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Enhancing Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research

This meeting aims to unite researchers and agencies to address critical questions regarding biodiversity and ecosystem functionality. Key goals include assessing technological needs, fostering connections between research and educational activities, and exploring the effects of climate variability on organism abundance and distribution. Additional discussions will focus on optimizing data access and enhancing decision-support systems through collaboration. Participants will define actionable strategies to preserve species diversity and address pressing environmental challenges.

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Enhancing Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research

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  1. Goals for Meeting • Bring people together • Suggest additional questions • Define technological needs • Make programmatic connections • Among research activities • Between research & educational activities • Between projects & Center activities • Among agencies

  2. Two of Science’s Top 25 Questions Science, Vol 309, 1 July 2005 > What Determines Species Diversity? CREDIT: MICHAEL T. SHIPLEY > How Will Big Pictures Emerge From a Sea of Biological Data?

  3. Some Other Big Questions • How does climate variability affect the abundance of organisms? • How does climate change affect the distribution of organisms? • Are the organisms in communities fungible, e.g.: how stable are trophic webs at retaining their function? • How does biodiversity relate to the functioning of ecosystems & what are the effects of spatial scale? • From all of the above, what are the hottest of the hot spots for retaining maximum species diversity? • What are the best RS proxies for ecosystem diversity and ecosystem health (e.g., NDVI, NPP, soil moisture, SST/SSH & location of fronts, vegetation structural complexity, rates of disturbance, rates of upwelling, etc.)? And what scales are necessary? • Can we catch evolution in action by first correlating environmental changes at landscape/broader scales with genomic/proteomic changes?

  4. Observations 1 • Frank M-K: Integrated watershed program involving NASA TE, LCLUC, Hydrology, Atmos. Chemistry, Ocean Biology, Biodiversity (MtnCoast) • Dick W: Space Grant Extension Program • Gary G: Research to Operations challenges • Gary G: Data Access & Continuity, Communication to policy makers

  5. Observations 2 • Jeff M: How to take full advantage of data providers, e.g.: GLCF, TRFIC, EAGLE-EYE • Woody T: How to get the most out of operational decision support efforts, e.g.: SERVIR, ISFS, TOPS, VISTA, via linkage • Woody T: Mapping to Modeling • Woody T: Overall importance of climate

  6. Next Meeting • Utility of this Meeting • Timing • Location • Format • Working Groups • Other?

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