Dimensions of Biodiversity Distributed Graduate Seminar

分布式研究生研讨会是通过研究和教育的整合来推进科学的创新方法。生物多样性的维度分布式研究生研讨会（DBDGS）的重点是增加有关生物多样性的知识。DBDGS将包括15-20个大学团队，与四大洲的国际合作伙伴，以及从解决生物多样性科学所需的广泛学科中选出的100多名学生（例如，生物学、生物物理学、经济学、人类学、计算机科学和健康）。DBDGS的科学目标包括建立一个关于全球一级生物多样性的分类、遗传和功能方面的知识状况的在线数据库，并对生物多样性的这些方面和其他方面的整合进行综合审查，为今后的研究和发现建立一个框架。这个DBDGS将通过其对研究生社区的关注，在国内和国际上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个激烈的团队驱动的多学科研究经验，这可能是在未来的生物多样性研究的重要。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的科学职业道路。DBDGS将促进青年科学家之间的国际合作。研讨会的产品将引起广泛的研究人员的兴趣，并将包括开放获取数据库，学生主导的出版物，以及在美国生态学会年会上突出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.