Macrosystems Biology and NEON enabled science investigator meeting

今天，气候变化、水资源利用和粮食安全等紧迫的环境问题比比皆是。对社会来说，理解这些环境问题很重要，因为它们影响到维持地球生命所需的自然资源。了解非生物和生物世界如何运作的最大挑战之一是，环境科学的大多数研究都是在小范围内进行的，但当前的许多环境问题都是在区域、大陆和全球范围内进行的。因此，扩大太空中的环境研究至关重要。大系统生物学致力于了解生物圈过程及其与气候、土地利用的复杂相互作用，以及区域到大陆尺度上物种地理分布的变化。这种大规模的科学研究需要一个合作的科学家团队，其中包括能够跨学科和文化差异整合的个人，以便得出的见解具有最高的科学质量，并具有社会公平性。鉴于大系统生物学的合作性质，该领域的进步是通过分享科学知识和如何促进富有成效的、多样化的团队来实现的。这次会议将通过为研究人员提供一个机会来分享对大系统生物学进展和团队科学的见解，从而促进知识共享。通过不同科学家群体的专业发展和参与，活跃的研究人员的合作，以及新想法的产生和研究项目的综合，这次会议将扩大目前资助的大系统生物学研究的影响。本次会议的提案将支持由NSF大系统生物学和国家生态观测网络使能科学(MSB-NES)计划资助的项目科学家会议。会议的主题将是团队科学，重点是包容性和可获得性。会议将通过四个目标推进大系统生物学和霓虹灯使能科学：1)促进不同的MSB-NES研究人员之间的联网和社区建设；2)反思MSB研究的头十年，并概述下一个十年要解决的知识差距；3)为MSB-NES研究人员提供多样化的团队科学培训，帮助团队成功地扩大参与；4)确定团队科学中促进开放科学和包容的方面，以使MSB-NES研究团队的见解能够向广大观众提供。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。

Today, pressing environmental problems, such as climate change, use of water resources, and food security abound. It is important for society to understand these environmental issues because they impact natural resources needed to sustain life on Earth. One of the biggest challenges in gaining knowledge about how the non-living and living world works is that most research in environmental science has been done at small, local scales, but many current environmental issues operate at regional, continental, and global scales. Thus, scaling up environmental research across space is vital. Macrosystems biology seeks to understand research on biosphere processes and their complex interactions with climate, land use, and changes in species geographic distributions at regional to continental scales. Such large-scale scientific research demands a collaborative team of scientists, including individuals with the ability to integrate across disciplinary and cultural differences, so that insights made are of the highest scientific quality and are socially equitable. Given the collaborative nature of macrosystems biology, advances in this field are made through shared knowledge of the science and of how to promote productive, diverse teams. This meeting will promote knowledge sharing by providing an opportunity for researchers to share insights into macrosystems biology advances and into team science. Through professional development and engagement of a diverse group of scientists, collaboration of active researchers, and generation of new ideas and synthesis of research projects, this meeting will broaden the impact of currently funded Macrosystems biology research. Specific efforts will be made to emphasize perspectives of early-career and traditionally under-represented researchers in all aspects of the workshop.This conference proposal will support a meeting of project scientists funded through the NSF Macrosystems Biology and National Ecological Observatory Network Enabled Science (MSB-NES) program. The meeting’s theme will be team science with emphases on inclusion and access. The meeting will advance macrosystems biology and NEON enabled science through four goals: 1) facilitating networking and community-building among a diverse group of MSB-NES researchers; 2) reflect on the first ten years of MSB research and outline knowledge gaps to be addressed in the next decade; 3) providing training on team science in a diverse landscape for MSB-NES researchers that will help teams to successfully broaden participation; and 4) identifying aspects of team science that promote open science and inclusion to make accessible insights from MSB-NES research teams to a wide audience.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.