Long-Term Flux Observation and Ecosystem Research Networks - Benefits for Science and Society
Distributed continental and global scale research infrastructures have fundamentally changed the environmental and ecological research landscape. They help forming new scientific collaborations and institutionalise existing ones, also across science disciplines and between data collectors and users. The net-working is supported by stakeholders at various scales and motivated by their various expectations -ultimately, the products’ usefulness for society. Since monitoring ideally extends indefinitely into the future, a challenge for contributing scientific institutes is to earn a sustainable funding and support by proving to be relevant to these goals. This relationship poses a communication challenge and this session offers a platform for communication across the whole scientific community including stakeholders.
We encourage contributions that
- present new developments and discussions from within the network community, for example with respect to standardization and co-location of measurements
- demonstrate unique and novel results that were made possible from the supports from the networks, and
- describe and assess the relevance of products from these networks for stakeholders and the society in general.
In this session, we aim at cultivating a scientific and personal dialogue between the heterogeneous parts of this growing scientific community. We invite participants, users and stakeholders of the networks to contribute to this dialogue and learn from other perspectives and experiences for the benefits of further developing this new and growing culture of scientific collaboration.
While the initiative originates from within the Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS), we particularly welcome contributions from other networks that relate their work to biogeochemistry research.