Workshop: The Past, Present, and Future of NSF's Macrosystems Biology Program, August 5-6, 2015, Arlington, Virginia

该奖项将部分涵盖参与者支持2015年宏观系统生物学（MSB）首席研究员会议8月5日至6日在美国国家科学基金会总部在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿。这是根据目前的计划征求最后一次MSB会议。会议的目标包括突出计划的成功和讨论MSB科学的未来方向。约10名参加者将按个别需要获得资助。纳入这些参与者将有助于确保MSB项目的充分参与，并在计划过程中全面评估MSB科学的进展，从而促进实现会议目标。大规模的大气-生物圈反馈和相互作用是预测未来气候变化影响的一个很大的不确定性来源。MSB计划通过鼓励与计算机科学，地理学，气候学，生物学和生态学研究人员的跨学科合作，成为理解这一问题的催化剂。MSB计划目前处于中断状态，以重新评估计划优先级并重组未来的迭代。这次MSB会议将是这一进程的一个组成部分，因为它将突出成功，并讨论MSB研究的后勤挑战。本提案中要求的参与者支持对于允许更多的参与和反思不同的MSB项目组尤为重要。了解气候变化下的大气-生物圈相互作用和反馈是社会面临的迫切需要。然而，这种大规模的理解需要跨学科的方法，因为在时间和空间上放大观测和模型预测的复杂性。MSB计划的形成是为了满足这一需求，并提供一个场所，以支持跨学科的合作。在这次会议上，与会者将通过一系列口头和海报介绍和分组会议，反思MSB类型研究的成功和未来面临的挑战。

This award will partially cover participant support for the 2015 MacroSystem Biology (MSB) principal investigator meeting on August 5-6 at NSF headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. This is the last MSB meeting under the current program solicitation. Goals of the meeting include highlighting program successes and discussing future directions for MSB science. Support will be allocated to about 10 participants on a case need basis. Inclusion of these participants will facilitate achieving meeting goals by helping to ensure full participation of MSB projects and enabling full assessment the progress of MSB science over the course of the program. Large-scale atmosphere-biosphere feedbacks and interactions are a large source of uncertainty in predicting the impact of future climate change. The MSB program has served as a catalyst to understand this issue by encouraging interdisciplinary collaborations with researchers in computer science, geography, climatology, biology and ecology. The MSB program is currently on hiatus to reassess program priorities and restructure future iterations. This MSB meeting will be an integral part of this process, as it will highlight the successes and discuss logistical challenges for MSB research. Participant support requested in this proposal is especially important for allowing greater participation and reflection among the diverse group of MSB projects.Understanding atmosphere-biosphere interactions and feedbacks under a changing climate is an urgent need facing society. However, such large scale understanding requires an interdisciplinary approach because of the complexity of scaling up observations and model predictions in time and space. The MSB program was formed in order to address this need and to provide a venue to support inter-disciplinary collaborations. At this meeting, participants will reflect upon the successes of and challenges facing MSB type research in the future through a series of oral and poster presentations and breakout sessions.