BE/CNH: Intellectual Imperatives in Ethnobiology: Research, Methodology, Analyses, Education, and Funding for a Rapidly Expanding Field

这项工作将汇集生物学家，人类学家和考古学家从事etnobiology研究，与应用数学家一起，以确定未来的方向，以促进该领域的发展和成熟。 讲习班将分为两部分：第一部分是由组织委员会举办的为期3天的外地中级职业领导人讲习班，然后是一个广为宣传的研讨会，开放参加。 讲习班将试图确定研究目标并使其有重点;探索适合于研究植物/动物与人之间相互作用的现代方法;评估和加强多学科数据的定量分析技术;开发跨学科教育模式以培训民族生物学的学生和学者;并制定战略以改善获得学术资金来源的机会。 来自国际人类生物学学会的国际研究伙伴将出席。 与会者将承诺应用研讨会中开发的见解和协作联系，以准备蚀刻生物学方面的竞争性提案，并提交给NSF的相关计划。 其产出将是一份公报，界定人种生物学的知识需要，该公报将广泛分发给专业协会、大学、政府机构和非政府组织，一个更全面和理论性更强的人种生物学学科将有助于解决各种实际问题。 由于研讨会的全球性质和外国参与者的参与，对研究和教育的影响可能是全球范围的。该项目是2001财政年度环境中生物复杂性特别竞赛的一个奖项，重点是耦合自然和人类系统的动力学。

This workship will bring together biologists, anthropologists, and archaeologists engaged in research on etnobiology, together with applied mathematicians, to identify future directions to facilitate growth and maturation on the field. The workshop will be organized in two parts: an initial 3-day workshop of the organizing committee of mid-career leaders in the field, followed by a widely advertised seminar to which attendance will be open. The workshop will attempt to define and focus research objectives; explore modern methodology appropriate for studying plant/animal-people interactions; assess and strengthen techniques for quantitative analyses of multidisciplinary data; develop interdisciplinary education models to train students and practicioners of ethnobiology; and develop strategies to improve access to academic funding sources. International research partners from the International Society of Ethnobiology will attend. The participants will be pledged to apply the insights and collaborative linkages developed in the workshop to preparing competitive proposals in etchnobiology to submit to relevant programs in NSF. The output will be a bulletin defining the intellectual imperatives in ethnobiology, which will be broadly distributed to professional societies, universities, government agencies and nongovernmental organizations.There are a variety of practical problems that would benefit from a more holistic and theoretically strong ethnobiology discipline. Due to the global nature of the workshop and the involvemente of foreign participants, the impact on research and education could be global in scope.This project is an award emananting from the FY 2001 special competition in Biocomplexity in the Envionment focusing on the Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems.