Santa Barbara, CA2 days ago
Coordinates travel logistics and financial support for Working Group participants attending onsite and offsite meetings, including customizing and distributing travel materials, processing participant stipends, preparing and submitting travel expense reports, and maintaining frequent communication with participants, their home institutions, and administrative staff. Different from the scientific tradition of solitary lab or fieldwork, NCEAS fosters collaborative synthesis research - assembling interdisciplinary teams to distill existing data, ideas, theories, or methods drawn from many sources, across multiple fields of inquiry, to accelerate the generation of new scientific knowledge at a broad scale.