Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology

描述(由申请人提供)：人口与生态研究中心(CSDE)要求续签其五年期中心拨款R24基础设施支持。CSDE有86名教员，其中68人来自华盛顿大学文理学院、公共卫生学院、社会工作学院、护理学院、公共事务学院和环境学院；其余18人在西北地区的机构工作：华盛顿州立大学、西华盛顿大学、西雅图大学、巴特尔纪念研究所和加拿大维多利亚大学。通过这些分支机构，CSDE的目标是通过新的数据、新的概念方法和新的技术，促进对人口统计学基本问题--生育率和家庭变化、移民、健康和死亡率--的了解，并继续提出关于人口行为和人口结果的新问题。为了实现这一目标，CSDE：(1)提供广泛的高质量研究服务，支持尖端人口科学；(2)促进跨学科合作，产生 人口研究方面的创新，(3)在计算和实验室环境中开发新的人口研究方法，(4)为具有人口科学现有方法和新方法的各级研究人员提供培训，(5)提供资源和环境，以促进初级人口科学家的发展，(6)向学术界和更广泛的社区传播CSDE研究。五个标志性主题描述了可持续发展委员会附属机构的研究：(1)人口健康的生物社会背景；(2)家庭和儿童；(3)移民、少数群体和不平等机会；(4)人口与环境；(5)人口统计方法。CSDE将使用R24应用程序，通过四个研究基础设施核心和一个发展基础设施核心请求对这些研究主题的持续支持：1)行政和信息管理核心-在支持研究行政和信息管理的各个方面提供高质量的服务；2)生物人口学核心-促进将生物数据纳入人口研究，并专门开发和优化适合非临床环境下大规模生物标记物收集和测量的方法；3)计算核心-为CSDE附属机构、工作人员和研究助理提供尖端技术、应用和编程支持以及计算基础设施；4)方法和数据核心--通过在统计和地理信息系统方法的选择和实施方面提供专门知识，支持可持续发展教育的研究和培训活动；5)发展基础设施核心--通过向可持续发展教育教职员工提供种子和工作组补助金，促进新的研究举措，特别是针对初级研究人员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE) requests a renewal of its five year center grant R24 infrastructure support. CSDE has 86 faculty affiliates, 68 from UW departments in the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Public Health, School of Social Work, School of Nursing, School of Public Affairs, and College of the Environment; the remaining 18 are at regional institutions in the northwest: Washington State University, Western Washington University, Seattle University, Battelle Memorial Institute, and the University of Victoria, Canada. With these affiliates, CSDE's goal is to advance knowledge on the fundamental issues of demography - fertility and family change, migration, health and mortality - with new data, new conceptual approaches, and new techniques, as well as continuing to ask new questions about demographic behaviors and population outcomes. To accomplish this goal, CSDE: (1) provides a broad range of high quality research services supporting cutting-edge population science, (2) fosters interdisciplinary collaborations that yield innovations in demographic research, (3) develops new demographic research methods in computational and laboratory settings, (4) provides training for researchers at all levels of experience in established and new methods in population science, (5) provides resources and an environment to nurture the development of junior population scientists, (6) disseminates CSDE research to academic and wider communities. Five signature themes describe the research of CSDE's affiliates: (1) Biosocial Contexts of Population Health; (2) Families and Children; (3) Migrants, Minorities and Unequal Opportunities; (4) Population and Environment; (5)Demographic Methods. CSDE will use the R24 application to request continuing support for these research themes through four research infrastructure cores and a developmental infrastructure core: 1) Administration and Information Management Core - provides high quality service in all aspects of support for research administration and information management; 2) Biodemography Core - facilitates the inclusion of biological data in population research, and specializes in developing and optimizing methods suitable for large-scale biomarker collection and measurement in non-clinical settings ; 3) Computing Core - provides cutting edge technical, application, and programming support as well as computing infrastructure to CSDE affiliates, staff, and research assistants;4) Methods and Data Core - supports the research and training activities of CSDE by providing expertise in the choice and implementation of statistical and GIS methodology;5) Developmental Infrastructure Core - promotes new research initiatives, especially for junior researchers, through seed and working group grant wards to CSDE faculty affiliates.