Support for a Geological Society of America's Penrose Conference Entitled "Linking Spatial and Temporal Scales in Paleoecology and Ecology," May 1998, Annapolis, Maryland

小行星9729032 这项建议提供了一个理由，部分资金从国家科学基金会支持彭罗斯会议题为“连接空间和时间尺度在古生态学和生态学”。 彭罗斯会议系列是美国地质学会（GSA）的主要研究会议系列。 由于其跨学科的性质，本次会议是由美国生态学会（ESA）和古生物学会（PS）共同赞助。 在这里，我们提供了一个NSF资助的理由，这将用于支付美国和国际演讲者的差旅和会议费用，并允许增加研究生的参与。 召开这次会议的想法来自召集人之间关于加强古生态学家和生态学家之间沟通的必要性的长期讨论。 长期存在的部门隶属关系（地质学与有机生物学），专业协会隶属关系和培训的分裂阻碍了两个学科之间的沟通渠道。 然而，由于即将发生的全球气候变化和生物多样性丧失等跨领域的社会问题将取决于来自这两个领域的信息投入，因此比以往任何时候都更需要这种信息交流和综合。 通过使用简短的正式介绍性演讲，随后是海报会议，小组讨论和开放式研讨会的广泛时间，我们希望实现这两个学科如何在未来更有效地互动的综合。 我们从NSF请求的会议支持资金有两个目标。 首先，我们希望确保与我们有着跨学科综合目标的杰出科学家在会议上有很好的代表性。 其次，我们希望在即将到来的一代生态学和古生态学研究生中促进这一目标，通过在他们的职业生涯早期为他们提供跨学科的接触，并打破传统的跨学科障碍，这些障碍往往使这种飞跃在职业生涯后期更加困难。

9729032 Cohen This proposal provides a rationale for partial funding from the National Science Foundation in support of a Penrose conference entitled "Linking spatial and temporal scales in paleoecology and ecology". The Penrose conference series is the primary research conference series of the Geological Society of America (GSA). Because of its interdisciplinary nature, this conference is being cosponsored by the Ecological Society of America (ESA) and the Paleontological Society (PS). Here we provide a rationale for NSF funding, which will be used to cover travel and conference costs for key U.S. and international speakers, and to allow for increased graduate student participation. The idea for holding this meeting arose out of long-standing discussions among the conveners concerning the need to increase communication between paleoecologists and ecologists. Long standing splits in departmental affiliation (geology vs. organismal biology), professional society affiliation and training have hampered communication channels between the two disciplines. However the need for such an informational exchange and synthesis has become greater than ever as a result of cross-cutting societal problems such as impending global climate change and loss of biodiversity that will depend on information input from both fields. Through the use of brief formal introductory talks, followed by extensive periods for poster sessions, panel discussions and open workshops we hope to achieve a synthesis of how the two disciplines can interact more effectively in the future. We have two goals for the conference support funding we request from NSF. First, we want to insure that outstanding scientists who share our goals of interdisciplinary synthesis are well represented at the conference. Second, we want to promote this goal in the upcoming generation of graduate students in ecology and paleoecology, by providing them with cross disciplinary contacts early in their careers and breaking down traditional cross -disciplinary barriers that often make this leap more difficult later in one's career.