Forging the future of ecological stoichiometry: the fourth Woodstoich workshop; August, 2019, Montana

新的科学进步往往需要从多个角度综合信息。这一点在环境科学中尤其如此。建立在我们所知的基础上的新想法是更深入地了解人类对生态系统的影响所必需的。培养年轻的科学家进行广泛和综合的思考，对于实现这种更深层次的理解非常重要。该讲习班将为24名青年科学家提供一个相互交流的机会，以及与他们的资深同事交流的机会。其目标是通过在以前工作的基础上改进和扩展生态学和进化论的想法，并将许多观点聚集在一起探索新的领域。这些新想法将与科学界和公众广泛分享。研讨会的成果将是几份影响力很大的出版物，介绍一些最令人兴奋的生态学和进化论的新思想。它还将使一批年轻科学家走上环境科学成功的道路，其中许多人来自代表性不足的群体。生态和生物化学计量学理论框架将能量和多种化学元素的质量平衡应用于生物组织的多个尺度上的通量，并将它们整合到一个进化框架中。拟议的以产品为重点的活动-伍德斯托奇4研讨会-的愿景是通过改进和扩大化学计量理论的使用，使早期职业科学家能够活跃生态。拟议的研讨会将通过鼓励不同的早期职业科学家之间的开放对话和严格的思想和方法交流来刺激创新，这些科学家的工作方式不受传统、长期习惯或专业义务的束缚。以产品为重点的研讨会框架中的关键概念包括挑选一些具有创新化学计量观点的早期职业博士后研究人员或一年级助理教授，领导由其他早期职业研究人员组成的工作组以手稿的形式澄清这一愿景，该手稿迅速但严格地进行同行评审以供出版。参与者的申请和选择不仅基于他们的学科重点和成就，而且还包括对团体的创造性有效性至关重要的多样性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

New scientific advances often require synthesis of information from many perspectives. This is particularly true in the environmental sciences. New ideas that build on what we know are needed for a deeper understanding of human impact on ecosystems. Training young scientists to think broadly and synthetically is important to achieve this deeper understanding. This workshop will provide an opportunity for twenty-four young scientists to interact with each other and their more senior colleagues. The goal is to improve and expand ideas in ecology and evolution by building on previous work and bringing many perspectives together to explore new frontiers. These new ideas will be shared broadly with the science community and the public. The outcome of the workshop will be several high impact publications presenting some of the most exciting new ideas in ecology and evolution. It will also set a cohort of young scientists, many from underrepresented groups, on a pathway to success in the environmental sciences.The ecological and biological stoichiometry theoretical frameworks apply mass balance of energy and multiple chemical elements to fluxes at multiple scales of biological organization and integrate them into an evolutionary framework. The vision of the proposed product-focused event, The Woodstoich 4 Workshop, is to empower early career scientists to invigorate ecology by improving and expanding the use of stoichiometric theory. The proposed workshop will stimulate innovation by encouraging open dialogue and rigorous exchange of ideas and methods amongst diverse, early career scientists whose ways of working are not locked into place by tradition, long-standing habits, or professional obligation. Key concepts in the product-focused workshop framework include selection of a few, early-career post-doctoral researchers or first-year assistant professors with an innovative stoichiometric vision that lead working groups composed of other early career researchers to clarify that vision in the form of a manuscript that is rapidly but rigorously peer-reviewed for publication. Participants will apply and be selected based not only on their disciplinary focus and accomplishments but also to incorporate diversity that is essential to the creative effectiveness of groups.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.