Planning great broader impacts projects

As Ecology expands into a macro-scale science, scientists are relying on research networks, Observatories, Citizen Science, and "big-data" mining, and working in large collaborative teams to conduct research. New capabilities are needed to work in diverse teams across disciplinary and international boundaries, and use advanced sensing and monitoring, communication, and information technologies to work across many scales of time and space. Student and faculty training needs to transform to include new delivery modalities such as collaboratories, strategic training (statistical, analytical, computational methods), and professional skills development (leadership, large project management, systems analysis).