Workshop Proposal: Global Environmental Research Infrastructure (GERI) Planning Workshop; June 25-27, 2019; Boulder, Colorado

巴特尔纪念研究所（Battelle Memorial Institute）将获得资金，举办一个研讨会，旨在召集来自六个国家的环境研究基础设施（ERIs）领导人，探讨共同的研究兴趣，并探索加强合作的模式，以利用每个基础设施的个体和它们的综合研究优势。参与的ERIs所服务的纯粹的地理广度和多样化的研究社区，在国际数据共享的支持下，可能为这一全球科学努力增加广泛的社会效益。资助了一个研讨会，以促进确定共同的研究主题，并开发与每个ERI的国家目标相一致的潜在治理结构的特征和潜在需求，并为研究基础设施产生全球视角和良好实践。该研讨会还促进建立持久的科学合作，这将促进解决环境科学和生态学方面的全球研究问题的行动。拟议的活动将开始建立一个平台，促进跨国界的更广泛的社区动员，从而有可能产生重大的社会影响。组织者计划邀请来自6个ERIs的28-32名个人参与，并允许远程参与，扩大研讨会的范围。总之，本次研讨会利用美国国家科学基金会对国家生态观测网络（NEON）的投资，为美国研究人员提供了一个合作框架，以参与这一全球对话，并可能影响和获取全球生态数据集。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

Funding is provided to Battelle Memorial Institute to execute a workshop intended to assemble leaders of Environmental Research Infrastructures (ERIs) from six countries to explore common research interests and explore models to enhance collaborations that leverage each infrastructure's individual, and their combined research strengths. The sheer geographic breadth and the diverse research communities served by participating ERIs potentially add extensive societal benefits to this global scientific endeavor, supported by international data sharing.A workshop facilitating the identification of common research themes and the development of features and potential requirements for a potential governance structure that aligns with each ERI's national goals and engenders global perspectives and good practices for research infrastructures is funded. The workshop also promotes the building of lasting scientific collaborations that will catalyze actions addressing global research questions in environmental science and ecology. The activities proposed will initiate the creation of a platform that fosters wider community mobilization across international boundaries, thus having the potential for significant societal impacts. The organizers plan to engage 28-32 individuals from six ERIs and allow for remote participation, expanding the reach of the workshop. In summary, this workshop leverages NSF's investment in the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and provides a collaborative framework for US researchers to participate in this global conversation and potentially influence, and gain access to, a global ecological data set.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.