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The LTER Network Office: An Overview of Recent Developments Robert B. Waide Executive Director. 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.
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The LTER Network Office: An Overview of Recent Developments Robert B. Waide Executive Director
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
Steps Taken – Assessment and Evaluation LTER Network annual review of LNO
LTER Synthesis Stages Site Science Site Synthesis Cross-site/Extra Site Synthesis Network Synthesis Cross-network Synthesis
LTER Synthesis Stages Site Science Site Synthesis Cross-site/Extra Site Synthesis Network Synthesis Cross-network Synthesis
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
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
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?)
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
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
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
2006 Collaboration Network without SGS with reset spring embedding layout