Conference: NEON Great Lakes User Group Workshop

国家生态观测网（氖）的建立是为了了解区域到大陆尺度的生物现象。宏观系统生物学NEON使能科学计划高度重视缩放和整合一个尺度的观测结果，以更好地了解其他尺度的过程和动态。五大湖用户组是一个由具有广泛专门知识的研究人员组成的针对特定领域的团体，其目标是解决五大湖地区特有的科学和技术问题。该奖项为GLUG研讨会提供支持，以使尽可能多的利益相关者参与确定五大湖领域内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并解决区域到大陆规模的环境挑战。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。GLUG将促进以区域为重点的、与国家相关的合作研究，并为区域利益攸关方和氖科学工作者之间的沟通建立一个机制。研究计划将采用工作坊形式，包括简短的演讲、主题演讲、分组讨论及实地考察，以建立研究人员网络、促进研究知识的交流、整合多个以生态为重点的学科的数据、建立一个框架，以方便其他用户组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，同时提高认识和促进氖观测的使用。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得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的支持。

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.