| Thursday, August 7, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM | |||
| 202 B, Midwest Airlines Center | |||
| OOS 21 - Building Research and Monitoring Networks For Population and Ecosystem Ecology | |||
| This session will highlight the expanding role of Ecological Research and Monitoring Networks (ERMNs) in ecology. ERMNs are sets of sites where the same population and/or ecosystem measurements are made by multiple users in a coordinated fashion. ERMNs’ data gathering ranges from one-time measurements to decades of annual monitoring, and from tens of kilometers to global in scale. ERMNs can be institutionalized or ad hoc, can move biological material as well as data, and can include tens of thousands of individuals. The use of ERMNs has been growing rapidly in many disciplines, and multiple continental-scale ERMNs with broad mandates are currently under development. One theme of the session is to learn more about how ERMNs are constructed and function, while delineating their benefits to ecological understanding. We have assembled a group of speakers that run population ERMNs as well as ecosystem ERMNs, spanning well-funded successes as well as those that are run on shoestrings, and lastly those that not only monitor but also perform replicated, coordinated experiments. Each presenter will be asked to provide background on their ERMN and describe how it runs. For example, how is methodology standardized, how is research coordinated among members, and how are they funded? The majority of each talk will be on key results and insights that have been learned from the network. Lastly, we’ll ask each speaker to contextualize their network with other, similar networks and to conclude with a vision of the future for their network. We hope that by profiling a diversity of ERMNs, we can urge government agencies and other funding institutions to make greater commitments to increasing the amount and long-term stability of funding for ERMNs. We will end our session with a synthesis talk that lays out a vision for how to progress with ERMNs coupled with a panel discussion on some of the major outstanding issues. | |||
| Organizer: | Joseph M. Craine, Kansas State University | ||
| Co-organizer: | Gary M. Lovett, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies | ||
| Moderator: | Joseph M. Craine, Kansas State University | ||
| 1:30 PM | OOS 21-1 | North American Breeding Bird Survey: 42 years strong and growing David Ziolkowski Jr., US Geological Survey, Keith L. Pardieck, US Geological Survey | |
| 1:50 PM | OOS 21-2 | North American Amphibian Monitoring Program (NAAMP): A multi-state partnership to provide population status and trends for calling amphibians Linda Weir, US Geological Survey | |
| 2:10 PM | OOS 21-3 | Developing monitoring methods for amphibians and reptiles in the Great Lakes Gary S. Casper, Great Lakes Ecological Services LLC, Stefanie Nadeau, Ozaukee Washington Land Trust, Shawn Graff, Ozaukee Washington Land Trust | |
| 2:30 PM | OOS 21-4 | Assessing the utility of the IFMAP statewide forest resource database for use in monitoring wildlife habitat in Michigan L. Jay Roberts, Michigan State University, Erica L. Mize, Michigan State University, Michael L. Donovan, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Brian A. Maurer, Michigan State University | |
| 2:50 PM | OOS 21-5 | Citizen-science monitoring networks: A case study Karen Oberhauser, University of Minnesota | |
| 3:10 PM | Break | ||
| 3:20 PM | OOS 21-6 | The Great North American Dip-In: A lake-monitoring network Robert Carlson, Kent State University | |
| 3:40 PM | OOS 21-7 | Lessons from LINX I and II: A network of stream experiments Patrick J. Mulholland, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| 4:00 PM | OOS 21-8 | The National Atmospheric Deposition Program: Lessons from a continental-scale monitoring network David A. Gay, NADP Program Office, Christopher M.B. Lehmann, NADP Program Office, Van Bowersox, NADP Program Office | |
| 4:20 PM | OOS 21-9 | Air pollution and ecosystem impacts: Building an integrated set of ecological indicators Christine Negra, The Heinz Center, Robin O'Malley, The Heinz Center, Emilian Geczi, University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | |
| 4:40 PM | OOS 21-10 | The AmeriFlux Network: Observations to understand the role of the terrestrial biosphere in climate change Beverly E. Law, Oregon State University | |
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