AccelNet-Implementation: Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructure (GERI): Harmonizing Data to address Ecological Drought

由于气候变化、人类用水和土地利用的变化，干旱正变得越来越普遍。它对生态系统和人们的福祉有重大影响，但关于它对生态系统和社会的影响，我们仍然有很多不知道的东西。为了加深我们的理解，世界各地都建立了环境研究基础设施(ERIS)来收集关键数据。这些ERI为研究干旱和其他环境变化如何在不同地区和较长时间内影响自然提供了一个独特的机会。来自世界不同地区的六个ERI汇聚在一起，组成了全球生态系统研究基础设施(GERI)。GERI的目标是促进这些网络之间的合作和信息共享。其目的是在不同国家和文化之间建立有效的交流途径。这项建议建立在他们以前工作的基础上，并试图通过几种方式利用这一全球合作：首先，这项工作旨在通过与其他研究网络的密切合作来加强和扩大国际合作。第二个重点将是利用合作伙伴ERIS共享的数据在全球范围内研究干旱问题。这种方法将使他们能够深入了解干旱如何影响世界各地的生态系统。第三，该项目寻求通过将来自不同国家的科学家和利益相关者聚集在一起来加速科学发现。最后，我们将通过组织研讨会和创造更多的合作机会来培训和支持下一代研究人员。总体而言，研究网络之间的这种合作将通过促进全球范围内的知识和数据交流，帮助更好地了解干旱对生态系统和人类生活的影响。干旱正日益受到人为气候变化、人类用水和不断扩大的土地利用变化的影响，正在进入不熟悉的领域。尽管干旱对生态系统功能和人类福祉产生了影响，但我们对干旱对生态系统和人类影响的理解仍存在很大的不确定性。在过去的十年里，世界各地实施了大型环境研究基础设施(ERI)，以推动对生物圈对环境变化的反应的了解。这些新兴的ERI现在提供了一个独特的机会来促进我们对生态过程的理解，例如跨越大陆、几十年和学科边界的干旱。在此背景下，来自世界各地的六个ERI汇聚一堂，建立了一个国际网络对网络合作--全球生态系统研究基础设施(GERI)。GERI活动的重点是争取支持和建立跨大洲和跨文化交流的基线途径。这项提议扩展了以前的活动，以实现全球网络对网络协作的力量：(1)通过吸引中美洲的新合作伙伴和继续现有的伙伴关系，进一步发展和利用战略性的国际网络对网络协作；(2)通过对全球范围内的生态干旱的战略性初步关注，展示协调一致的GERI数据的效用；(3)通过聚集国际利益攸关方和研究人员来指导这些数据的协调，并利用它们来促进知识的发展，从而加速科学发现；以及(4)通过讲习班、培训、这一奖项反映了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。

Drought is increasingly becoming more common due to climate change, human water usage, and changes in land use. It has significant impacts on ecosystems and people's well-being, but there is still much we don't know about its effects on ecosystems and society. To deepen our understanding, Environmental Research Infrastructures (ERIs) have been established worldwide to collect critical data. These ERIs provide a unique opportunity to study how drought and other environmental changes impact nature across different regions and over extended periods of time. Six of these ERIs from different parts of the world have come together to form the Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructure (GERI). GERI's objective is to foster collaboration and information sharing among these networks. The aim is to establish effective communication pathways between different countries and cultures. This proposal builds upon their previous work and seeks to capitalize on this global collaboration in several ways: Firstly, this work aims to strengthen and expand international collaborations by working closely with other research networks. The second focus will be on studying drought on a global scale using the data shared across the partner ERIs. This approach will enable them to gain insights into how drought impacts ecosystems worldwide. Thirdly, this project seeks to accelerate scientific discoveries by bringing scientists and stakeholders from different countries together. Finally, we will train and support the next generation of researchers by organizing workshops and creating more opportunities for collaboration. Overall, this collaboration between research networks will contribute to a better understanding of the effects of drought on ecosystems and human life by facilitating the exchange of knowledge and data on a global scale.Increasingly influenced by anthropogenic climate change, human water use, and expanding land-use change, drought is entering unfamiliar territory. Despite the influence of drought on ecosystem function, and human well-being, there are significant uncertainties in our understanding of the impacts of drought for ecosystems and humanity. Over the past decade, large Environmental Research Infrastructures (ERIs) have been implemented around the world to drive understanding of the responses of the biosphere to environmental change. These emergent ERIs now provide a unique opportunity to advance our understanding of ecological processes, such as drought, across continents, decades, and disciplinary boundaries. Against this backdrop, six ERIs from around the world have come together to establish an international network-to-network collaboration – the Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructure (GERI). GERI activities have focused on garnering support and establishing baseline pathways for communications across continents and cultures. This proposal expands upon previous activities to realize the power of global network to network collaborations by: (i) further developing and leveraging strategic international network-to-network collaborations via engaging new partners in Central America and continuing existing partnerships, (ii) demonstrating the utility of harmonized GERI data via a strategic initial focus on ecological drought at a global scale, (iii) accelerating scientific discovery by bringing together international stakeholders and researchers to guide the harmonization of these data and use them to advance knowledge, and (iv) preparing the next generation of researchers in this network-of-network approach via workshops, training, and enhanced opportunities for collaboration.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.