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. The so formed scientific networks institutionalise collaborations within and across science disciplines and between data collection and use. The net-working is supported by stakeholders at various scales and motivated by their various expectations, basically, in a broader sense, the products’ usefulness for society. The temporal scope of this collaboration is unlimited and sustainability of the support must be earned by the relevance of the outcomes from in the various stakeholders’ perspectives. 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,
- demonstrate unique and novel results that were made possible from the unique 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.