Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology

描述（由申请人提供）：人口与生态学研究中心（CSDE）要求更新其五年中心资助R24基础设施支持。CSDE拥有86所附属学院，其中68所来自西澳大学文理学院、公共卫生学院、社会工作学院、护理学院、公共事务学院和环境学院；剩下的18个在西北部的地区机构：华盛顿州立大学、西华盛顿大学、西雅图大学、巴特尔纪念学院和加拿大维多利亚大学。与这些附属机构一起，CSDE的目标是利用新数据、新概念方法和新技术，推进关于人口基本问题（生育率和家庭变化、移徙、健康和死亡率）的知识，并继续提出有关人口行为和人口结果的新问题。为了实现这一目标，CSDE:(1)提供广泛的高质量的研究服务，支持前沿的人口科学；(2)促进跨学科的合作，产生成果

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE) requests a renewal of its five year center grant R24 infrastructure support. CSDE has 86 faculty affiliates, 68 from UW departments in the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Public Health, School of Social Work, School of Nursing, School of Public Affairs, and College of the Environment; the remaining 18 are at regional institutions in the northwest: Washington State University, Western Washington University, Seattle University, Battelle Memorial Institute, and the University of Victoria, Canada. With these affiliates, CSDE's goal is to advance knowledge on the fundamental issues of demography - fertility and family change, migration, health and mortality - with new data, new conceptual approaches, and new techniques, as well as continuing to ask new questions about demographic behaviors and population outcomes. To accomplish this goal, CSDE: (1) provides a broad range of high quality research services supporting cutting-edge population science, (2) fosters interdisciplinary collaborations that yield innovations in demographic research, (3) develops new demographic research methods in computational and laboratory settings, (4) provides training for researchers at all levels of experience in established and new methods in population science, (5) provides resources and an environment to nurture the development of junior population scientists, (6) disseminates CSDE research to academic and wider communities. Five signature themes describe the research of CSDE's affiliates: (1) Biosocial Contexts of Population Health; (2) Families and Children; (3) Migrants, Minorities and Unequal Opportunities; (4) Population and Environment; (5)Demographic Methods. CSDE will use the R24 application to request continuing support for these research themes through four research infrastructure cores and a developmental infrastructure core: 1) Administration and Information Management Core - provides high quality service in all aspects of support for research administration and information management; 2) Biodemography Core - facilitates the inclusion of biological data in population research, and specializes in developing and optimizing methods suitable for large-scale biomarker collection and measurement in non-clinical settings ; 3) Computing Core - provides cutting edge technical, application, and programming support as well as computing infrastructure to CSDE affiliates, staff, and research assistants;4) Methods and Data Core - supports the research and training activities of CSDE by providing expertise in the choice and implementation of statistical and GIS methodology;5) Developmental Infrastructure Core - promotes new research initiatives, especially for junior researchers, through seed and working group grant wards to CSDE faculty affiliates.