2009 LTER All Scientists Meeting - Information exchange

Metrics for Data Package Quality

George Garcia — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:37:26 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

Metrics for Data Package Quality Working Group Report

Organizer:

Margaret O'Brien

This is an Ad-hoc meeting arranged at the All Scientist meeting.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 16

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Ad-Hoc 7

Room:

East Side Rainbow C

Official Participants

LTER Participants:

James Brunt

Duane Costa

Mark Servilla

Additional Participants:

Ben Leinfelder - leinfelder@nceas.ucsb.edu

Jing Tao - tao@nceas.ucsb.edu

Matthew Jones - jones@nceas.ucsb.edu

Mark Schildhauer - schild@nceas.ucsb.edu

Margaret O'Brien - mob@msi.ucsb.edu

Dan Bahauddin - danbaha@umn.edu

Emery Boose - boose@fas.harvard.edu

Carbon intercomparison

George Garcia — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:34:54 +0000

Organizer:

Carlos A. Sierra

This is an Ad-hoc meeting arranged at the All Scientist meeting.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 16

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Ad-Hoc 6

Room:

Alpen Great Room

Luquillo LTER

George Garcia — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:33:18 +0000

Organizer:

Nicholas Brokaw

This is an Ad-hoc meeting arranged at the All Scientist meeting.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 16

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Ad-Hoc 4

Room:

Alpen Great Room

Ocean Acidification effects on coastal Ecosystems.

George Garcia — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:22:40 +0000

Organizer:

Mark Ohman

Tthis is an Ad-hoc meeting arranged at the All Scientist Meeting.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 16

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Ad-Hoc 2

Socioecological research in Nonurban sites

George Garcia — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:01:57 +0000

Organizer:

LINDSAY CRAY

Co-organizer(s):

Shan Ma

This is an Ad-hoc meeting arranged at the All Scientist Meeting.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 15

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Ad-Hoc 1

Room:

East Side Rainbow B

Integrating Science, Society, and Education for Sustainability

Nancy Grimm — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:07:31 +0000

Organizer:

Nancy Grimm

Co-organizer(s):

Jeannine Cavender-Bares

Co-organizer(s):

Ted Gragson

Co-organizer(s):

Scott Collins

Co-organizer(s):

Morgan Grove

Co-organizer(s):

Charles Redman

Co-organizer(s):

Christopher Boone

The Integrative Science for Society and Environment (ISSE) initiative and its working model for the interaction of ecosystems and social systems represent the product of tremendous investment by the LTER network and its scientists as part of the 20-year planning process. Researchers in the emerging field of sustainability science promote similar frameworks that fundamentally integrate economy, ecology, and equity.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 2

Room:

Wind River B

Working Group Materials

Related materiels:

Clark_sustainability_2007.pdf

ISSE_brochure.pdf

Using EcoTrends to synthesize animal data from the LTER Network

Michael Willig — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:21:09 +0000

Organizer:

Michael Willig

Co-organizer(s):

Paul Stapp

Co-organizer(s):

Robert Waide

A working group funded by the LNO examined the animal data in the EcoTrends database with the following objectives:
• To provide strategic insight into the products that might arise from use of extant animal-based data in the EcoTrends archive;
• To identify lacunae in data that compromise the development of new insights or understanding;
• To identify shortcomings in metadata that compromise development of new insights or understanding;

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 2

Room:

Longs Peak Keyhole

Working Group Materials

Related materiels:

Ecotrends - Animal Populations Meeting Agenda - Willig.doc

EcoTrends animal report 5-11-09.doc

SPAN – A Network Providing Sensor-to-Database End-to-End Services

Sridhar Gullapalli — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:28:41 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

SPAN: A network providing Sensor-to-Database End-to-End Services Final Report

Organizer:

Terry Benzel

Co-organizer(s):

Sridhar Gullapalli

In recent years, advances in sensor network technology have shown great promise to revolutionize environmental data collection. Still, these systems have remained the purview of the engineers and computer scientists who design them rather than the useful tools for the field scientists who could utilize them. Today, while there are many data logging options for basic data collection in the field, scientists are still usually required to travel to the sites to retrieve their data, and manually import it into spreadsheets.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 3

Room:

Longs Peak Boulder Field

Working Group Materials

Pathways to Environmental Literacy: The Intersection of Science, Equity, Place, and Citizenship

Shandy Hauk — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:43:57 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

ReportASM2009PathwaysWorkingGroup.pdf.pdf

Organizer:

Shandy Hauk

Co-organizer(s):

Mark Davis

Co-organizer(s):

Sylvia Parker

Co-organizer(s):

John Moore

This Working Group session is offered by the newly NSF-funded LTER Math-Science-Partnership (MSP) Pathways to Environmental Literacy project. Presentations by panelists at this session address topics at the intersection of science teaching and learning and the myriad issues of citizenship, equity, diversity, and place. The focus areas of the Pathways project are: Biodiversity, the Water Cycle, and the Carbon Cycle.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 5

Room:

Longs Peak Diamond West

Stable Isotopes: new technologies, novel elements and approaches

Stephen Macko — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:47:06 +0000

Organizer:

Stephen Macko

Co-organizer(s):

Nathaniel Ostrom

Co-organizer(s):

Peggy Ostrom

Co-organizer(s):

Iris Anderson

This would be an updated stable isotope working group that we ran in 2006. It was done at the last LTER to a room that overflowed, and some were not able to come in the room.

Stable isotope analyses remain proven technologies for characterizing long term change within ecosystems. This workshop/ information exchange/brainstorming group will focus on new technologies of continuous monitoring, or continuous flow analyses, as well as new elements that could be or are being employed for assessment of processes and sources within LTER ecosystems.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 1

Room:

Wind River B