Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI): Cyberinfrastructure for International Collaborative Biodiversity and Ecological Informatics; Costa Rica; 2007

这个泛美高级研究所(PASI)由国家科学基金会和能源部(DOE)共同支持，将于2007年初在哥斯达黎加圣何塞举行，主题是促进国际合作的生物多样性和生态信息学的网络基础设施。该研究所由佛罗里达国际大学的胡里奥·伊巴拉博士和堪萨斯大学的詹姆斯·H·比奇博士分别组织，将有来自美国和拉丁美洲的大约30名参与者，包括研究生和初级和成熟的调查人员，以及大约12名教员(活跃在该领域的国际公认的科学家)。这些活动将包括辅导讲座、高级专题介绍、圆桌讨论和海报会议，目的是向与会者提供关于环境研究协作的基于因特网的网络基础设施工具的开发和应用的最新审查。生态信息学是一门正在为21世纪的环境研究建立网络基础设施基础的研究学科。基于CI的研究合作很可能是未来环境科学研究的主要机制。广泛的应用和材料将赋予研究所重要的跨学科性质，并应促进促进该领域发展的新思想的交流，并最终加强拉丁美洲初级和高级调查人员与美国同行之间的关系。提交给研究所的材料将张贴在指定的网站上，以便进一步向科学界和广大公众传播。

0617469IbarraThis Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI), jointly supported by the NSF and Department of Energy (DOE), will take place in San Jose, Costa Rica, in early 2007 on the topic of cyberinfrastructure for international collaborative biodiversity and ecological informatics. Organized by Drs. Julio Ibarra and James H. Beach of Florida International University and the University of Kansas respectively, the institute will involve approximately 30 participants from the United States and Latin America including graduate students and junior and established investigators, and about 12 instructors (internationally recognized scientists, active in the field). The activities will consist of a combination of tutorial lectures, advanced-topic presentations, round table discussions, and poster sessions, with the goal of providing the participants with an up-to-date review of the development and application of Internet-based cyberinfrastructure tools for environmental research collaboration. Ecological informatics is a research discipline that is building the cyberinfrastucture foundations for environmental research in the 21st century. CI-based research collaboration will likely be a predominant mechanism for investigations in the environmental sciences in the future. The wide range of applications and materials will impart a significant interdisciplinary nature to the Institute, and should foster the cross-fertilization of new ideas to advance the field and, ultimately, increase relations between Latin American junior and senior investigators and their counterparts in the U.S. Materials presented at the Institute will be posted in a designated web site for further dissemination to the scientific community and the public at large.