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

研讨会：生物基础设施可持续性策略，将于 2010 年秋季在华盛顿特区举行。

• 批准号: 1047650
• 负责人: Clifford Duke
• 金额: $ 6.5万
• 依托单位: Ecological Society of America
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1047650&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Strategies; Sustainability; Biological; Infrastructure

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.

美国生态学会获得一笔赠款，用于举办一个题为“生物基础设施可持续性战略”的讲习班，将基础设施各部门的管理人员聚集在一起，开始制定可持续性战略。本次研讨会将开始一系列对话，旨在为生物基础设施的资助者、管理者和用户提供指导，以确保长期的可持续性。此外，这一开端将立即有助于创造一种环境，以便坦率地讨论所涉问题，并找出所代表的各种基础结构形式和项目之间的共同点和方法上的重要差异。这种努力对于开发商和供资者将可持续性纳入基础设施发展的最终目标至关重要。研讨会力求明确界定这一问题，包括：确定与各种基础设施形式有关的运营成本类型，以及这些成本与改进、开发和培训成本分开的难易程度;描述基础设施成功的衡量标准;以及确定对此类设施持续可用性的威胁。讲习班参加者还将为以后的讲习班的结构提出建议，包括各研究界应处理的问题、参与进行中的发展项目者的作用以及基础设施使用者的作用，讲习班的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，可确保不同基础设施形式的可持续性。然而，规划是分散的，主要是具体项目的内部，公共对话仅限于各种报告中的简短讨论。本次研讨会旨在将这一对话带到前台，从基础设施项目的经理开始，然后为开发人员和用户之间的后续讨论指明方向。目标是制定一项战略，以制定解决方案，加强生物基础设施的健康和研究企业的长期可持续性。关于讲习班的更多信息，请访问欧空局网站http://www.esa.org/science_resources/programs/advancing_ecological_science.php。