2009 LTER All Scientists Meeting - Brain storming

Private meeting ARC Snow/Shrub group

George Garcia — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:29:32 +0000

Organizer:

Jennie DeMarco

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 3

Room:

East Side Rainbow C

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>

Broadening Undergraduate Participation in Integrative LTER Research

Teresa Mourad — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:00:06 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

WG Report Broadening Undergrad Participation in Integrative LTER Research

Organizer:

Teresa Mourad

Co-organizer(s):

Nancy Grimm

The LTER Decadal Plan outlined a number of important and visionary Education goals and activities towards building the intellectual capacity for integrative research which emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration and synthesis.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 15

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 6

Room:

Reusch Auditorium Billhiemer

Dominant plant species loss: a synthesis of community and ecosystem consequences

Melinda Smith — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:07:00 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

Final Report - Dominant plant species loss: a synthesis of community and ecosystem consequences

Organizer:

Melinda Smith

Co-organizer(s):

Seth Munson

Dominant plant species with high abundance and biomass are major contributors to nutrient and energy pools in many ecosystems. Therefore, the loss of dominant plant species can result in a reduction of ecosystem function, particularly if the remaining species in the community do not have similar functional roles. Many efforts have been made to document the effect of dominant species loss. These include observational data from communities where the dominant species has declined, comparative studies of mono- vs.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 15

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 4

Room:

Longs Peak Chasm Lake

Building an LTER Taxonomic Database to Support Synthetic Research

Christine Laney — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:53:14 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

Final Report

Organizer:

Christine Laney

Co-organizer(s):

Ken Ramsey

We propose that an LTER-wide taxonomic database would minimize much of the work of resolving taxonomic differences for future cross-site, network level research projects. The EcoTrends project has built a database to standardize site codes and nomenclature with USDA PLANTS database symbols* and/or the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) taxonomic serial numbers across all participating sites (totaling >1800 plant and animal species at 14 sites). We would like your help to improve, expand, and share it.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 15

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 6

Room:

East Side Deer Ridge Fireside

Working Group Materials

Related materiels:

Principles for a names-based cyberinfrastructure to serve all of biology - Patterson, EOL

EML Taxonomic Coverage Module - O'Brien, SBC

Impetus for forming a taxonomic working group - Laney, JRN, EcoTrends

MCR LTER Taxonomy DB - Gastil-Buhl, MCR

GCE LTER Taxonomic Database - Sheldon, GCE

Official Participants

LTER Participants:

Wade Sheldon

M Gastil-Buhl

Margaret O'Brien

Corinna Gries

John Porter

Suzanne Remillard

Kyle Wickings

John Chamblee

Mason Kortz

Donald Henshaw

Additional Participants:

Lee Zeman

David Patterson

Culturally relevant ecology, learning progressions and environmental literacy

John Moore — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:44:45 +0000

Organizer:

John Moore

Co-organizer(s):

Charles Anderson

Co-organizer(s):

Alan Berkowitz

Co-organizer(s):

Allison Whitmer

Co-organizer(s):

Kimberly Melville-Smith

The decadal plan for the LTER emphasized the need to develop an environmental science literacy framework around learning progressions within core science and mathematics concepts complemented with citizenship. In response to this charge we developed a cross-site collaboration funded by the NSF Mathematics and Science Partnership program to (a) engage teachers around four LTER sites (BES, KBS, SBC, and SGS) in long-term professional development; (b) develop frameworks and assessments for learning progressions leading to environmental science literacy for carbon cycli

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 6

Room:

Reusch Auditorium Sweet

Integrating spatial and temporal data across the LTER network

Christine Laney — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:43:31 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

Final report from the working group

Organizer:

Christine Laney

Co-organizer(s):

Jin Yao

Over the past few years, several LTER-wide projects have created web services to easily find, access and compare long-term ecological datasets (e.g., EcoTrends*) and spatial datasets (e.g., LTER Spatial Data Workbench/CREATE**) across the LTER network; however, temporal and spatial datasets are often stored separately and accessed from different websites. Integrating long-term data and map layers from across the LTER network in a single website could be the next step in improving access to LTER’s rich legacy of both temporal and spatial data.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 15

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 3

Room:

Longs Peak Chasm Lake

Working Group Materials

Related materiels:

Integrating spatial and temporal data: Yao, JRN, EcoTrends

Agenda

Intro to EcoTrends; integrating existing long-term datasets and their spatial context - Laney, JRN, EcoTrends

EcoTrends Interface: Valentine, AND, GIS committee

Remote Sensing Resources and Collaborations - Vande Castle, LNO

Official Participants

LTER Participants:

Theresa Valentine

Karen Baker

Tsunehiro Watanabe

Eddie Molina

Cecilia Tomasel

Suzanne Sippel

Duane Costa

Masahiro Nakaoka

David Balsiger

Sue Welch

Douglas Moore

Adrian Burd

Jamie Hollingsworth

Akiko Ogawa

Hanna Lee

John Vande Castle

Additional Participants:

David Hwise - dhwise@uic.edu

Lee Zeman - zemanl@evergreen.edu

Products

Files:

Final report from working group

Agriculture, forestry and emissions trading: is there a role for the LTER network?

Neville Millar — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:20:01 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

Agriculture, Forestry and Emissions Trading: Is there a role for the LTER Network

Organizer:

Neville Millar

Co-organizer(s):

Phil Robertson

The major contribution of land-based activities to climate change and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) is widely recognized by the scientific community. The question of how and whether to include the agriculture and forestry sectors in GHG emission reduction projects suitable for carbon emissions trading in ‘cap–and–trade’ programs however, remains controversial.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 15

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 4

Room:

Reusch Auditorium Sweet

Working Group Materials

Related materiels:

LTER ASM workshop presentation upload 1.ppt

Official Participants

LTER Participants:

Stacey VanderWulp

Iurii Shcherbak

Kevin Kahmark

Leilei Ruan

Ilya Gelfand

Phil Robertson

John Yarie

David Valentine

Eeva Furman

DeAndra Beck

minda berbeco

Dur E Shahwar Salam

Jonathan O'Brien

Stephen Hamilton

Micaleila Desotelle

Laura Schneider

Craig Harris

Steve Raciti

Additional Participants:

Sarah Hicks - garlicscape@gmail.com

Kate Anderson - kganderson@wisc.edu

Erika Pinto Quinteo- erikapq50@hotmail.com

Hongyan Luo - hluo@neoninc.org

Hannah Gusnell - gusnellh@geo.oregonstate.edu

Jan Dick - jand@ceh.ac.uk

Lisa Crone - lkcrone@fs.fed.us

Janet Hedtcke - jlrieste@wisc.edu

Using social network sites and visualizations to lower the barriers to cross-site and socio-ecological research in urban systems

Bethany Cutts — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:19:51 +0000

Organizer:

Bethany Cutts

Co-organizer(s):

Elizabeth Cook

Co-organizer(s):

Rebecca Hale

Co-organizer(s):

Michele Romolini

Co-organizer(s):

Kirsten Schwarz

We propose using this workshop as a follow up session to the Identifying the benefits and barriers to graduate student cross-site socio-ecological research in urban systems GSS workshop. We will focus on developing features for a networking tool that links graduate students doing socio-ecological research in urban systems across the LTER network. During this meeting, we will brainstorm (and possibly test or create) effective networking tool(s) to facilitate students’ cross LTER collaborations and research.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 16

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 5

Room:

Reusch Auditorium Dodge

Working Group Materials

Reconstructing ecosystem structure and function: merging paleoecology and ecosystem ecology

Kendra McLauchlan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:04:38 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

Paleoecosystem Ecology Working Group

Organizer:

Kendra McLauchlan

Both slow and fast variables interact to produce ecosystem change observable in a human lifetime. Unfortunately, ecosystem processes that operate over hundreds to millions of years are difficult to document, but are likely essential for understanding future ecosystem changes. Ecologists have traditionally studied these long-term ecosystem variations using the chronosequence approach, which adopts a “space-for-time” substitution.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 15

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 2

Room:

Reusch Auditorium Hobbs