Workshop to Enhance Collaboration Between US and Indonesia in Biodiversity and Conservation Research

除了地球上生命的固有价值之外，我们所有人的福祉都依赖于生物多样性。多样化和健康的生态系统是许多人生计的基础，它们提供清洁的空气和水，提供娱乐和旅游机会，并且是自然灾害的缓冲。生物多样性也是我们食物的基础，世界上大部分地区？美国药品和许多我们依赖的产品。随着对世界生物群生存和健康的全球性威胁日益增加，记录、理解和保护生物多样性对世界的环境和经济健康至关重要。本次研讨会旨在让美国生物多样性研究人员参与并为广泛的国际和跨学科合作以及基础设施和预测工具的开发做好准备，这些基础设施和预测工具可以帮助解决全球和美国紧迫的生物多样性研究和保护需求。该研讨会将在印度尼西亚举行，印度尼西亚是一个拥有大量全球生物多样性的地区。它让美国和印度尼西亚的科学家在生物多样性科学的各个学科工作，讨论和制定战略，如何最好地合作，努力继续发现、记录、理解和保护生物多样性，同时也考虑到人类的需求。研讨会的主题将包括建立和管理成功的合作，数据共享，将新技术应用于基本的生态和进化问题以及应用保护问题，以及培训处于不同职业阶段的有价值的新技术的学生和研究人员。讲习班最直接的成果将是一份出版物，确定共同和互补的兴趣领域，综合挑战和机会，并建议生物多样性研究的未来步骤。最终目标是建立富有成效的国际研究伙伴关系，允许在全球范围内对生态系统及其所包含的生物多样性进行协作和全面研究，促进国际交流和对学生和专业人员的关键培训，最终导致解决全球问题的更成功的方法。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Beyond the inherent value of life on earth, we all depend on biodiversity for our own well-being. Diverse and healthy ecosystems are the basis of many livelihoods, they provide clean air and water, offer recreational and tourism opportunities, and are a buffer to natural disasters. Biodiversity is also the basis for our food, much of the world?s medicine and many of the products we rely on. With increasing global threats to the survival and health of the world's biota, it is crucial to the environmental and economic health of the world to document, understand, and conserve biodiversity. This workshop aims to engage and prepare US biodiversity researchers for broad international and interdisciplinary collaborations and the development of infrastructure and predictive tools that can help address pressing biodiversity research and conservation needs globally, and in the US.This workshop will take place in Indonesia, as a region that hosts a disproportionately large amount of global biodiversity. It engages US and Indonesian scientists working across disciplines of biodiversity science to discuss and strategize how to best collaborate in efforts to continue to discover, document, understand, and conserve biodiversity in a way that also considers human needs. Topics of the workshop will include building and managing successful collaborations, data sharing, applying new technologies to basic ecological and evolutionary questions as well as applied conservation issues, and training students and researchers at various career stages in valuable new technologies. The most immediate outcome of the workshop will be a publication identifying common and complementary areas of interests, synthesizing challenges and opportunities and recommending future steps in biodiversity research. The ultimate goal is to establish productive international research partnerships allowing for collaborative and comprehensive study of ecosystems and the biodiversity they encompass in a global context and facilitate international exchange and critical training of students and professionals, ultimately leading to more successful approaches for addressing global problems.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.