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

泛美高级研究所（PASI）由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和美国能源部（DOE）联合支持，将于2007年初在哥斯达黎加圣何塞举行，主题为国际合作生物多样性和生态信息学的网络基础设施。由博士组织。佛罗里达国际大学的Julio Ibarra和堪萨斯大学的James H. Beach，该研究所将涉及来自美国和拉丁美洲的大约30名参与者，包括研究生，初级和成熟的研究人员，以及大约12名讲师（国际公认的科学家，活跃在该领域）。活动将包括辅导讲座、专题报告、圆桌讨论和海报会议，目的是为参加者提供最新的发展和应用以互联网为基础的网络基础设施工具进行环境研究合作的回顾。生态信息学是一门为21世纪环境研究奠定网络基础设施基础的研究学科。基于ci的研究合作将可能成为未来环境科学研究的主要机制。广泛的应用和材料将使该研究所具有重要的跨学科性质，并应促进新思想的相互交流，以推动该领域的发展，并最终加强拉丁美洲初级和高级研究人员与美国同行之间的关系。在该研究所提交的材料将刊登在一个指定的网站上，以便进一步向科学界和广大公众传播。

0617616BeachThis 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.