2009 LTER All Scientists Meeting - Anthropology

Cross-Site Working Group on Coupled Human-Natural Systems

Craig Harris — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:38:27 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

Cross-Site Working Group on Coupled Human-Natural Systems Final Report

Organizer:

William Freudenburg

Co-organizer(s):

Craig Harris

This session is intended both for social and biophysical scientists who want to help develop a proposal for the kind of “multi-site, highly collaborative and integrated research initiative” envisioned by the LTER planning group. The focus will be on what the LTER planning process calls the “centerpiece” of the group's conceptual framework, as well as one of “Grand Challenges” to be addressed at the network level – “the dynamics of coupled human-natural ecosystems.”

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 5

Room:

Reusch Auditorium Sweet

Official Participants

Additional Participants:

"Craig Harris" <Craig.Harris@SSC.MSU.EDU>, Victor Thompson <thompson.2042@osu.edu>, John Turck <jaturck@#uga.edu>, Hannah Gosnell <gosnellh@geo.oregonstate.edu>, Sharon Hall <sharonjhall@asu.edu>, Abigail York <abigail.york@asu.edu>, Jim Gosz <jgosz@uidaho.edu>, "Wm. R. Freudenburg" <freudenburg@es.ucsb.edu>

Zoning and Land Use Change: Dynamic Processes in Southern Florida

Jeff Onsted — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:56:13 +0000

Poster Number:

111

Presenter/Primary Author:

Jeff Onsted

Co-Authors:

Laura Ogden

Co-Authors:

Rinku Roy Chowdhury

The conversion of agricultural and rural lands for development purposes reflects one of the greatest threats to key ecosystem services in the United States. This poster addresses land use change dynamics in southern Florida, linking them to local governance-zoning institutions. Study of land use and zoning patterns informs broader questions of relevance to the LTER, including: “What is the pattern of land and water use change in urban and working systems: what are the temporal and spatial patterns of human activity and ecosystem dynamics in LTER regions?

Bridging the Tamiami Trail: Exploring the Socio-Ecological Dimensions of Everglades Restoration in the Florida Coastal Everglades

Rebecca Garvoille — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:22:37 +0000

Poster Number:

104

Presenter/Primary Author:

Rebecca Garvoille

A major goal of the Florida Coastal Everglades LTER research program is to investigate how changes in freshwater flow related to Everglades ecosystem restoration will impact ecosystem processes, specifically in the Shark River Slough/Gulf of Mexico and the Taylor Slough/Florida Bay ecotones of Everglades National Park. This research is as much a question about natural processes as it is social processes.

Student Poster:

Yes

How Is Urbanization Making America Socially and Ecologically Homogeneous?

Kelli Larson — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:26:07 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

LTER-ASM2009_WorkingGrpReport_Larsonetal.pdf.pdf

Organizer:

Kelli Larson

Co-organizer(s):

Laura Ogden

Co-organizer(s):

Morgan Grove

Co-organizer(s):

Rinku Roy Chowdhury

Co-organizer(s):

Colin Polsky

Land uses and management practices in residential parcels (e.g., aesthetic/recreational/economic uses, land-cover choices, irrigation and chemical applications) impact and are impacted by social (e.g., stratification and status, environmental perceptions, zoning) and ecological (e.g., carbon sequestration, nutrient cycling, water demand and quality) processes.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 6

Session(s):

Working Group Session 7

Room:

Longs Peak Boulder Field

Working Group Materials

Recent Advances and Opportunities for Urban Long Term Ecological Research: Theory, Data, and Methods

Morgan Grove — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:57:01 +0000

Organizer:

Morgan Grove

Co-organizer(s):

Colin Polsky

Co-organizer(s):

Laura Ogden

Co-organizer(s):

Rinku Roy Chowdhury

Co-organizer(s):

Ted Gragson

Co-organizer(s):

Kelli Larson

Co-organizer(s):

Christopher Boone

The prospect for long term, interdisciplinary research continues to grow since the "regionalizing" of the Coweeta and North Temperate Lakes LTER sites and the initiation of the two urban LTER sites: Baltimore and Central-Arizona-Phoenix. Additional sites have recruited social scientists and expanded both the questions asked and the geographic extent of their interests. Thus, there is growing opportunities for collaboration among sites that might not identify themselves as "urban," in conjunction with the existing regional and urban sites.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 4

Room:

Longs Peak Diamond West

“Time, Space & Causality of Trans-Atlantic Mountain Landscapes”: how to compare interdisciplinary sustainable landscapes and research programs in Southern Appalachia and North-facing Western Pyrenees (France)

Anne Sourdril — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:30:43 +0000

Organizer:

Anne Sourdril

Most aspects of the structure and function of Earth’s ecosystems can no longer be understood without accounting for the strong, and often dominant influence of humanity across space and time. Human land-use practices in particular are fundamental determinants of local, regional, and global ecological processes. The consequences of such practices are evident across diverse scales influencing the sustainability of landscapes and ultimately the quality of human life.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 15

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 16

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 4

Room:

East Side Rainbow Fireside

Parcel-Based Geovisualization of Southern Appalachia

Jessica L. Watkins — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:59:12 +0000

Poster Number:

Presenter/Primary Author:

Jessica L. Watkins

Co-Authors:

John F. Chamblee

Co-Authors:

Carolyn A. Dehring

Parcel-level data provide fine grained information concerning the role of human activity in changing the quantity and quality of ecosystem services. Coweeta’s synoptic sampling program seeks to understand anthropogenic sources of ecosystem change by focusing on a range of distinct landscapes. Comparative views of these landscapes reveal correlations between changes in the flowpaths, habitats, and human communities.

Student Poster:

Yes

Thinking about the land. Understand perceptions of exurban development in the Swannanoa Valley through a PhotoVoice project (Buncombe County, North Carolina)

Anne Sourdril — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:07:39 +0000

Poster Number:

Presenter/Primary Author:

Anne Sourdril

Co-Authors:

John F. Chamblee

Social scientists, policymakers, and the public need to understand how inhabitants of exurbanized areas think about and perceive their land. This study used a combination of the PhotoVoice and participatory GIS method to capture these perceptions. Our results show that while exurban development is commonly discussed as a phenomenon related to “sprawl”, people do not actually perceive development as systemic, but instead focus on development patches that are located in restricted locations.

Natural and Human Impacts on Back-barrier Islands of Georgia

John A. Turck — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:50:18 +0000

Poster Number:

Presenter/Primary Author:

John A. Turck

Co-Authors:

Victor D. Thompson

Both natural processes (e.g., erosion, vegetative succession) and human processes (e.g., prehistoric shell deposition, modern clearing) have impacted the structure of back-barrier islands on the coast of Georgia. Both types of processes have occurred continually throughout the past and present. Present-day-back-barrier islands cannot be understood without a thorough knowledge of their landscape history. For a full understanding of coastal ecosystems, they need to be viewed as human ecosystems that are the result of both natural and human processes.

Student Poster:

Yes