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The LTER Network Office: An Overview of Recent Developments Robert B. Waide Executive Director

Explore recent developments and key objectives in the Long-Term Ecological Research Network to drive cross-disciplinary integration and research progress. Learn how the LTER Network Office facilitates collaboration, funds, evaluates, and enhances research efforts.

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The LTER Network Office: An Overview of Recent Developments Robert B. Waide Executive Director

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  1. The LTER Network Office: An Overview of Recent Developments Robert B. Waide Executive Director

  2. GEO-OCE SBE, EHR OPP DEB 30 Year Review 10 Year Review 20 Year Review ASM ASM ASM ASM ASM ASM ASM Kansas Oregon-Washington New Mexico

  3. Steps Taken – Assessment and Evaluation LTER Network annual review of LNO

  4. LTER Synthesis Stages Site Science Site Synthesis Cross-site/Extra Site Synthesis Network Synthesis Cross-network Synthesis

  5. LTER Synthesis Stages Site Science Site Synthesis Cross-site/Extra Site Synthesis Network Synthesis Cross-network Synthesis

  6. Support • Grow the pot • Increase available funds in LNO by fund-raising, re-allocation, and economies • Use existing monies more effectively • Smaller awards, but more of them • Address communication challenges innovatively • Continue conversations with NCEAS • Try to score big • Foundations, other NSF programs, other agencies

  7. Facilitate • Expand use of videoconferencing technology • Facilitate use of other interaction technologies like collaboration portals and wiki pages • Help define and implement the steps leading to effective collaboration • Help plan and build relevant databases • Use the training lab • Facilitate proposals focusing on synthesis

  8. Enhance • With more resources, add salary and eventually post-docs to working groups • Provide sufficient funds for multiple meetings • Encourage continued strategic planning • Help achieve the goals of the Decadal Plan • Evaluate large-scale solutions (S&T Centers?)

  9. Key Objectives of the Integrated Research Plan • Perform fundamental research that transcends the ecological and social sciences • Conduct research over long time spans to reveal trends and dynamics of important processes • Provide a conceptual framework and theoretical foundations for social-ecological science • Integrate education and research by focusing on environmental literacy and public education • Improve cyberinfrastructure to acquire, deliver, curate, and integrate scientific information

  10. What can the LNO do? • Provide leadership and resources to encourage cross-disciplinary integration • Identify and address technological and socio-cultural challenges that impede progress • Support efforts to add detail to the IRP to make it operational • Adapt to new challenges and responsibilities as the IRP becomes operational

  11. Other LNO reviews UNM reviews • Annual review of Executive Director • Annual review of research faculty • Annual review of staff • Annual review of CREST NSF reviews • Mid-term reviews • Renewal site visits • Annual report to NSF • Oversight by Program Officer Independent reviews • Annual review by the LTER National Advisory Board • 10 Year Reviews of LTER

  12. 2006 Collaboration Network with SGS

  13. 2006 Collaboration Network without SGS no change in layout

  14. 2006 Collaboration Network without SGS with reset spring embedding layout

  15. 2006 Network layout by PCA

  16. 2006 Network without SGSlayout by PCA

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