A Workshop for Integrating Social Science Research, Washington, DC

0625039 Krupnick社会、行为和经济科学（以下简称社会科学）的研究对NSF提出的环境观测站的成功和解决观测站正在解决的“重大挑战”科学问题至关重要。具体到社会科学，人们认识到，更好地决策环境问题需要新的社会科学研究，以了解人类和自然系统的耦合，政策，社会系统和环境系统的反馈，以及基础知识可以为政策提供信息的方式。虽然各个观测站的工作重点是不同的重大挑战和科学问题，但在每一项举措要取得成功必须解决的社会科学问题方面有着广泛的相似性。本次研讨会将汇集来自公共政策，经济学，社会学，人类学和地理学等领域的领先社会科学家，作为建立一个广泛社区的一步，这个社区可以比每个社区单独工作更有效地解决这些共同问题。这是在传感器/传感器网络、网络基础设施和建模的跨EO问题的类似研讨会之后。研讨会将探讨连接倡议及其所代表的科学和工程领域的共同线索。讲习班将制定一项综合活动的战略计划，并讨论支持综合研究议程所需的资源。一个由社会科学家组成的计划委员会将与以下NSF环境观测站“氖、LTER、CLEANER和CUAHSI（水文观测站）”（这些观测站组成了沃茨网络）合作，制定详细的研讨会议程、受邀与会者名单和一份白色文件，该文件将作为研讨会期间大部分讨论的基础。为了方便NSF项目官员参加研讨会，研讨会将于2006年秋季在华盛顿地区举行。

0625039KrupnickResearch in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences (hereafter referred to simply as social sciences) is critically important to the success of NSF's proposed environmental observatories and to resolving the "grand challenge" science questions the observatories are addressing. Specific to the social sciences, there is recognition that better decision-making on environmental issues requires new social science research to understand the coupling of human and natural systems, the feedbacks of policy, social systems, and environmental systems, and the ways that fundamental knowledge can inform policy. Although the individual observatory efforts focus on different grand challenges and science questions, there is broad similarity regarding the kinds of social science issues that each initiative must address to be successful. This workshop will bring together leading social scientists from such fields as public policy, economics, sociology, anthropology, and geography as a step in building a broad community that can address these common issues more efficiently than could be achieved by each community working separately. This follows similar workshops on cross-EO issues for sensors/sensor networks, cyberinfrastructure, and modeling. The workshop will explore common threads connecting the initiatives and the science and engineering domains they represent. The workshop will develop a strategic plan for integrating activities and discuss as the resources needed to support an integrated research agenda. A planning committee of social scientists associated with the following NSF environmental observatories"NEON, LTER, and CLEANER and CUAHSI (Hydrologic Observatories), which comprise the WATERS Network-will develop the detailed workshop agenda, list of invited participants, and a white paper that will serve as the basis for much of the discussion during the workshop. To facilitate participation in the workshop by NSF program officers, the workshop will be held in the Washington DC area in fall of 2006.