Green Light/ Letter of Intent
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 11:47:55 -0500 (EST)
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From: Daniel Janzen <djanzen@sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: green light
It would appear that the content of the IRC/NSF Letter of Intent falls
within the subject matter of what they had in mind. Hmm. Go. Dan and
Winnie and Espinita and Pavo Lazarus
>From: scollins@nsf.gov
>Date: Fri, 27 Nov 98 16:42:27 EST
>To: Daniel Janzen <djanzen@sas.upenn.edu>
>Subject: Re: sorry that it was not clear
>
>Go for it. We look forward to receiving your IRC proposal.
>
>Scott
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>Subject: sorry that it was not clear
>Author: Daniel Janzen <djanzen@sas.upenn.edu> at NOTE
>Date: 11/27/98 4:32 PM
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>27 Nov 1998
>Philadelphia
>Scott Collins
>
>Hi there, and my apologies for not being clear. This is NOT datamining
>from the extant (20 year) database (that would only occur in some specific
>retroactive questions that are backward extensions from the to-be-gathered
>5 year new data run (and I should add, new and improved structures for the
>100+ fields in the new records). The new data run will be explicitly
>structured to address the two core null hypotheses. The old (and
>continuing on another track for ALL lep larvae) database is for INVENTORY
>and association of unknown caterpillars with adults. The 500 species to be
>used in the IRC project are those that are already inventoried enough so
>that we can now ask ecological big questions about them.
>
>When trying to get this all into 500 words (actually, it is 535 words), a
>lot gets left out that can lead to unclarity as you focused on. That will
>of course be very explicit in the IRC proposal itself (provided that you
>all give me the green light to go ahead and write one - fingers crossed).
>
>Go.
>
>Dan and Winnie and Espinita and Pavo Lazarus
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>>>From: scollins@nsf.gov
>>Date: Fri, 27 Nov 98 14:39:24 EST
>>To: Daniel Janzen <djanzen@sas.upenn.edu>
>>Subject: Re: letter of intent, NSF Integrated Research Challenge gra
>>
>>Dr. Janzen:
>>
>>Thank you for your letter of intent. For my own sake, could you please
>>clarify if this IRC project is primarily data mining on the extensive
>>data base, or are there associated empirical and experimental studies
>>to be included explicitly in this project? (e.g., integrated by design
>>from the outset). I am just curious. I will forward your letter of
>>intent to the program directors involved in the competition.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Scott Collins
>>
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>>Subject: letter of intent, NSF Integrated Research Challenge grants,
>>Author: Daniel Janzen <djanzen@sas.upenn.edu> at NOTE
>>Date: 11/27/98 2:28 PM
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>><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>27 November 1998
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>>Philadelphia
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>>to: ircebrev@nsf.gov
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>>Title: The dynamics of the caterpillar, food plant and parasitoid
>>eco-scape spread over three complex tropical ecosystems.
>>
>>
>>1) QUESTION: How does the eco-scape of a select set of 500 species of
>>caterpillars in five moth families (Saturniidae, Sphingidae, Noctuidae,
>>Notodontidae, Geometridae) and five butterfly families (Hesperiidae,
>>Nymphalidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Riodinidae), and their adults,
>>food plants and parasitoids (eight families of Diptera and
>>Hymenoptera), morph among seasons, years and successional stages over
>>the 88,000 ha of various-aged tropical dry forest, cloud forest, and
>>rain forest, and intergrades, in the Area de Conservacion Guanacaste
>>(ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica?
>>
>>
>>2) INTEGRATED NATURE: This is web-based iterative assembly and
>>disassembly of 500,000+ event-based modular caterpillar records across
>>the eco-scapes of 11 primary variables. Off-site links will compare
>>and integrate methods and analysis with other caterpillar ecological
>>studies and global parasitoid systematics studies. Project planning
>>and data will integrate international, national and local
>>paraprofessional scientific effort with place-based biodiversity
>>development.
>>
>>
>>3) KEY ELEMENTS: The data platform will contain 500,000+ individual
>>event-based records. A record is one individual caterpillar with its
>>food plant, developmental history, and parasitoids (100+ fields). These
>>records will be gathered and computerized year-around by place-based
>>teams of local Costa Rican paraecologists through a hypothesis-driven
>>protocol for caterpillar search and subsequent laboratory rearing of
>>subsamples for parasitoids.
>>
>>
>>The records will be pooled, sifted and stratified to iteratively test
>>two core null hypotheses across the successional stages, scaled
>>landscapes of the ACG, seasons, years, plant taxa, caterpillar
>>taxa<bold>, </bold>caterpillar instar, 'caterpillar natural history
>>life forms', 'caterpillar guild per food plant species', parasitoid
>>taxa, and 'parasitoid guild per caterpillar species'.
>>
>>
>>Two core NULL hypotheses:
>>
>>
>>1) These species of caterpillars have virtually no interspecific
>>impact on each other through direct competition for food plants.
>>
>>
>>2) These species of parasitoids have virtually no interspecific impact
>>on each other through direct competition for caterpillars.
>>
>>
>>Thousands of tests of these two null hypotheses (and their obvious
>>subhypotheses) will generate landscape-level eco-scapes of rejection
>>frequencies. This 5-year study will also retroactively examine select
>>questions over 25 years by pooling with the current event-based ACG
>>caterpillar database (http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu, userword <<guest>
>>and password <<NSFreview>).
>>
>>
>>We will create five 5-person multidisciplinary teams of local career
>>paraecologists at three ecosystems and two intergrades. The 500
>>species will be chosen from the 7,000+ ACG species on the basis of
>>being taxonomically clean, field-identifiable, and field-censusable.
>>
>>
>>Parasitoid taxonomists (e.g., Wood, Woodley, Zumbado, Sharkey,
>>Whitfield, Shaw, Zitani, Gauld, Schauff) and caterpillar specialists
>>from around the world (e.g., Dyer, Aiello, Wagner, Basset, Novotny,
>>Reysenbach) will participate in initial and 3rd-year planning/analysis
>>on-site workshops and have real-time full access to the data, to
>>synergize the project and to reinforce its outlinks to their
>>caterpillar projects.
>>
>>
>>Other researchers will "attach" to this project to take advantage of
>>this researcher-friendly array of caterpillars, food plants and
>>parasitoids.
>>
>>
>>4) WHO/WHERE:
>>
>>
>>PI: Daniel Janzen, University of Pennsylvania and Technical Advisor to
>>the ACG.
>>
>>
>>Subcontract institutions: ACG and INBio.
>>
>>
>>Facilities: ACG: 88,000 hectares, seven biological stations and rearing
>>barns, web site, clean taxonomic infrastructure
>>
>>
>>Budget: estimated $3 million.
>>
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