Meeting: Beyond the Mean: Biological Impacts of Changes in Temperature Variation, SICB, Portland, Oregon, January 2016

虽然许多研究记录了平均环境温度的变化如何影响生物体，但很少有研究评估温度变化（每天或季节之间）以及极端天气事件的频率和影响如何影响生物体。然而，早期的研究和理论工作表明，温度变化模式的影响可能是巨大的。生物学家正处于这一领域工作的爆炸式增长的尖端，这项资助支持的研讨会（在综合与比较生物学协会2016年波特兰会议上）将通过将成熟和早期职业生物学家聚集在一起，对理论和数据进行广泛的讨论，推动这些想法向前发展。本次研讨会的结果将发表在《综合与比较生物学》杂志上。研讨会将支持不同层次的科学家、学生和研究人员。该基金将支持不同层次的国际和美国科学家（总共4名女性，4名博士后，5名国际科学家，2名来自代表性不足的群体）。这个项目还将作为一项试验，探索举办专题讨论会和产生迅速发表的高影响论文的新模式。每位参与者将被要求在他们的演讲中提前回答该领域四个突出问题中的一个或多个。然后，在研讨会上，与会者将向小组作口头介绍，随后将在两个密集讲习班上工作，目的是编写重点广泛、影响大的论文，反映对该领域现状的共识（或缺乏共识），并描述今后的富有成效的步骤。目前正在与出版期刊（综合与比较生物学）进行讨论，以简化出版过程，以便论文尽快出现在网上和印刷中。在会议期间，将从两个方面扩大参与。首先，鼓励观众参与，在每次演讲后安排较长的问答时间（10分钟），并在演讲期间通过社交媒体收集研讨会和观众参与者的问题和评论，用于问答环节和研讨会，以形成讨论框架。其次，将有一个由各级学生和研究人员参与的相关海报会议。这些科学家也将被鼓励参加研讨会，并有可能共同撰写研讨会论文。

Although much research has documented how changes in average environmental temperatures affect organisms, much less work has evaluated how changes in temperature variation (day to day or season to season), and in the frequency and impacts of extreme weather events, affect organisms. Nevertheless, early studies and theoretical work indicate that the impacts of changing patterns of temperature variation can be enormous. Biologists are on the cusp of an explosion of work in this area, and the symposium that this grant supports (at the Portland 2016 meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology) will drive these ideas forward by bringing together established and early-career biologists for a wide-ranging discussion of theory and data. The results of this symposium will be published in the journal of Integrative and Comparative Biology. The symposium will support a diversity of scientists along with students and researchers at all levels.The grant will support a diversity of international and US scientists working across a variety of levels (altogether 4 women, 4 postdocs, 5 international, and 2 from underrepresented groups). This project will also function as an experiment to explore a new model of running a symposium and of generating rapidly-published, high-impact papers. Each participant will be asked ahead of time to address, in their talk, one or more of four outstanding questions in the field. Then, at the symposium, participants will give oral presentations to the group and will subsequently work in two intensive workshops aimed at generating broadly focused, high-impact papers reflecting the consensus (or lack thereof) about the current state of the field and a description of productive next steps. Discussions are underway with the publication journal (Integrative and Comparative Biology) to streamline the publication process so that the papers appear online and in print as soon as possible. During the meeting, participation will be broadened in two ways. First, audience participation will be encouraged both by scheduling long question & answer periods (10 minutes) after each talk and by gathering questions and comments from symposium and audience participants via social media during talks to be used in the Q&A and in the workshops to frame discussions. Second, there will be a companion, related poster session by students and researchers at all levels. These scientists will be encouraged to participate in the workshops as well, and potentially to co-author symposium papers.