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Research Agenda for NPN: Science Components, Communication, and Impact

This research agenda aims to integrate a strong scientific research component into the NPN program to guide procedures, assure quality, and inform decision-making. The agenda focuses on topics such as trends and variability, social and economic impacts, ecological function and structure, and the effects of climate change and land use. It also highlights the importance of promoting collaboration and communication among researchers and engaging the general public and decision-makers.

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Research Agenda for NPN: Science Components, Communication, and Impact

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  1. “Science” synthesis breakout 8/25/05 Research agenda as part of or aligned with NPN Framing issues and questions Research topics that could be addressed Connecting science to monitoring, outreach and decision making Promoting communication across researchers Additional Science components for NPN to consider

  2. A strong scientific research component is necessary to guide procedures and structure, to assure quality and effectivenessof the observational network, and to make NPN “pay off”. However, to what extent the research component is directly integrated into the NPN program, vs. affiliated as an outside aligned activity, needs clarification. A broad research agenda may be too complex and too expensive to include a in the NPN monitoring effort. But should there be a modicum of analysis and within NPN to keep the operational staff engaged with the data and the research community?

  3. Research areas: trends and variability social and economic, including vulnerability hazards (health, ecosystem damage, etc) ecological function and structure National scale, nested network required to address key q’s: weather and climate variations occur at regional to continental scales. Nested intensive & distributed network provides opportunity to inform questions regarding mechanisms and processes revealed in spatial and temporal structure. Ultimately, NPN can inform decisionmakers via a variety of scientific processes: observing, monitoring, analysis, modeling, and predicting Framing questions: *How can NPN be used to observe/detect the effects of climate change and variability on biota *What are vulnerabilities in Nation’s agricultural system? *How does land use affect spatial patterns of phenology? *Effects of changing composition of the atmosphere?

  4. Promoting interactions across researchers Web site Workshops (Regional or topical) Professional meeting sessions Seed grants Graduate course offerings (IGERTs, etc): “Intellectual engineering of phenology as a science from flower to the globe”.

  5. Potential Additional Science components for NPN IT scientists -- data sharing and information transfer Social scientists to study and advise on: organizational structure & dynamics researcher—decisionmaker interactions Research translators for general public and decisionmakers

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