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，了解这些环境问题是很重要的，因为它们影响到维持地球上生命所需的自然资源。在了解非生物和生物世界如何运作的过程中，最大的挑战之一是，大多数环境科学研究都是在小的、局部的尺度上完成的，但许多当前的环境问题都是在区域、大陆和全球尺度上进行的。因此，扩大跨空间环境研究是至关重要的。宏观系统生物学旨在了解生物圈过程及其与气候、土地利用和物种地理分布变化的复杂相互作用的研究。如此大规模的科学研究需要一个合作的科学家团队，其中包括能够整合跨学科和文化差异的个人，以便得出具有最高科学质量和社会公平的见解。考虑到宏观系统生物学的协作性质，这一领域的进步是通过共享科学知识以及如何促进高效、多样化的团队来实现的。本次会议将促进知识共享，为研究人员提供机会，分享对宏观系统生物学进展和团队科学的见解。通过专业发展和不同科学家群体的参与，活跃研究人员的合作，以及新想法的产生和研究项目的综合，本次会议将扩大目前资助的宏观系统生物学研究的影响。将作出具体努力，在讲习班的各个方面强调早期职业和传统上代表性不足的研究人员的观点。本会议提案将支持由NSF宏观系统生物学和国家生态观测站网络支持科学（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，重点是包容和获取。会议将通过四个目标推进宏观系统生物学和NEON科学：1)促进MSB-NES研究人员群体之间的网络和社区建设；2)反思中小企业研究的前十年，概述未来十年需要解决的知识缺口；3)为MSB-NES研究人员提供多元化环境下的团队科学培训，帮助团队成功扩大参与；4)确定团队科学中促进开放科学和包容的方面，使MSB-NES研究团队的见解能够被广泛的受众所接受。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。

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.