CEAS: Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

9421535默多克加州大学圣巴巴拉分校提议成立生态分析与综合中心(CEAS)。CEAS的理性是对国家生态学家定义的生态面临的重大基础性和应用性问题开展合作研究。该中心将开发新技术，特别是在数学建模、密集计算、生态系统可视化以及复杂生态现象中地理变化的数字表示方面。它将向学生和青年科学家提供新技术和新进展方面的特殊教育机会，并将其研究成果传播给广大潜在用户，包括决策者和那些直接参与资源管理和其他环境领域的人。中心将通过促进以个人为基础的合作研究项目以及举办研讨会和会议来实现这些目标。据估计，约有150名研究生态学家将在该中心停留较长时间，每年还将有600名研究人员和学生参加该中心的会议、讲习班和培训班。CEAS将由一名主任管理，一个由生态界活跃成员组成的科学咨询委员会，以及一个外部联络委员会，成员来自学术界、州和联邦机构以及公共部门。与加州贸易和商业局和加州大学在五年内分担的费用约为403万美元。加州大学圣巴巴拉分校是举办CEAS的理想场所，因为它提供了激发智力的环境、卓越的技术专长和设施，以及具有吸引力的地理位置和设施。此外，UCSB的提案为一个创造性、前瞻性的中心提供了最强烈的愿景，该中心的设计具有高度灵活性，以满足国家生态社区的需求，并对其做出高度响应。

9421535 Murdoch The University of California, Santa Barbara, proposes to establish a Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (CEAS). The rational for the CEAS is to carry out collaborative research on the major fundamental and applied problems facing ecology, as defined by the nation's ecologists. The Center will develop new techniques, especially in mathematical modeling, intensive computation, visualization of ecological systems, and digital representation of geographic variation in complex ecological phenomena. It will provide special educational opportunities in new techniques and advances to students and young scientists, and will disseminate the results of its research to a broad class of potential users, including decision-makers and those involved directly in resource-management and other environmental areas. The Center will accomplish these goals by fostering individually based and collaborative research projects, and by conducting workshops and conferences. It is estimated that approximately 150 research ecologists will spend extended periods of time at the Center, and a further 600 researchers and students will participate in its conferences, workshops and training courses each year. The CEAS will be managed by a Director, a Scientific Advisory Board comprised of active members of the ecological community, and an External Liaison Committee with membership drawn from academia, state and federal agencies, and the public sector. Cost sharing with the California Trade and Commerce Agency and the University of California is approximately $4.03 million over five years. The University of California, Santa Barbara is an ideal setting for the CEAS because it provides an intellectually stimulating environment, exceptional technical expertise and facilities, and a physically attractive location and facility. In addition, the UCSB proposal provided the strongest vision for a creative, forward-looking Center that was designed to be highly flexible in order to meet the needs of, and be high ly responsive to, the nation's ecological community.