2009 LTER All Scientists Meeting - Sociology

Management of Residential Natural Resources by Recent Rural In-migrants

Craig Harris — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:59:07 +0000

Poster Number:

362

Presenter/Primary Author:

Craig Harris

Co-Authors:

Leighanna Beach

Population growth and urban sprawl are two issues that have long concerned environmentalists. Another, more modern phenomenon is that of urban to rural migration, wherein residents of urban or suburban areas buy property in areas more rural, less developed. This study is concerned with the land use decisions made by these new rural residents. The study is centered in Southwest Michigan, Barry Township within Barry County. The area is one of shifting land use patterns and increasing residential development.

Student Poster:

Yes

Socio-ecological research in northeastern Puerto Rico (LUQ)

Jess Zimmerman — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:20:40 +0000

Poster Number:

339

Presenter/Primary Author:

Jess Zimmerman

Co-Authors:

Tischa Munoz-Erickson

Co-Authors:

Ariel E. Lugo

Co-Authors:

Frederick N. Scatena

Co-Authors:

Charles A.S. Hall

Co-Authors:

Alonso Ramirez

The dominant theme of socio-ecological research in the Luquillo LTER Research Program is the influence of land use change on local climate change, secondary forest dynamics, watershed and stream processes, and ecosystem services. Much of our research is being developed in the context of the steep urban to wildlands gradient from the Rio Piedras watershed (RPW) in the center of San Juan metropolitan area(SJMA) to the Luquillo Experimental Forest (LEF) some 25 km away.

VOSS: Delegating Organizational Work to Virtual Organization Technologies

R. Stuart Geiger — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:06:00 +0000

Poster Number:

337

Presenter/Primary Author:

R. Stuart Geiger

Co-Authors:

David Ribes

Co-Authors:

Steve Jackson

Co-Authors:

Matt Burton

Co-Authors:

Tom Finholt

This project is currently undertaking a comparative study of the formation and maintenance of Virtual Organizations (VOs) in two leading collaborative science networks: the Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) and the Open Science Grid (OSG). Both LTER and OSG are mature enterprises for supporting multidisciplinary scientific research; however, they differ in the nature of their VO tool use.

ULTRA-Ex: Connecting the social and ecological sciences with planners, managers, and the public: Building a broad foundation for the Chicago Region ULTRA

David Wise — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:58:54 +0000

Poster Number:

285

Presenter/Primary Author:

David Wise

Co-Authors:

Lynne M Westphal

Co-Authors:

Liam Heneghan

Co-Authors:

Bryan C Pijanowski

Co-Authors:

Nancy C Tuchman

Co-Authors:

Aaron N Durnbaugh

Co-Authors:

Paul H Gobster

Co-Authors:

Jennifer L Hirsch

Co-Authors:

Eric V Lonsdorf

Co-Authors:

Emily S Minor

Co-Authors:

Susan I Stewart

Co-Authors:

Moira L Zellner

The Chicago Region ULTRA-Ex will address a question fundamental to understanding the dynamic interactions between biodiversity conservation, ecosystem processes, and human well being in urban landscapes: In a complex urban/metropolitan system, what are the synergies and tradeoffs between conserving biodiversity and providing ecosystem services to people? The project focuses on the Green Infrastructure Vision of the Chicago Wilderness alliance, a conservation consortium of over 240 organizations.

Metrology for aquatic urban systems: comparison of the French and US approach

Morgan Grove — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:43:47 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

Working Group Report: Metrology for aquatic urban systems: comparison of the French and US approach

Organizer:

Morgan Grove

Co-organizer(s):

Nancy Grimm

Co-organizer(s):

Peter Groffman

Co-organizer(s):

Larry Band

Co-organizer(s):

Stan Gregory

Co-organizer(s):

Steward Pickett

Co-organizer(s):

Daniel Childers

Co-organizer(s):

Marie-Noelle PONS

During the LTER-ZA meeting in Baltimore in October 2008, it appeared that US and French research teams involved in the study of urban and periurban aquatic systems were not measuring the same parameters in their field studies. Any cooperation between our research teams will be difficult as long as methods and monitoring approaches are different or at least their differences are well understood on both sides.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 15

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 16

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 1

Room:

Longs Peak Boulder Field

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>

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

LTER - National Biological Information Infrastructure

Inigo San Gil — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:37:55 +0000

Poster Number:

Presenter/Primary Author:

Inigo San Gil

Co-Authors:

William. K. Michener

Co-Authors:

Mark Servilla

Co-Authors:

James Brunt

Co-Authors:

Mike Frame

Co-Authors:

Vivian Hutchison

The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) entered in 2004 in a five year cooperative agreement with LTER. The NBII-LTER cooperative agreement is the result of efforts championed by W. Michener dating back to 2000. The overarching goal is the interoperability of both networks: Sharing the wealth on information on ecological and biological resources, and offer those to educators,, scientists, lawmakers and the public in general.

The no-dead ends LTER information website

Marshall White — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:31:22 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

no-dead-endsReport1.pdf.pdf

Organizer:

Inigo San Gil

Co-organizer(s):

Marshall White

Video:

First Hour:
Motivation - An integral vision for information management and information delivery

Second Hour:

Lively demo of the implementation -- four way interactions with the workgroup attendants.

This workshop has three goals:

1) Inform interested participants about a new way to organize the LTER site information. We offer the public a view of the information that has no dead-ends, that is, all the content is related, and each website view offers related contextual content, including data, personnel, metadata, projects, and the like.

2) Receive feedback

3) Recruit adopters and developers

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 15

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 5

Room:

Reusch Auditorium Hobbs

Official Participants

LTER Participants:

Inigo San Gil

Marshall White

Hap Garritt

Eda Melendez-Colom

Sarah Barbrow

James Laundre

Hope Humphries

Dan Bahauddin

David Blankman

Mike Rugge

Additional Participants:

Kim Yamgsum (KLTER)

Clarisse Hart (HFR)

Derik Barseghian (NCEAS)

Kyle Kwaiser (UMBS)

David Huber (CAP)