Abstract
The Spring 2001 report of National Science Foundation Workshop on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Informatics (BDEI) suggested that the next-generation CS/IT applications needed to understand complex, ecosystem-scale processes would require significant, ground-breaking CS/IT research. Thus, in the summer of 2001, the NSF granted $1.25 million in grants to 15 researcher groups to initiate planning projects and research initiation efforts in BDEI. This panel reported back to the VLDB on the nature of issues in this domain. Using one or more concrete examples of BDEI funded research, panelists presented their views of where the work lies with respect to database issues (for example, conceptual modeling, spatial and temporal databases, metadata, data mining, and data integration). The panelists also presented their views on whether the work constitutes (1) work in the domain by ecologists, (2) applying existing DBMS technology, (3) applying existing DBMS technology to create new technology, or (4) original DBMS (or other CS) research.
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