Pioneering Center Ponders Future as NSF Pulls Out

摘要

Part think tank, part conference and computing facility, the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) in Santa Barbara, California, tends to elicit superlatives about its work over the past 15 years. "It's the most successful undertaking in ecology ever," says marine ecologist Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. The center has fostered collaborations that have gathered rich data sets, yielding some of the most widely cited work in the field.