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Community Page NCEAS: Promoting Creative Collaborations O. J. Reichman substantial portion of research dispersed geographically, ecology occurs in places where encompasses a disparate range of Ascholars congregate—in disciplines at scales from molecules campus laboratories, in libraries, or to the globe, making the exchange in large specialized facilities, such as of ideas and information even more oceanographic ships, astronomical diffi cult. observatories, or accelerators. Under Recognizing the benefi ts of any of these circumstances, researchers interaction and collaboration, can interact easily, exchanging ideas the ecological community began and information. considering a synthesis center where Ecological research, especially the researchers from many fi elds could large component occurring in the meet to address important ecological fi eld, takes place in disparate locations questions. Several organizations held all over the world—in the air, on the discussions about the nature of such surface, and below the oceans, lakes, a center, which culminated in two and crust of the planet. Although there workshops hosted by the National are many biological fi eld stations where Science Foundation (NSF) in the early the University of California, Santa scientists and students gather, much of 1990s, to set the scope. In 1994, NSF Barbara, the award for the National the research in ecology takes place in conducted an open competition for a Center for Ecological Analysis and isolation. In ad