Ecosystem Informatics

IGERT生态系统信息学计划建立在生态系统科学，计算机科学和数学之间的协同作用，在区域，国家和全球自然资源管理和政策的背景下。 信息学-包括建模，数据分析，解释和使用计算机系统管理信息;与生态系统科学相结合;研究复杂系统的生物（生命）和非生物（非生命）组成部分及其相互作用-有助于基础理论以及自然资源政策和管理。 几乎每个参与自然资源和生态系统管理的政府机构、国家和国际组织都在从事生态系统信息学。 该领域是及时的，参与的科学家成功地在这些学科之间进行合作，美国太平洋西北部有许多相关的问题和机构。智力价值：生态系统信息学IGERT计划的目标是：（1）培养年轻科学家，他们将对生态系统科学，计算机科学和数学做出基本贡献;（2）通过团队研究和教育促进发现;（3）通过研究和教育促进发现。以及（3）进一步的生态系统和自然资源管理和政策。该IGERT加强了目前在生态信息学方面的努力，其中许多涉及国家科学基金会赞助的努力（例如LTER，NCEAS，SDSC）。该计划将培养能够在国家和国际组织实习支持下在跨学科团队工作的科学家。 研究工作整合了四个生态系统科学领域：（1）群落的多样性，稳定性和入侵;（2）流域和空气流域的碳和氮通量;（3）景观，海洋和沿海地区的扰动动力学;（4）通过物理网络的物质和能量通量，以及五个信息学领域：（a）模型构建，实验和复制的软件工程;（B）复杂生态系统的表示和建模;（c）信息管理和访问;（d）时空数据库系统;（5）数据挖掘和模式识别。 IGERT计划将培养学生成为杰出的跨学科科学家和生态系统信息学研究团队的有效贡献者。通过跨学科的团队为基础的活动，该计划将提高博士的多样性，招聘和保留。计算机科学、数学和生态系统科学的学生。 它将有助于在区域，国家和国际层面的生态系统管理和政策，通过学生教师团队项目，演示文稿和研讨会，并在美国，欧洲和环太平洋地区的实习。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，在所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中促进研究生教育的文化变革。在该计划的第六个年头，奖项将颁发给由NSF支持的科学和工程领域的机构

This IGERT program in Ecosystem Informatics builds on synergies among ecosystem science, computer science, and mathematics in the context of regional, national and global natural resource management and policy. Informatics - which includes modeling, data analysis, interpretation, and management of information using computerized systems; combined with ecosystem science; and study of the biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) components of complex systems and their interactions - contributes to basic theory as well as natural resource policy and management. Practically every government agency, national and international organization involved in natural resources and ecosystem management is engaged in Ecosystem Informatics. The field is timely, participating scientists are successfully collaborating across these disciplines, and the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. has many pertinent issues and agencies.Intellectual merit: The goals of the Ecosystem Informatics IGERT program are to: (1) train young scientists who will make basic contributions to ecosystem science, computer science, and mathematics; (2) promote discovery through team-based research and education; and (3) further ecosystem and natural resources management and policy. This IGERT enhances current efforts in eco-informatics, many involving NSF-sponsored efforts (e.g. LTER, NCEAS, SDSC). This program will train scientists who can work on interdisciplinary teams, supported by internships at national and international organizations. Research efforts integrate four ecosystem science areas of (1) diversity, stability, and invasion in communities; (2) carbon and nitrogen fluxes in watersheds and airsheds; (3) disturbance dynamics in landscapes, oceans, and coastal zones; and (4) fluxes of material and energy through physical networks, with five areas of informatics: (a) software engineering for model construction, experimentation, and replication; (b) representation and modeling of complex ecosystems; (c) information management and access; (d) spatio-temporal database systems; and (5) data mining and pattern recognition.Broader impacts: Ecosystem Informatics is largely missing from graduate education today. The IGERT program will train students to become outstanding interdisciplinary scientists and effective contributors to ecosystem informatics research teams. Through cross-disciplinary team-based activities the program will improve diversity, recruitment and retention of Ph.D. students in computer science, mathematics, and ecosystem science. It will contribute to ecosystem management and policy at the regional, national and international levels through student-faculty team projects, presentations and symposia, and internships across the US, Europe, and the Pacific Rim.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. In this sixth year of the program, awards are being made to institutions for programs that collectively span the areas of science and engineering supported by NSF