Eco-Informatics for Decision Making Workshop

该奖项资助一个研讨会，汇集来自政府和非政府组织，计算机科学家，社会科学家，生态学家和生物学家，以及资助和使命机构的生态和环境决策者，以解决如何利用生态信息学的新兴领域来帮助解决生态和环境决策者的问题。需要解决的信息技术问题包括：数据差距、数据列报以及如何使用或创建适当的指标。 研讨会讨论的计算机科学研究领域包括：信息集成，建模和模拟，数据质量，本体论，以人为本的问题，如培训，技术转让，信息提供和使用的最佳实践，以及决策者和信息提供者的人性化软件。来自资源管理、计算机科学和社会科学研究以及使命机构的35名与会者将出席会议。讲习班的主要成果是将于2005年1月广泛分发的一份报告，其中界定了生态和环境决策者面临的问题、可能开始解决这些问题的研究以及对具体决策情景的可能影响。其目的是帮助来自使命和研究资助机构的项目官员更好地了解新的信息产品和信息技术如何促进更好的生态和环境决策。 资源管理人员和决策者将有机会阐明问题，并看到这些问题在报告中得到表达;他们将更好地了解信息技术的现状，以及技术对未来改进的承诺。来自研究界的参与者将了解新的研究问题和竞争机会。 决策者和研究人员都将有机会了解潜在的合作者。 该报告将简要说明如何将新的研究和资源管理政策纳入生态学，生物学，计算机科学，社会科学，数学和工程学的课程设计中，并由学生在研讨会上提供后勤支持的报告提供信息。

This award funds a workshop to bring together ecological and environmental decision makers from government and non-government organizations, computer scientists, social scientists, ecologists and biologists, and funding and mission agencies to address how the emerging area of eco-informatics can be harnessed to help solve problems of ecological and environmental decision makers. Information technology issues to be addressed include: data gaps, data presentation, and how to use or create appropriate indicators. Computer science research areas to be included in the workshop discussion are: information integration, modeling and simulation, data quality, ontologies, human-centered issues such as training, technology transfer, best practices for information provision and use, and human-friendly software for decision makers and information providers. Thirty-five participants from the resource management, computer science and social science research, and mission agencies will attend. The primary outcome of the workshop is a January 2005 report to be widely disseminated, defining the problems faced by ecological and environmental decision makers, the research that might begin to address those problems, and the likely impact on specific decision making scenarios. The aim is to help program officers from mission and research funding agencies better understand how new information products and information technology can foster better ecological and environmental decisions. Resource managers and decisions makers will have the opportunity to articulate problems and see them expressed in the report; they will gain a better understanding of the current state of the art of information technology, and what promise technology has to offer for future improvements. Participants from the research community will learn about new research problems and competitive opportunities. Both decision makers and researchers will have opportunities to learn about potential collaborators. The report will briefly address how new research and resource management policy might be integrated into curricular design in ecology, biology, computer science, social science, mathematics, and engineering, to be informed by a report from students providing logistical support at the workshop.