Macrosystems Biology and NEON enabled science investigator meeting

今天，紧迫的环境问题，如气候变化，水资源的使用和粮食安全比比皆是。社会必须了解这些环境问题，因为它们影响到维持地球上生命所需的自然资源。在获得有关非生物和生物世界如何运作的知识方面，最大的挑战之一是，环境科学的大多数研究都是在小的地方规模上进行的，但目前许多环境问题都是在区域，大陆和全球范围内进行的。因此，扩大空间环境研究至关重要。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在区域到大陆尺度。这种大规模的科学研究需要一个协作的科学家团队，其中包括有能力跨越学科和文化差异的个人，以便获得最高科学质量的见解，并对社会公平。鉴于宏观系统生物学的协作性质，这一领域的进展是通过共享科学知识和如何促进生产力，多样化的团队。本次会议将通过为研究人员提供一个机会，分享对宏观系统生物学进展和团队科学的见解，促进知识共享。通过专业发展和参与的科学家，积极的研究人员的合作，并产生新的想法和研究项目的合成，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，强调早期职业和传统上代表性不足的研究人员在讲习班的各个方面的观点。本次会议的建议将支持通过NSF宏观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，重点是包容和访问。会议将通过四个目标推进宏观系统生物学和氖使能科学：1）促进不同的MSB-NES研究人员群体之间的网络和社区建设; 2）反思前十年的MSB研究，并概述未来十年要解决的知识差距; 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;以及4）确定团队科学的各个方面，促进开放科学和包容性，使MSB-NES研究团队的见解能够为广大受众所了解。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。

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.