Conference: NEON Great Lakes User Group Workshop

国家生态观测站网络（NEON）的建立是为了了解区域到大陆尺度的生物现象。Macrosystems Biology & neon enabled Science项目高度重视缩放和整合一个尺度上的观察结果，以便更好地理解其他尺度上的过程和动态。大湖用户组（GLUG）是具有广泛专业知识的特定领域研究人员的集合，其目标是解决大湖地区特有的科学和技术问题。该奖项为glg研讨会提供支持，使尽可能多的利益相关者参与其中，以确定大湖区正在进行的生态研究和数据收集，以及如何利用这些知识和专业知识来推进科学知识和应对区域到大陆范围内的环境挑战。对社会的好处包括将这种专门知识应用于五大湖及其他地区的保护和恢复。促进科学的学习和社会理解将通过吸纳科学中代表性不足的群体的成员，包括研究生来实现。GLUG将促进以区域为重点的、与国家相关的合作研究，并在区域利益相关者和NEON科学人员之间建立沟通机制。将采用一种以讲习班为基础的办法，包括简短的介绍、主题演讲、分组讨论会议和实地考察，以建立一个研究人员网络，促进研究知识的交流，综合来自一系列以生态为重点的学科的数据，建立一个框架，以便利其他用户群体组织和制定合作项目建议的路线图。这些活动的结果将加强现有的合作并促进新的合作，同时提高认识并促进利用NEON的观测结果。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。

The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) was developed to understand biological phenomena at regional to continental scales. The Macrosystems Biology & NEON-Enabled Science program places a high priorty on scaling and integrating the results from observations at one scale to understand processes and dynamics better at other scales. The Great Lakes User Group (GLUG) is a domain-specific ensemble of researchers with a wide range of expertise, whose goal is to address scientific and technical issues specific to the Great Lakes region. This award provides support for a GLUG workshop to engage as many stakeholders as possible in identifying what ecological research and data collection is ongoing within the Great Lakes Domain and how this knowledge and expertise can be leveraged to advance scientific knowledge and address environmental challenges at regional to continental scales. The benefits to society include the application of this expertise to conservation and restoration in the Great Lakes and beyond. Promotion of learning and societal understanding of science will be achieved by the inclusion of members of underrepresented groups in science, including graduate students.GLUG will facilitate regionally focused, nationally relevant collaborative research, and create a mechanism for communication among regional stakeholders and NEON scientific staff. A workshop-based approach, consisting of short presentations, a keynote address, breakout brainstorming sessions and site visits will be adopted to create a network of researchers, facilitate exchange of research knowledge, integrate data from a range of ecologically focused disciplines, establish a framework to facilitate other user groups to organize and develop a roadmap for a collaborative project proposal. The outcome of these activities will strengthen existing collaborations and foster new ones, together with raising greater awareness and promoting use of NEON observations.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.