Meeting: Weaving the Future of Animal Behavior; (2018-2021); Phoenix, AZ

动物行为研究的未来取决于下一代科学家和领导者。这个项目是通过支持早期职业调查人员和促进他们的科学来推动动物行为科学的新举措。该倡议的核心是为早期职业科学家举办一系列新的专业发展研讨会，每年举办一次，作为动物行为学会（ABS）会议的一部分。此外，一个由资深研究人员组成的新委员会将通过提名研讨会参与者获奖和组织在国际会议上突出他们的研究的研讨会来促进早期职业科学家。该委员会还将通过在年会上组织类似的研讨会和讲习班，加强动物行为学会与其他专业学会（如综合与比较生物学学会）之间的联系。该项目始于2019年5月为35名早期职业科学家举办的研讨会，随后形成了同行指导圈，通过电话会议每两周举行一次，以支持这些研究人员在随后的一年中。专门研究女性和少数民族科学家职业发展的专业人士将组织这次初步研讨会，并将同时培训新委员会的成员，以便在2019年和2020年的ABS会议上举办类似的研讨会和同行指导圈。新的委员会还将提议在2020年ABS和2021年综合与比较生物学学会（SICB）会议上举办专题讨论会，突出研讨会参与者的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The future of Animal Behavior research depends on the next generation of scientists and leaders. This project is to jump-start a new initiative that advances animal behavior science by supporting early-career investigators and promoting their science. At the core of the initiative is a new series of professional-development workshops for early-career scientists to be held annually as part of the Animal Behavior Society (ABS) meetings. In addition, a new committee of established investigators will promote early-career scientists by nominating workshop participants for awards and organizing symposia that highlight their research at international conferences. The committee will also forge stronger connections between the Animal Behavior Society and other professional societies, such as the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, by organizing similar symposia and workshops at their annual meetings. The project begins with a symposium for 35 early-career scientists in May 2019, followed by the formation of peer-mentoring circles that meet biweekly via conference calls to support these researchers throughout the subsequent year. Professionals who specialize on career development of women and minority scientists will organize this initial symposium, and will simultaneously train the members of the new committee to run similar workshop and peer-mentoring circles at the 2019 and 2020 ABS meetings. The new committee will also propose symposia that highlight the research of workshop participants at the 2020 ABS and 2021 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) conferences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.