National Center For Ecological Synthesis

Issue: 
Network News Spring 1993, Vol. 13 No. 1
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Network News

The joint Ecological Society of America (ESA)-Association of Ecological Research Centers (AERC) Committee on Ecological Synthesis has issued its report to the National Science Foundation, National Center for Ecological Synthesis: Scientific Objectives, Structure, and Implementation.

Based on a workshop attended by a diverse group of 45 ecologists in October 1992, the report recommends a broad scientific agenda for the Center. The Center’s projects would involve the diversity of ecological subdisciplines as well as key interdisciplinary links with atmospheric, biological, earth, oceanic, and social sciences. The report outlines the scientific mission of the Center, and compares alternative organizational models and mechanisms for implementing a national center for ecological synthesis.

Members of the ESA-AERC Committee on Ecological Synthesis are Jim Brown (co-chair), Steve Carpenter (co-chair), Simon Levin, Patrice Morrow, and William Schlesinger.

The report was prepared by a subcommittee of workshop attendees including Jim Brown, Steve Carpenter (chair), Kay Gross, Joel Kingsolver, Simon Levin, Jim MacMahon, Patrice Morrow, and Paul Risser. Also in attendance at the workshop were AERC President One Loucks and John Hobbie, organizer of a 1989 AERC workshop on the topic.

For a copy of the report, write to: Linda Holthaus, Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin, 680 N. Park Street, Madison WI 53706-1492.