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OOS-27: Emerging ecoinformatic tools and accomplishments for synthetic ecological
research across scales
Wednesday,
August 10, 8 AM - 11:30 AM, Meeting Rooms 510b and 510d, Level 5, Palais
des congrès de Montréal
Organizers:
Jennifer
Dunne (jdunne@santafe.edu), Neo
Martinez, Tamara Romanuk
Description:
The
study, conservation, and management of complex ecosystems across multiple scales
demand the integration and analysis of large amounts of profoundly different
types of ecological information. Accessing and integrating such information is
particularly difficult because it can come in radically different formats and
from vastly different sources. “Ecoinformatics” refers to new information
technologies for accessing, organizing, manipulating, and presenting
heterogeneous ecological information for biocomplexity research. Ecologists,
often in interdisciplinary collaborations with computer scientists, are
designing and implementing a wide range of these technologies, which are
increasingly used to study ecosystems across many scales. This session will
showcase emerging information technologies and associated scientific
accomplishments in the context of synthetic ecological research. As demonstrated
in the talks for a variety of different approaches, questions, and habitats,
ecoinformatic tools are being used to conduct novel ecological research across
scales, research that would have been more laborious or impossible using
traditional research methods.
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