PASI on Patterns and Mechanisms of Change in Neotropical Forests: La Selva as a Case Study, Costa Rica, April-May 2009

这项由美国国家科学基金会和能源部共同支持的泛美高级研究所（PASI）奖将于2009年4月至5月在哥斯达黎加的拉塞尔瓦生物站举行。 由杜克大学的伊丽莎白·洛索斯博士组织的PASI将讨论新热带森林变化的模式和机制。更具体地说，该PASI将侧重于与确定和记录森林变化有关的当前和未来研究方向，包括森林和河流动态，动物种群，遥感和基于GIS的调查，气候变化和碳平衡，海拔样带保护区作为全球变暖时期物种损失缓冲区的作用，土壤和微生物生态学，以及嵌入式传感器阵列的使用。该活动将为热带研究组织（OTS）挑选的多元化学生群体提供参加世界之一的热带生物学实地教育项目的机会？主要的研究站。 这一PASI的预期成果将包括发展一个拥有基本信息的从业人员核心小组，他们知道如何产生知识，并能够将其知识传播给更多的人。 PASI的结果将通过PASI网站发布，该网站将与OTS和其他网站链接。

This Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes (PASI) award, jointly supported by the NSF and the Department of Energy (DOE), will take place April-May, 2009 at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica. Organized by Dr. Elizabeth Losos of Duke University, the PASI will address patterns and mechanisms of changes in neotropical forests. More specifically, this PASI will focus on current and future research directions related to identifying and documenting forest change, including forest and stream dynamics, animal populations, remote sensing and GIS-based inquiry, climate change, and carbon balance, the role of altitudinal transect reserves as buffers against species loss in a time of global warming, soil and microbial ecology, and the use of embedded sensor arrays.The activity will provide a diverse group of students selected by the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) with opportunities to participate in field-based educational programs in tropical biology at one of the world?s major research stations. Expected outcomes in this PASI will include the development of a core group of practitioners with essential information, who know how to generate knowledge and can communicate their knowledge to the larger population. The PASI results will be disseminated through a PASI website which will be linked to the OTS and other websites.