RCN: Accelerating development and expansion of a diverse environmental data science community and research agenda

环境科学正变得越来越复杂，需要跨学科的、数据驱动的方法来解决紧迫的研究问题。需要新的环境科学方法，这些方法依赖于开放、透明和可重复的数据科学方法，并优先考虑各种解决问题的方法。随着数据科学社区的不断发展和开发更先进、用户友好的方法来创建可重复的科学，数据科学和环境科学社区之间的协同作用正在出现。虽然这些协同效应已经在特定的项目和机构中有机地发展起来，但还没有一个协调一致的跨学科努力来创建一个共享的空间和研究议程，以团结这个新兴的环境数据科学（EDS）社区，并加速他们的工作。这个研究协调网络将为一个更具凝聚力和协作性的EDS社区奠定基础，超越学科界限，建立一套共同的研究原则和实践，引领这一领域走向未来。年度峰会提供了一个极好的论坛，将这个新兴的研究社区聚集在一起，讨论当前的挑战和机遇，分享前沿方法，并在新的研究方向上进行整合。这些峰会将成为EDS社区的中心，并在未来几年成为新想法和突破的孵化器。国家生态分析与综合中心（NCEAS）的传播团队将通过社交媒体、博客文章和网络研讨会来接触广泛而多样化的受众。根据NCEAS对开放科学的长期承诺，与该网络相关的任何数据和出版物都将通过开放获取门户免费提供。为了让尽可能多的观众参与到年度峰会中来，在主题演讲、全体会议演讲和全体会议讨论期间，将通过直播提供并鼓励虚拟出席，所有主题演讲的录音将在专门的EDS社区YouTube频道上提供。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。

Environmental science is becoming increasingly complex, requiring trans-disciplinary, data-driven approaches to address pressing research questions. New approaches to environmental science are needed, ones that rely on open, transparent, and reproducible data science methodologies and that prioritize diverse ways of problem solving. As the data science community continues to grow and develop more advanced, user-friendly methodologies for creating reproducible science, synergies are emerging between the data science and environmental science communities. While these synergies have developed organically within specific projects and institutions, there has yet to be a concerted, trans-disciplinary effort to create a shared space and research agenda to unite this burgeoning Environmental Data Science (EDS) community and accelerate their work together. This Research Coordination Network will lay a foundation for a more cohesive and collaborative EDS community that reaches beyond disciplinary boundaries and establishes a common set of research principles and practices to lead this field into the future. Annual Summits provide an excellent forum to bring this nascent research community together to discuss current challenges and opportunities, share cutting edge methodologies, and coalesce on new research directions. These Summits will be a hub for the EDS community and an incubator for new ideas and breakthroughs for years to come. The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) communication team will work to reach a broad and diverse audience with social media, blog posts, and webinars. Any data and publications associated with the network will be made freely available through open-access portals, following a long commitment at NCEAS to open science. To allow for the greatest possible audience engagement with the annual summits, virtual attendance during keynote presentations, plenary presentations, and plenary discussions will be available and encouraged via live stream, and recordings of all keynote addresses will be made available on a dedicated EDS Community YouTube Channel.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.