COLLABORATIVE: WORKSHOP: Identifying and prioritizing research questions for long-term ecological experiments

协作：研讨会：确定长期生态实验的研究问题并确定其优先顺序

• 批准号: 1445578
• 负责人: Mark Bradford
• 金额: $ 5.78万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1445578&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: COLLABORATIVE; WORKSHOP; Identifying; prioritizing; research

The value of data increases as data sets grow longer, as this information can be used to answer new suites of questions that are different from those that originally motivated the data collection. This award supports a three-staged process that will engage early-career researchers to identify new frontiers for the application of long-term data sets, with a particular focus on long-term experiments. The lead investigators propose a unique approach to identifying these questions. Results from their approach will add significant value to ongoing investments in long-term data. They will advance the fields of ecology and ecosystem science by identifying new questions and by encouraging early-career researchers with novel perspectives to play a central role in defining directions for future long-term research activities.Long-term experiments established through research networks or individual researchers provide some of the best illustrations of the value of long-term research, yet the potential applications of these experiments to diverse questions in ecology and evolution remain untapped. The investigators combine three activities to ensure an open and democratic development and prioritization of new research directions. An on-line survey will be used to engage the broad ecological community in identifying research questions uniquely addressed by long-term ecological experiments. Questions will be primarily closed-ended, but a small number of open-ended questions is necessary to ensure a comprehensive assessment of the community's viewpoints. Survey results will be summarized in collaboration with The Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, which delivers and analyzes online surveys to public, governmental, and academic sectors. The second stage of the project is a workshop, held at the Kellogg Biological Station, during which early-career researchers will present their own questions, evaluate and categorize questions from the survey, and use horizon scanning to identify leading questions and the rationale for their importance. A report synthesizing the approach and the leading research questions will be the final stage of the project. This report will first be reviewed by 'opinion leaders,' or senior researchers well established in the area of long-term ecological research. Their comments and critiques will be incorporated as appendices to the workshop report, which will be submitted for publication to a leading ecological journal. The proposed activities - a broad survey, a workshop, and a publication - will identify the next generation of questions that can capitalize on the funds already invested in long-term ecological research.

数据的价值随着数据集的增长而增加，因为这些信息可以用来回答与原始数据收集动机不同的一组新问题。该奖项支持一个分三个阶段的过程，该过程将吸引职业生涯早期的研究人员来确定长期数据集应用的新前沿，特别是长期实验。首席调查人员提出了一种确定这些问题的独特方法。他们方法的结果将为正在进行的长期数据投资增加显著价值。他们将通过发现新的问题并鼓励具有新视角的早期研究人员在确定未来长期研究活动的方向方面发挥核心作用，从而推动生态学和生态系统科学领域的发展。通过研究网络或研究人员个人建立的长期实验提供了一些对长期研究价值的最佳例证，但这些实验对生态学和进化中各种问题的潜在应用仍未开发。调查人员将三项活动结合起来，以确保公开和民主地制定新的研究方向并确定优先顺序。将使用在线调查来吸引广泛的生态社区，以确定长期生态实验独特解决的研究问题。问题将主要是封闭式的，但有少量开放式问题是必要的，以确保对社会观点进行全面评估。调查结果将与耶鲁气候变化传播项目合作汇总，该项目向公共、政府和学术部门提供在线调查并进行分析。该项目的第二阶段是在凯洛格生物站举办的研讨会，在此期间，职业早期研究人员将提出他们自己的问题，评估调查中的问题并对问题进行分类，并使用水平扫描来确定领先问题及其重要性的理由。该项目的最后阶段将是一份综合了该方法和主要研究问题的报告。这份报告将首先由“意见领袖”或在长期生态研究领域有良好地位的资深研究人员审查。他们的评论和批评将被纳入研讨会报告的附录，该报告将提交给一家领先的生态杂志发表。拟议的活动--一项广泛的调查、一次研讨会和一份出版物--将确定能够利用已投入长期生态研究的资金的下一代问题。