后的讲习班制定结构建议，包括各个研究界要解决的问题、参与正在进行的开发项目的人的作用以及基础设施使用者的作用。讲习班的更广泛影响与其对加强研究基础设施的贡献有关。目前，存在多种可能的模式，可以确保不同基础设施形式的可持续性。然而，规划是支离破碎的，而且主要是具体项目的内部规划，公众对话仅限于各种报告中的简短讨论。本研讨会旨在将这一对话放在首位，从基础设施项目的经理开始，然后为随后与开发人员和用户以及开发人员和用户之间的讨论指明方向。目标是制定解决方案的战略，加强生物基础设施的健康和研究企业的长期可持续性。欲了解更多有关研讨会的信息，请访问欧空局网站：http://www.esa.org/science_resources/programs/advancing_ecological_science.php.

The Ecological Society of America is awarded a grant to convene a workshop, "Strategies for Sustainability of Biological Infrastructure" to bring together managers of a cross-section of infrastructure forms to begin developing strategies for sustainability. This workshop will begin a series of conversations aimed at providing guidance for funders, managers, and users of biological infrastructure to ensure long-term sustainability. Further, this beginning will have immediate utility in creating an environment for frank discussion of the issues involved and in locating both common ground and important differences in approach among the various infrastructure forms and projects represented. Such an effort is critical to the ultimate goal of integrating sustainability into infrastructure development on the part of both developers and funders. The workshop seeks to clearly define the problem, including: identifying types of operational costs associated with various infrastructure forms and how easily those costs can be separated from costs for improvement, development and training; describing metrics of success for infrastructure facilities; and identifying threats to the continued availability of such facilities. Workshop participants will also develop recommendations for structures for subsequent workshops, including issues to be addressed in various research communities, the roles of those involved in ongoing development projects, and the roles of infrastructure users.The broader impacts of the workshop are associated with its contribution to the enhancement of research infrastructure. At present, multiple possible models exist that might ensure sustainability of different infrastructure forms. However, planning is fragmented and largely internal to specific projects, with the public conversation limited to brief discussions in various reports. This workshop seeks to bring this conversation to the fore, beginning with managers of infrastructure projects and then pointing the way toward subsequent discussions with and among developers and users. The goal is a strategy for developing solutions, enhancing the health of biological infrastructure and the long-term sustainability of the research enterprise. For more information about the workshop, please visit ESA's website at http://www.esa.org/science_resources/programs/advancing_ecological_science.php.