Workshop: The Past, Present, and Future of NSF's Macrosystems Biology Program, August 5-6, 2015, Arlington, Virginia

这一奖励将部分用于支付参与者对2015年大系统生物学(MSB)首席研究员会议的支持，会议将于8月5日至6日在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿的NSF总部举行。这是目前计划征集下的最后一次MSB会议。会议的目标包括强调项目的成功和讨论MSB科学的未来方向。我们会按个案需要，向约10名参加者提供支援。纳入这些参与者将有助于确保MSB项目的充分参与，并在计划过程中全面评估MSB科学的进展，从而促进会议目标的实现。大规模大气-生物圈反馈和相互作用是预测未来气候变化影响的一大不确定性来源。MSB项目通过鼓励与计算机科学、地理学、气候学、生物学和生态学的研究人员进行跨学科合作，成为了解这一问题的催化剂。MSB计划目前处于中断状态，以重新评估计划的优先事项并调整未来的迭代。这次MSB会议将是这一进程的一个组成部分，因为它将突出MSB研究的成功并讨论后勤挑战。本提案所要求的参与者支持对于让不同的MSB项目群体更多地参与和反思尤为重要。了解气候变化下的大气-生物圈相互作用和反馈是社会面临的迫切需要。然而，由于在时间和空间上扩大观测和模型预测的复杂性，如此大规模的理解需要跨学科的方法。MSB计划的成立就是为了满足这一需求，并提供一个支持跨学科合作的场所。在这次会议上，与会者将通过一系列口头和海报演示以及分组会议，反思MSB类型研究的成功和未来面临的挑战。

This award will partially cover participant support for the 2015 MacroSystem Biology (MSB) principal investigator meeting on August 5-6 at NSF headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. This is the last MSB meeting under the current program solicitation. Goals of the meeting include highlighting program successes and discussing future directions for MSB science. Support will be allocated to about 10 participants on a case need basis. Inclusion of these participants will facilitate achieving meeting goals by helping to ensure full participation of MSB projects and enabling full assessment the progress of MSB science over the course of the program. Large-scale atmosphere-biosphere feedbacks and interactions are a large source of uncertainty in predicting the impact of future climate change. The MSB program has served as a catalyst to understand this issue by encouraging interdisciplinary collaborations with researchers in computer science, geography, climatology, biology and ecology. The MSB program is currently on hiatus to reassess program priorities and restructure future iterations. This MSB meeting will be an integral part of this process, as it will highlight the successes and discuss logistical challenges for MSB research. Participant support requested in this proposal is especially important for allowing greater participation and reflection among the diverse group of MSB projects.Understanding atmosphere-biosphere interactions and feedbacks under a changing climate is an urgent need facing society. However, such large scale understanding requires an interdisciplinary approach because of the complexity of scaling up observations and model predictions in time and space. The MSB program was formed in order to address this need and to provide a venue to support inter-disciplinary collaborations. At this meeting, participants will reflect upon the successes of and challenges facing MSB type research in the future through a series of oral and poster presentations and breakout sessions.