Goals for Meeting

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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

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Two of Sciences Top 25 Questions


Science, Vol 309, 1 July 2005
gt What Determines Species Diversity?
CREDIT MICHAEL T. SHIPLEY
gt How Will Big Pictures Emerge From a Sea of
Biological Data?
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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?

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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

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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

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