Workshop: Engineering & Biology at the Frontier of Environmental and Organismal Sensing' Fall, 2014, Washington, D.C.

加州大学戴维斯分校获得一项奖励，邀请来自学术界、工业界和政府机构的工程师和生物学家举办研讨会。使用非常小的自动传感设备监测自由生活的野生生物的能力将彻底改变我们对动物运动模式和它们对环境线索（如捕食者和天气）的生理反应的理解。在监测动物的同时，让调查人员保持一定距离，确保对动物行为的干扰最小。尽管存在许多传感设备技术，但生物学家和工程师之间的合作不足目前限制了许多紧迫生物学问题的新解决方案的发展。本次研讨会的参与者将在各学科之间开展对话，以产生新的、变革性的技术，用于监测其环境中的生物体。行业代表的加入将有助于解决原型开发和生产之间往往致命的差距。在华盛顿特区举办研讨会将允许以华盛顿为基础的部门、机构和基金会以观察员的身份参加，这些部门、机构和基金会正在促进和资助多学科项目，并考虑他们能够实现生产解决方案的方法。该研讨会旨在直接或间接地影响科学、教育、工业、政府和社会的广泛领域。新技术的开发、生产和应用将为我们了解全球气候变化、生物学（具有潜在的生物医学应用）以及数据采集和传输提供强大的新工具。工程师和生物学家之间的紧密合作可能会产生许多技术，这些技术非常适合用于K-12，大学和公民基于计算机的学习，允许参与者近乎实时地跟踪动物及其环境。其他政府机构的需求，如国土安全部、美国国家航空航天局和国防部，可能会与学术界和私营实体的需求重叠，并由研讨会解决。

An award is made to the University of California Davis to host a workshop with engineers and biologists from academia, industry, and government agencies. The ability to monitor free-living, wild organisms using very small, automated sensing devices will revolutionize our understanding of animal movement patterns and their physiological responses to environmental cues such as predators and weather. Monitoring animals while keeping investigators at a distance ensures minimal interference with the animals' behavior. Although many sensing-device technologies exist, insufficient collaboration between biologists and engineers currently limits development of novel solutions to many pressing biological questions. Participants in this workshop will develop a dialogue between disciplines to generate novel, transformative technologies for the monitoring of organisms in their environments. The inclusion of industry representatives will help address the often fatal gap between prototype development and production. Holding the workshop in Washington, D. C. will allow D.C-based departments, agencies, and foundations that are promoting and funding multi-disciplinary projects to attend as observers and to consider ways in which they could enable production solutions.The workshop is designed to impact, both directly and indirectly, a broad spectrum of science, education, industry, government, and society. Development, production, and application of new technologies will give us powerful new tools for understanding global climate change, biology (with potential biomedical applications), and data capture and conveyance. Many of the technologies likely to result from closer collaborations between engineers and biologists are ideally suited for use in K-12, university, and citizen computer-based learning, allowing participants to track animals and their environments in near real-time. The needs of other governmental institutions, such as Homeland Security, NASA, and the Department of Defense, will likely overlap with those of academics and private entities and be addressed by the workshop.