University of the Virgin Islands: Living on Earth III: Social-Ecological Systems Workshop 2012, October 24-28, 2012

2012年10月24日至28日在维尔京群岛大学举行的地球上生活III（LOE III）研讨会讨论了在社会生态系统研究中有效整合科学知识和分析方法的必要性。本次研讨会延续了前两次研讨会的重要工作（LOE I和II），由阿拉斯加EPSCoR组织和主办，2009-2011年，其中包括，在EPSCoR管辖范围内建设可持续性科学和人类-自然/社会-生态系统耦合科学方面的科学和研究能力，并促进LOE-SES科学网络的正规化和功能化，促进削减-边缘和变革性的科学思想。LOE III侧重于在具有挑战性的人类维度的小而关键的生态系统背景下概念化SES科学。具体而言，研讨会强调三个重点主题，即促进科学为我们对人类-自然系统关键耦合变化的知识和理解提供信息;社会涌现在解决脆弱性方面的作用，同时促进多个社会-生态变化中的生态系统管理;以及深化嵌套多尺度的科学整合，促进可持续和有复原力的成果。除了这三个核心主题之外，LOE III研讨会还通过提供“带回家”活动开发会议，为参与者和参与者EPSCoR管辖区提供在其家乡机构建立和发展社会生态系统活动的技能和能力。在这一环节中，研讨会参与者为当地社区、大学和/或机构创造了一个有意义的社会生态系统练习。研讨会的评估将在多个层面进行：在整个研讨会期间持续进行，在科学讨论和互动对话之后纳入参与者的评估;通过一个调查工具在线调查每次会议和研讨会的总体经验，和后EPSCoR管辖区举办的研讨会，每个团队将负责报告LOE III经历后推动或计划的具体成果。研讨会的目的是：（a）在LOE I和II以前的非正式网络方法的基础上，正式化和构建一个新的LOE-SES EPSCoR科学网络;（B）产生具有特定目的和目标的主题子网络组（如NSF提案提交，包括跨EPSCoR合作，特殊问题或书籍提案提交，会议和科学会议的章节或小组提案等），和;（c）开发LOE-SES网络工具包，以建设EPSCoR管辖范围内的能力，特别是将生物物理科学家与社会/行为科学家结合起来，促进SES科学。

The Living on Earth III (LOE III) workshop, October 24-28, 2012, University of the Virgin Islands,addresses the need for effective integration of processes linking scientific knowledge and analytical approaches in social-ecological systems research. This workshop continues the important work of the two previous workshops (LOE I and II) organized and hosted by Alaska EPSCoR, between 2009-2011, including among others, building science and research capacity in sustainability science and coupled human-natural/socio-ecological systems (SES) science across EPSCoR jurisdictions and facilitating the formalization and functionality of a LOE-SES scientific network promotes cutting-edge and transformative science ideas. LOE III focuses on conceptualizing SES science in the context of small, yet critical ecosystems with challenging human dimensions. Specifically,the workshop emphasizes three focal themes, namely, promoting science to inform our knowledge and understanding of critical coupled human-natural system transformations; the role of social emergence in addressing vulnerability while promoting ecosystem stewardship across multiple social-ecological transformations, and; deepening scientific integration at nested multiple scales promoting sustainable and resilient outcomes. In addition to these three core themes, the LOE III workshop provides participants and participant EPSCoR jurisdictions the skills and capability to build and develop social-ecological system's activities at their home institutions, by offering a "Bringing it Home" activity development session. In this session the workshop participants create a meaningful social-ecological systems exercise for their local community, university, and/or institution.Evaluation of the workshop will be conducted in multiple levels: continuously throughout the workshop by incorporating participant evaluations following the scientific discourse and interactive dialogue; online through a survey tool for each session and for the overall experience of the workshop, and post-workshop by EPSCoR jurisdictions where each team will be tasked to report on specific outcomes promoted or planned after the LOE III experience.Specific outcomes from the workshop are to: (a)formalize and structure a new LOE-SES EPSCoR scientific network building upon previous informal network approaches from LOE I and II; (b) generate thematic sub-network groups with specific aims and goals (such as NSF proposal submissions incorporating cross-EPSCoR collaborations, special-issue or book proposal submissions, sections or panel proposals for conferences and scientific meetings, etc., and; (c) develop a LOE-SES network toolkit for building within-EPSCoR jurisdictional capacity especially for integrating biophysical with social/behavioral scientists for SES science.