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ICRI - Internationalization 1B Fostering cooperation and synergies while avoiding unnecessary duplication of facilities and services National Ecological Observatory Network Hank Loescher | Battelle - National Ecological Observatory Network

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ICRI - Internationalization 1B Fostering cooperation and synergies while avoiding unnecessary duplication of facilities and services

Hank Loescher | Battelle - National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Director of Strategic Projects, Environment and Infrastructure Business Unit

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Challenge - Technical

Infrastructure means different things to different communities: Here, it includes Observatories, Networks, Agency Programs, fairly broad inclusion

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Integrating Networks & Research

Peters, D. P. C., H. W. Loescher, M. SanClements and K. M. Havstad 2014. Taking the pulse of a continent: role

  • f observatories and long-term research networks to fill critical knowledge gaps. Ecosphere. 5(3), Article 29, 1-23,

dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES13-00295.1

  • n-site knowledge

infrastructure

  • n-site expertise

It is the integration of different observations systems that develops new ecological understandings and knowledge, each with their own level of knowledge, expertise and infrastructure

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Challenge - Technical

It is all about the data, and what the data can tell us e-infrastructures FAIR = Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (1) Interoperability for Scientific Utility is different (2) Why the data are taken? Hypotheses / requirements (3) Traceability to Standards / First Principles / BCP + uncertainties (4) Data Product Algorithms + Uncertainties Forums / Projects = RDA, ESIP, ENVRI+, Coop+, CoopEUS

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Challenge - Programmatic

Use of International Advisory Boards Technical Working Groups Periodic Evaluations Joint Reviews of Standards, Protocols Joint Scientific Forums Joint Scientific Projects Memorandum of Understanding International Bodies (e.g., GSO, GEO, SAON) Example: Global Research Infrastructure Initiative

Internal activities external activities

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Challenge - Cultural

Numerous studies and analyses: the challenge is NOT technical. The Challenge is overcoming Cultural Barriers in how science is done Cultural challenge is still prevalent:

  • How to best balance top-down and bottom-up approaches?
  • How best craft a governance and management structures

that also takes into account the top-down and bottom-up approaches

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