Dimensions of Biodiversity Distributed Graduate Seminar

分布式研究生研讨会是一种创新的方法，通过整合研究和教育来推进科学。生物多样性的维度分布研究生研讨会（DBDGS）侧重于增加生物多样性的知识。DBDGS将包括15-20个大学团队，与四大洲的国际伙伴合作，以及从研究生物多样性科学所需的广泛学科（如生物学、地球物理学、经济学、人类学、计算机科学和卫生）中选出的100多名学生。DBDGS的科学目标包括在全球范围内建立一个关于生物多样性分类、遗传和功能维度的知识状况的在线数据库，并对这些维度和其他维度的生物多样性进行综合评价，为未来的研究和发现创造一个框架。这个DBDGS将通过其对国内和国际研究生社区的关注，对这一新兴领域产生根本性的影响。分布式研讨会提供了一种强烈的团队驱动的多学科研究经验，这可能对未来的生物多样性研究很重要。由于核心团队成员代表学术和非政府组织机构，研究生也将接触到一系列科学职业道路。DBDGS将促进青年科学家之间的国际合作。研讨会的成果将引起广泛的研究人员的兴趣，包括开放获取的数据库、学生主导的出版物，以及在美国生态学会年会上强调DBDGS研究结果的研讨会。

Distributed Graduate Seminars are an innovative approach to advancing science through an integration of research and education. The Dimensions of Biodiversity Distributed Graduate Seminar (DBDGS) focuses on increasing knowledge about biodiversity. The DBDGS will include 15-20 university teams, with international partners on four continents, and more than 100 students chosen from a wide range of disciplines needed to address biodiversity science (e.g., biology, geophysics, economics, anthropology, computer science and health). The scientific goals of the DBDGS include production of an on-line database of the state of knowledge about the taxonomic, genetic, and functional dimensions of biodiversity at the global level and a synthetic review on the integration of these and other dimensions of biodiversity to create a framework for future research and discovery. This DBDGS will have a fundamental impact on this emerging field through its focus on the graduate student community, both nationally and internationally. Distributed seminars provide an intense team-driven multi-disciplinary research experience that is likely to be important in future biodiversity research. Because Core Team members represent both academic and non-governmental organization institutions, graduate students will also be exposed to a range of scientific career pathways. The DBDGS will foster international collaboration among young scientists. Products of the seminar will be of interest to a broad range of researchers and will include open-access databases, student-led publications, and a symposium highlighting DBDGS findings at the Ecological Society of America annual meeting.