AccelNet-Implementation: FLUXNET Coordination to Understand Ecosystem Function through Continuous Observations of Ecosystem-Atmosphere Interactions

全球生态系统提供维持社会的服务，包括提供食物、纤维和木材以及水循环调节。 一项重要的服务是从大气中隔离二氧化碳，这大大减缓了气候变化的速度。 了解生态系统-大气的相互作用以及它们对环境变化的反应是一项紧迫的挑战。 该奖项将连接10多个现有的国家和国际网络，专注于在全球1000多个地点连续观测生态系统-大气相互作用。 FLUXNET协调项目将填补与生态系统功能和相关碳和水循环的持续变化相关的科学，工程和社会问题的基本知识空白。 FLUXNET是一个由区域网络组成的全球网络，由科学家组成，测量生态系统和大气之间的二氧化碳，水，能源和其他温室气体通量的交换。 该项目将开发下一代FLUXNET网络网络，使其成为一个自我维持的全球合作，重点是支持早期职业科学家，扩大所涉及的科学家，生物群落和气候区域的多样性，并加强国际合作。鉴于地球上生命的多样性，只有通过网络的网络办法，才能充分了解生态系统在地球系统中的作用。 FLUXNET协调项目的中心目标是提供新的培训和交流机会，发展强有力的国际合作，并建立工具和协议，以确保FLUXNET持续不断地观测地球仪上的生态系统-大气相互作用。 事实证明，这种测量对于理解生态系统功能、校准空间观测和开发用于预测未来气候的模型至关重要。 该项目将开发以数据为重点的处理协议和管道，以及以人为本的教育和交流机会。 网络活动包括在国家和国际场所举行的年度面对面会议，每月的网络研讨会，研讨会和综合出版物，以及学生和早期职业研究人员的人员交流。 该项目将采用创新性和变革性的方法开展国际合作和网络科学，以实现将下一代FLUXNET建设成为网络化全球科学合作的自立旗舰的目标。该计划旨在加速科学发现的进程，并为下一代美国研究人员进行多团队国际合作做好准备。该计划支持美国研究网络和海外互补网络之间的战略联系，这些网络将利用研究和教育资源来应对需要重大协调国际努力的重大科学挑战。该奖项由生物科学理事会的宏观系统生物学和NEON启用科学计划以及氖计划共同资助。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。

Global ecosystems provide services that sustain society, including providing food, fiber and timber, and water cycle regulation. An important service is the sequestering of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which greatly slows the rate of climate change. Understanding ecosystem-atmosphere interactions, and the response of these to environmental change, is an urgent challenge. This AccelNet Implementation Track award will link over ten existing national and international networks focused on continuous observations of ecosystem-atmosphere interactions at over 1000 locations around the world. The FLUXNET Coordination Project will fill fundamental knowledge gaps in science, engineering, and societal issues associated with ongoing changes in ecosystem function and the related cycling of carbon and water. FLUXNET is a global network of regional networks, consisting of scientists measuring the exchange of carbon dioxide, water, energy, and other greenhouse gas fluxes between ecosystems and the atmosphere. This project will develop the next generation of the FLUXNET network of networks to be a self-sustaining global collaboration focused on supporting early career scientists, expanding the diversity of scientists, biomes, and climate regions involved, and empowering international collaboration. Given the diversity of life on Earth, a full understanding of the role of ecosystems in the Earth system can only be achieved through a network-of-networks approach. The central goals of the FLUXNET Coordination Project are to provide novel training and exchange opportunities, develop strong international collaborations, and build tools and protocols that ensure continued capacity of FLUXNET to provide continuous observations of ecosystem-atmosphere interactions across the globe. Such measurements have proven essential for understanding ecosystem function, calibrating space-borne observations, and developing models used to project future climate. The project will develop data-focused processing protocols and pipelines, as well as people-focused education and exchange opportunities. Network activities include annual in-person meetings at national and international venues, monthly webinars, workshops and synthesis publications, and student and early-career researcher personnel exchanges. The project will use creative and transformative approaches to international collaboration and networked science to achieve its goal of building the next generation of FLUXNET to be a self-sustaining flagship of networked global scientific cooperation.The Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet) program is designed to accelerate the process of scientific discovery and prepare the next generation of U.S. researchers for multiteam international collaborations. The AccelNet program supports strategic linkages among U.S. research networks and complementary networks abroad that will leverage research and educational resources to tackle grand scientific challenges that require significant coordinated international efforts. Co-funding for this award is provided by the Macrosystems Biology and NEON-Enabled Science Program and the NEON Program in the Directorate for Biological Sciences.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.