See below some information about a relatively new initiative at NSF.
I've been asked to survey the ecological community for ideas that could
be taken up by the workshop. In specific, are there kinds of software
or hardware (e.g., sensors) that you either wish you had but aren't
currently available, or that exist in some form now but you think need
to be more efficient (longer battery life for sensors? Wireless
capability?) Or are there some categories of sensors you think would
expand ecologists' abilities to study the environment if they were
available? (Sensors for particular applications at great depths in the
oceans?) Or some kind of software or hardware that would facilitate
studies of sustainability (remote monitoring of fish populations?).
This is an opportunity for brainstorming that could lead to future
development of the resources identified.
Feel free to respond via ECOLOG-L or to me individually. Thanks for
your feedback.
David
In FY 2011, NSF's Directorate for Computer and Information Science
(CISE) will invest $29.36 million in the NSF-wide Science, Engineering
and Education in Sustainability (SEES) portfolio to integrate efforts in
climate and energy science and engineering. CISE will contribute to this
agency-wide effort with an emphasis on energy-efficient and sustainable
computing. Specific areas of interest to CISE include energy-intelligent
computing to optimize energy-computational performance in computing and
communications systems and explore the use of information technology in
smart sensing systems that promise to save energy and reduce greenhouse
gas emissions. Research areas supported by CISE may be found at:
http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2011/pdf/06-CISE_fy2011.pdf
<http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2011/pdf/06-CISE_fy2011.pdf> :
In order to flesh out research challenges to be highlighted by the CISE
SEES effort across the broad spectrum of sustainability, NSF plans to
hold a two-day workshop in February 2011 in Washington DC that will
assemble researchers from academia, industry and government and generate
a document that can be used as a basis for further activities by CISE
for FY 2011 and beyond.
David W. Inouye
Program Director
Population and Community Ecology Cluster
Division of Environmental Biology
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd, Suite 635
Arlington, VA 22230
Phone: 703.292.8570
Fax: 703.292.9064
E-mail: [email protected]
