Meeting: The world is not flat: Accounting for the dynamic nature of the environment as we move beyond static experimental manipulations - January 3-7, 2019, Tampa, FL

动物生活的世界在不断变化，需要对环境变量的可预测变化做出反应，如温度、食物供应或潮汐周期。虽然对环境变异性的生理反应得到了广泛的认可，但研究往往以一种试图将变异性降至最低的方式进行。然而，越来越明显的是，为了充分了解生物体与其环境的相互作用，需要研究方法来探索自然变化或在更自然的环境条件下进行的实验(例如，每日和每年的温度波动)如何影响对这种变化的生理机制和反应。最近，一些研究人员将他们的重点转向试图将环境变化纳入生理和行为研究。毫不奇怪，这些研究发现，包括环境变异在内的研究结果与不包括环境变异的研究结果有很大不同。这次研讨会的目标是强调在研究考虑到这些通常是戏剧性的变化时所获得的重要见解，并鼓励未来的研究，这些研究是更好地理解动物，包括许多经济上重要的物种，如何应对不断变化的环境所必需的。这次研讨会的目的是让研究人员聚集在一起，研究不同的分类群和生态系统。本次研讨会将包括从研究生到全职教授等不同职业阶段的研究人员，所有演讲者将在《综合与比较生物学》特刊中传播这些发现。几乎所有的动物都会经历环境中戏剧性的、往往是可预见的变化，这要求个体的生理和行为发生响应性的变化。然而，许多旨在了解进化和生态对感兴趣的环境或生理变量的反应的研究试图控制和减少变异。一些例子包括在孵化期间在连续温度下对具有环境性别决定的物种进行卵子孵化，或者旨在较长时间内保持相对恒定循环水平的激素植入。无论是在实验室还是在野外进行，这些研究都提供了关于影响生理和行为的机械关系的关键信息，这些关系反过来又影响个人健康的变化，尽管提供的关于环境变化的直接影响的信息有限。了解动物为什么以及如何应对环境变化，是认识到导致选择所能作用的变异的来源和后续反应的关键。这次研讨会利用了比较生理学中长期存在的问题(例如，动物如何应对环境的变化？)，但从现代的角度来探讨这些问题。这组发言者代表了不同的科学家群体。除了主要的研讨会外，还将宣传一个专门针对学生受训人员的贡献会议，并将努力通过在诸如推进奇卡诺人/拉美裔美国人和美洲原住民科学协会(SACNAS)等组织中的公告来接触到代表不足的群体。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The world that animals live in is constantly changing, requiring responses to predictable changes in environmental variables such as temperature, food availability or tidal cycles. While physiological responses to environmental variability are widely acknowledged, research is often conducted in a manner that attempts to minimize that variability. It is becoming evident however that to fully understand an organism's interaction with its environment, research approaches are needed that explore how natural variation or experiments conducted under more natural environmental regimes (e.g. daily and annual fluctuations in temperature) affects physiological mechanisms and responses to this variation. Recently, a number of investigators have turned their focus towards attempting to incorporate environmental variation into studies of physiology and behavior. Not surprisingly these studies are finding that the results from studies that include environmental variation differ substantially from those that do not. The goal of this symposium is to highlight important insights that are gained when studies take into account these, often dramatic, changes and to stimulate future research that is needed to better understand how animals, including many economically important species, may cope with changing environments. The symposium is designed to bring together researchers working across taxa and ecosystems. This symposium will include a diverse range of researchers that span career stages from graduate student to full professor, and all speakers will disseminate these findings in a special issue of Integrative and Comparative Biology. Nearly all animals experience dramatic, often predictable, changes in their environment that requires responsive changes in an individual's physiology and behavior. Yet many studies aimed at understanding evolutionary and ecological responses to an environmental or physiological variable of interest seek to control and minimize variation. Some examples include the incubation of eggs in species with environmental sex determination under continuous temperatures through the duration of incubation, or hormone implants aimed at maintaining relatively constant circulating levels for an extended period of time. Whether conducted in the laboratory or the field, these studies have provided critical information about the mechanistic relationships that influence physiology and behavior that, in turn, influence variation in individual fitness, despite providing limited information on the direct effects of environmental variation. Understanding why and how animals cope with environmental changes is key to recognizing the sources and subsequent responses that give rise to the variation that selection can act upon. This symposium draws on longstanding questions in comparative physiology (e.g., how do animals cope with environmental variability?), but approaches those questions from a modern perspective. The group of speakers represent a diverse group of scientists. In addition to the main symposium, a contributed session will be advertised that will specifically target student trainees, and efforts will be made to reach out to underrepresented groups through announcements in organizations such as the Society for Advancing Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.