2015-12-11 TLC v0.1 Demo

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Large-scale environmental changes are unfolding at an unprecedented pace, magnitude, and scale across the globe. These changes impact socio-ecological systems, including the natural capital that provides goods and services which society depends on. Tribal entities are especially prone to such changes. The natural resources that they have rights to, and on which cultural norms may be dependent on, are impacted by environmental stressors whose scale extend far beyond defined tribal jurisdictions.

The US Government (USG), through initiatives like the Climate Action Plan and the legally mandated National Climate Assessment, recognizes aspects of these challenges. The USG is also advocating better integration of US environmental observation assets and making those data freely web accessible for science, education, and management. There is also widespread recognition that we should align climate-adaptation options with the best available science and data.

The Tribal Lands Collaboratory (TLC) is an Esri-NEON collaboration to assemble existing technologies into a web-based workbench that enables multidisciplinary teams to perform integration, analysis, and interpretation of environmental data. Teams may comprise students, scientists, natural resource managers, and even the general public. The value-chain of transforming data to information and knowledge is captured at each step of the transformation to enable traceability and reproducibility.

Tribal Lands Collaboratory v0.1 Demo:

An ODE to Phenology

Brian Wee, Ph.D.

Strategic Alliances

National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Inc.

2015-12-11

Framework for understanding change

Large-scale Environmental Changes

1. Mussel and barnacle beds have declined

2. Northern flickers arrive at breeding sites earlier, egg laying advanced (phenology change)

3. Increase mortality of conifers

NEON: one of the major US investments in observing change

Sentinels

Measurements

• Pathogens
• Productivity
• Biomass
• Biogeochemistry

• Phenology
• Diversity
• Abundance
• Function

• Ticks
• Small Mammals
• Birds
• Fish
• Plants

• Soil
• Microbes
• Algae
• Aquatic Invertebrates
• Mosquitos

Soil Measurements

Aquatic Measurements

Atmospheric Measurements

• Temperature
• Moisture
• CO2
• Heat flux
• Root growth and phenology

• In-stream / in-lake
• Groundwater
• Underwater PAR
• Temperature
• Flow, depth

• Key climate inputs
• Bioclimatic variables
• Chemical climate inputs
• Carbon cycle changes
• Water & energy balance

Source: Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Ecosystem Services. Technical Input to the 2013 National Climate Assessment (7406884d)

Data into Information and Knowledge

Tribal Lands Collaboratory

Strategy

Prototype ODE Implementation

Why Web-Based Collaboratories?

Desired Collaboratory Capabilities

• Multidisciplinary, complex challenges
• Geographically distributed teams
• Community building, establishes sense of the bigger picture

• Maintains linkage between data, information, knowledge
• "chain of custody"
• "provenance"
• Access control
• Version control

OSF allows structuring data and information; Encapsulation

Encapsulating The Force

• Open Science Framework for user management, documenting provenance, and sharing sensitive data

• Dropbox for sharing data, and a mechanism for sharing less sensitive data; Interface to Esri technologies

• Esri technologies for geospatial analyses and communication

The Big Picture

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