المؤلفون: Mather, Martha E, Granco, Gabriel, Bergtold, Jason S, Caldas, Marcellus M, Stamm, Jessica L Heier, Sheshukov, Aleksey Y, Sanderson, Matthew R, Daniels, Melinda D

المصدر: BioScience; Dec2023, Vol. 73 Issue 12, p891-905, 15p

مصطلحات موضوعية: COOPERATIVE research, GRADUATE education, RESEARCH teams, RESEARCH personnel, TEAMS

مستخلص: Scientific experts from different disciplines often struggle to mesh their specialized perspectives into the shared mindset that is needed to address difficult and persistent environmental, ecological, and societal problems. Many traditional graduate programs provide excellent research and technical skill training. However, these programs often do not teach a systematic way to learn team skills, nor do they offer a protocol for identifying and tackling increasingly integrated interdisciplinary (among disciplines) and transdisciplinary (among researchers and stakeholders) questions. As a result, professionals trained in traditional graduate programs (e.g. current graduate students and employed practitioners) may not have all of the collaborative skills needed to advance solutions to difficult scientific problems. In the present article, we illustrate a tractable, widely implementable structured process called RISE that accelerates the development of these missing skills. The RISE process (Route to Identifying, learning, and practicing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary team Skills to address difficult Environmental problems) can be used by diverse teams as a tool for research, professional interactions, or training. RISE helps professionals with different expertise learn from each other by repeatedly asking team-developed questions that are tested using an interactive quantitative tool (e.g. agent-based models, machine learning, case studies) applied to a shared problem framework and data set. Outputs from the quantitative tool are then discussed and interpreted as a team, considering all team members' perspectives, disciplines, and expertise. After this synthesis, RISE is repeated with new questions that the team jointly identified in earlier data interpretation discussions. As a result, individual perspectives, originally informed by disciplinary training, are complemented by a shared understanding of team function and elevated interdisciplinary knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Suryanarayanan, Sainath, Kleinman, Daniel Lee, Gratton, Claudio, Toth, Amy, Guedot, Christelle, Groves, Russell, Piechowski, John, Moore, Brad, Hagedorn, Deborah, Kauth, Dayton

المصدر: BioScience; Dec2018, Vol. 68 Issue 12, p990-995, 6p

مصطلحات موضوعية: COOPERATIVE research, HONEYBEES, BEEKEEPERS, FARMERS, SCIENTISTS

مستخلص: We develop a transdisciplinary deliberative model that moves beyond traditional scientific collaborations to include nonscientists in designing complexity-oriented research. We use the case of declining honey bee health as an exemplar of complex real-world problems requiring cross-disciplinary intervention. Honey bees are important pollinators of the fruits and vegetables we eat. In recent years, these insects have been dying at alarming rates. To prompt the reorientation of research toward the complex reality in which bees face multiple challenges, we came together as a group, including beekeepers, farmers, and scientists. Over a 2-year period, we deliberated about how to study the problem of honey bee deaths and conducted field experiments with bee colonies. We show trust and authority to be crucial factors shaping such collaborative research, and we offer a model for structuring collaboration that brings scientists and nonscientists together with the key objects and places of their shared concerns across time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: Julia Byrd, Laura Oremland, Leda Cunningham, Jennifer L. Shirk, Amber Von Harten, John T Carmichael, Rick Bonney

المصدر: Bioscience

مصطلحات موضوعية: 0106 biological sciences, Government, Forum, AcademicSubjects/SCI00010, Process (engineering), 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology, media_common.quotation_subject, Fishing, cooperative research, sustainability, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, fisheries management, collaborative science, citizen science, Sustainability, Citizen science, AcademicSubjects/SOC02100, Resource management, Quality (business), Business, Fisheries management, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental planning, media_common

الوصف: Increasing costs are challenging the capacity for resource management agencies to keep up with mounting needs for robust data about fish populations and their habitats. Furthermore, trust among scientists, government agencies, and the public is fundamental to effective fisheries management, and relations among these three groups are increasingly strained when decisions about fishing limits are made (or are perceived to be made) on the basis of limited information or analysis. In the South Atlantic region of the United States, the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council has begun building a citizen science program to increase the quantity and quality of data used for fisheries management decisions throughout the region and to build trust and foster mutual understanding among those involved in the process. The goal is to build on existing management infrastructure to address key challenges to managing fisheries for long-term sustainability. In the present article, we examine the collaborative process used to establish the program.

URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::d6d29a03200bf23e285d51d61d524871
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33986634

المؤلفون: Rissler, Leslie J., Adamec, John

المصدر: BioScience; Sep2014, Vol. 64 Issue 9, p837-843, 7p

مصطلحات موضوعية: SATISFACTION, PEER review of research grant proposals, SCIENTIFIC community, COOPERATIVE research, RESEARCH funding, UNIVERSITY research, DEADLINES

الشركة/الكيان: NATIONAL Science Foundation (U.S.)

مستخلص: The Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) and the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) at the National Science Foundation recently made three key changes to the core program review process: a new preliminary proposal requirement, a cap on the number of proposals that principal investigators (PIs) submit per cycle, and a switch to an annual deadline. We queried the scientific community on their level of satisfaction with key facets of the new system and their perception of the consequences. We received 4736 responses (a 24% response rate). Our results show that there was no qualitative difference in reported satisfaction between the PIs in DEB and IOS. The preliminary proposal requirement was viewed most favorably, and the switch to a single annual deadline elicited the most dissatisfaction. Continued monitoring of these early trends through time will be important to ensure that funds are allocated fairly in support of the best science. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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المؤلفون: PENNINGTON, DEANA D., SIMPSON, GARY L., McCONNELL, MARJORIE S., FAIR, JEANNE M., BAKER, ROBERT J.

المصدر: BioScience; Jul2013, Vol. 63 Issue 7, p564-573, 10p

مصطلحات موضوعية: INTERDISCIPLINARY research, TRANSFORMATIVE learning, HANTAVIRUSES, BIOCOMPLEXITY, COOPERATIVE research, PUBLIC health research

مستخلص: The relationship between inter- and transdisciplinary research and potentially transformative science is poorly understood. We use a case study of a long-term transdisciplinary research effort on hantaviruses combined with findings from studies of team science to generate a hypothesized model that links cross-disciplinary collaboration with transformative scientific outcomes. We show that potentially transformative research depends on the existence of an interesting and worthwhile problem to which participants can contribute in salient ways, human and material foundations within disciplines, collaborative mutualism across disciplines, and a transformative learning process that enables knowledge integration across diverse perspectives. Transformative learning theory suggests that new, integrated conceptual understanding is initiated by disorienting dilemmas. We argue that engagement in cross-disciplinary collaboration produces disorienting dilemmas that initiate transformative learning. Our hypothesized model provides a generalized framework for understanding how transformative learning occurs in cross-disciplinary collaboration and how that can lead to transformative science [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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المؤلفون: HAMPTON, STEPHANIE E., STRASSER, CARLY A., TEWKSBURY, JOSHUA J.

المصدر: BioScience; Feb2013, Vol. 63 Issue 2, p69-71, 3p

مصطلحات موضوعية: ECOLOGICAL forecasting, CITIZEN science, COOPERATIVE research, SCIENTIFIC communication, ECOLOGY, DIVERSITY in the workplace, ECOLOGISTS, CONFERENCES & conventions

الشركة/الكيان: ECOLOGICAL Society of America

مستخلص: The authors explore the future of ecology as discussed at the 2012 annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, focusing on issues such as the need for ecologists to collaborate with corporations and citizen scientists, the importance of communication skills, and promoting diversity in the ecological workforce. They argue that ecologists should prioritize data data collection and management to develop a predictive, evidence-based discipline of ecology.

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المؤلفون: BEARDSLEY, TIMOTHY M.

المصدر: BioScience; Sep2013, Vol. 63 Issue 9, p695-695, 2/3p

مصطلحات موضوعية: INTERDISCIPLINARY research, PRODUCTIVITY accounting, RATING of scientists, SCIENTIFIC communication, COOPERATIVE research, SURVEYS

مستخلص: The author reflects on an article within the issue by Eric D. Roy and his colleagues on the challenges facing career scientists who want to pursue interdisciplinary research. He notes that many of the scientists participating in Roy and colleagues' survey cited institutional barriers as the major challenge and discusses the tensions and problems of communicating with prospective colleagues in different disciplines and the impact of interdisciplinary collaboration on productivity assessments.

المؤلفون: BEARDSLEY, TIMOTHY M.

المصدر: BioScience; Jul2013, Vol. 63 Issue 7, p511-511, 1p

مصطلحات موضوعية: INTERDISCIPLINARY research, SCIENTIFIC communication, COOPERATIVE research, SPATIAL orientation, PSYCHOLOGICAL stress

مستخلص: The author reflects on strain that interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary research puts on scientific communication. She relates her experience of studying science and conducting research, argues that it is easier to work with individuals within one's discipline, and discusses a report within the issue by Deana D. Pennington and colleagues on the disorienting effects of collaboration with scientists from different fields.

المؤلفون: STAFFORD, SUSAN G.

المصدر: BioScience; Dec2012, Vol. 62 Issue 12, p1007-1007, 2/3p

مصطلحات موضوعية: TECHNOLOGICAL innovations, SCIENCE & state, BIOLOGICAL research, FEDERAL aid to biology, COOPERATIVE research

الشركة/الكيان: AMERICAN Institute of Biological Sciences

مستخلص: The president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) explores the effects of technological, social, and political change on the sciences. He notes AIBS activities in support of U.S. government funding and legislation for biological research and innovation. He argues that scientists must adapt and embrace technological changes to allow for greater advances and collaboration.