LTER V: New Science, Synthesis, Scholarship, and Strategic Vision for Society

LTER V：新科学、综合、学术和社会战略愿景

• 批准号: 1237491
• 负责人: David Foster
• 金额: $ 490万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1237491&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: LTER; New; Science; Synthesis; Scholarship

The Harvard Forest LTER program is a two decade-strong, integrated research and educational program investigating forest responses to human and environmental change across the New England region. HFR engages more than 30 researchers, 200 graduate and undergraduate students, and dozens of institutions in research that incorporates social, biological, and physical sciences. Scientists conduct this work across multiple time scales: investigating the present, looking back thousands of years, and using that knowledge to calculate future change. Over the next six years, research will integrate the site's site-to-regional-scale strengths in research, education, and outreach to understand the interactive effects of climate change, biological processes, and human land-use on ecosystem dynamics, processes, and the services they provide to humans and wildlife. Researchers will pursue this question by applying long-term data from new and ongoing experiments to integrated scenarios analyses, which are a framework for scientists and decision-makers to work together to determine what factors influence present and future landscape change. These factors will then be incorporated into models to link a range of potential future scenarios, such as a future with limited oil resources, with a range of potential consequences for forest dynamics and ecosystem processes, such as an increase in forest cutting to produce heat and energy formerly produced by oil.To broaden the impacts of its research programs, the Harvard Forest project is committed to strong education and outreach programs that engage K-12, undergraduate, and graduate students, as well as land managers, elected decision-makers, and the news media, to produce and to understand societally-relevant ecological data. This research is part of a national-scale effort led by the Harvard Forest to incorporate regional land-use scenarios at all LTER sites. The inclusion of decision-makers in the production of the results, and public outreach of those results, fills critical knowledge gaps for scientists and the public, and helps decision-makers better use science to address societally-relevant questions.

哈佛森林lter计划是一个二十年的综合研究和教育计划，调查了森林对整个新英格兰地区人类和环境变化的反应。 HFR参与了30多位研究人员，200名毕业生和本科生，并参与了包括社会，生物学和身体科学的研究中的数十家研究机构。科学家在多个时间尺度上进行这项工作：研究当前，回顾数千年，并利用这些知识来计算未来的变化。在接下来的六年中，研究将在研究，教育和宣传方面的站点到区域规模的优势整合，以了解气候变化，生物过程和人类土地利用对生态系统动态，过程及其为人类和野生动植物提供的服务的互动效果。研究人员将通过将新的和正在进行的实验的长期数据应用于综合情景分析来实现这一问题，这是科学家和决策者共同努力以确定哪些因素影响当前和未来景观变化的框架。然后，这些因素将被纳入模型中，以将一系列潜在的未来情况（例如未来的石油资源有限，对森林动态和生态系统过程的潜在后果）联系起来，例如增加森林切割的增加，以产生石油产生的热量和能量。决策者和新闻媒体生产并了解与社会相关的生态数据。这项研究是哈佛森林领导的一项国家规模努力的一部分，该努力纳入了所有卢特遗址的区域土地利用场景。在结果的产生中包括决策者，以及对这些结果的公众宣传，填补了科学家和公众的关键知识差距，并帮助决策者更好地利用科学来解决与社会相关的问题。