Eco-DAS 3.0: Ecological Dissertations in the Aquatic Sciences: Honolulu, HI - October 2020, 2022, 2024

生态系统非常复杂。 今天，大多数生态研究都依赖于一个科学家团队的参与，每个科学家都为团队带来了特殊的技能和知识。 对于生态科学家来说，他们最重要的资产可能是广泛的专业网络，使科学家能够解决不可能单独解决的问题。 多样化的专业网络意味着对当今最重要问题的不同观点，以及对可能的解决方案的科学基础的创造性方法。 生态论文在水生科学（生态DAS）计划汇集了最近的博士学位获得者在水体生态的任何领域：海洋，河口，湖泊，池塘，河流，溪流或地下水。 虽然该计划的亮点是为期一周的研讨会，与会者交流思想和发展工作伙伴关系，生态DAS参与者互动了一年多。 在研讨会之前，与会者分享了他们最激动人心的想法，与水生生态学有关的合作手稿。在研讨会期间，他们自行组织成工作组，同意接受其中一个想法;他们还参加专业发展培训。 研讨会结束后，作者团队将他们选定的想法发展成手稿，并最终在开放获取的专业出版物上发表他们的作品。 通过Eco-DAS开发的专业网络远远超出了这些原始项目，并经常导致新的研究项目，合作和出版物。 该系列研讨会鼓励和促进来自不同子学科的早期职业科学家之间的跨学科合作，以使科学和研究人员受益。 研讨会的参与者代表了国家研究工作的最新成果，并有可能成为未来的领先科学家; Eco-DAS校友包括最近的获奖者，出版物编辑和终身教职员工。 生态DAS计划的评估提供了强有力的证据表明，参与可能会增加专业的成功，扩大参与者的专业网络，包括来自不同学科的同事，并发起新的合作，有可能促进未来的进一步合作。 每个生态DAS研讨会产生6-10发表的论文，包括评论，评论和原创研究。生态DAS方案包括以下组成部分：--从非常合格的申请人中挑选出不同的参与者群体。 申请人必须在一年内获得与水生生态学相关的博士学位，并且必须是目前的美国居民，与美国科学家合作，或者计划在美国或与美国科学家一起进行研究。 由于观点的多样性是团队创造力和生产力的重要组成部分，因此选择过程将考虑参与者所代表的背景的多样性。预期的附加值将是增加参与者专业网络的多样性。 --参与者开始提出跨学科的手稿，这将取决于发展一个团队与互补的专业知识。作者团队在研讨会期间围绕所提供的主题的子集进行自我组织。 -- 在研讨会期间举行了导师主导的讨论，信息丰富的小组和研讨会，为参与者应对水产科学学术和非学术职业的挑战做好准备。在研讨会结束时，各小组已经为选定的手稿制定了大纲。--论文手稿在研讨会结束后撰写，并最终在专业出版物上公开发表。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。

Ecosystems are highly complex. Most ecological research today depends on the involvement of a team of scientists, each of whom brings special skills and knowledge to the team. For an ecological scientist, their most important asset can be an extensive professional network that allows the scientist to tackle problems that could not possibly be solved alone. Diverse professional networks mean diverse perspectives on the most important issues of today, and creative approaches to the science underlying possible solutions. The Ecological Dissertations in the Aquatic Sciences (Eco-DAS) program brings together recent PhD recipients in any area of the ecology of water bodies: oceans, estuaries, lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, or groundwater. Although the highlight of the program is a week-long symposium at which participants exchange ideas and develop working partnerships, Eco-DAS participants interact for more than a year. Before the symposium, participants share their most exciting ideas for a collaborative manuscript related to aquatic ecology. During the symposium, they self-organize into working groups that agree to take on one of these ideas; they also engage in professional development training. After the symposium, the author teams develop their selected ideas into manuscripts and ultimately publish their work in an open-access professional publication. The professional networks developed through Eco-DAS persist well beyond these original projects, and often lead to new research projects, collaborations, and publications. The symposium series encourages and fosters interdisciplinary collaborations among early career scientists from diverse subdisciplines, to the benefit of both the science and the researchers. The symposium participants represent the latest additions to the national research effort and are likely to become leading scientists in future; Eco-DAS alumni include recent award recipients, publication editors, and tenured faculty. Evaluations of the Eco-DAS program provide strong evidence that participation is likely to increase professional success by expanding the professional network of participants to include colleagues from diverse disciplines, and by initiating new collaborations that are likely to promote further collaboration in future. Each Eco-DAS symposium generates 6-10 published papers, including reviews, commentary, and original research. The Eco-DAS program includes the following components:-- A diverse group of participants is selected from an exceptionally well qualified pool of applicants. Applicants must be within one year of their PhD in a field related to aquatic ecology, and must be current U.S. residents, working with U.S. scientists, or have plans to conduct research in the U.S. or with U.S. scientists. Because a diversity of perspective is an important component of group creativity and productivity, the selection process will consider the diversity of backgrounds represented among the participants. An intended added-value will be increased diversity in the professional networks of participants. -- Participants begin by proposing interdisciplinary manuscripts that would depend on developing a team with complementary expertise. -- Author teams self-organize during the symposium around a subset of the offered topics. -- Mentor-led discussions, informative panels, and workshops are held during the symposium to prepare participants for the challenges of academic and non-academic careers in the aquatic sciences.-- By the end of the symposium, teams have developed outlines for the selected manuscripts. -- The manuscripts are written after the symposium, and ultimately appear in open access in professional publications.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.