Beyond ecosystem modeling: a roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure for ecological data‐model integration

In an era of rapid global change, our ability to understand and predict Earth's natural systems is lagging behind our ability to monitor and measure changes in the biosphere. Bottlenecks to informing models with observations have reduced our capacity to fully exploit the growing volume and variety of available data. Here, we take a critical look at the information infrastructure that connects ecosystem modeling and measurement efforts, and propose a roadmap to community cyberinfrastructure development that can reduce the divisions between empirical research and modeling and accelerate the pace of discovery. A new era of data‐model integration requires investment in accessible, scalable, transparent tools that integrate the expertise of the whole community, including both modelers and empiricists. This roadmap focuses on five key opportunities for community tools: the underlying foundationsof community cyberinfrastructure; data ingest; calibration of models to data; model‐data benchmarking; and data assimilation and ecological forecasting. This community‐driven approach is key to meeting the pressing needs of science and society in the 21st century

At home in the world? Bharata Natyam as transnational interpreter.

This article examines dancers' practice, in Bharata Natyam, of providing a verbal translation of dance pieces before performing them. It critiques the demand for such discursive interpretation through a discussion of textual orientalism. This is the only article in print to raise such a discussion. It proceeds to consider choreographic strategies as alternative modes of translation. This essay, therefore, is one of the few in the Bharata Natyam field that looks at particular, contemporary works of choreography in detail and as a method of discussing the politics of representation within the form