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Principal Investigator(s):

The MALS project is a collaborative effort to develop common methods for research on social-ecological systems at the LTER network scale.

We request funding to help support a cross-site comparative analysis, produce final products of the MALS collaborative effort, and build on the MALS experience to plan for future cross-site research.

To meet this objective we propose a 2.5-day workshop during the late summer or early fall (August-October) of 2010 that will result in:

  1. Two or more synthesis papers for submission to scientific journals
  2. A first draft of a large external research funding proposal
Products:

    Posters:

    1) Nguyen, T.T., Hepinstall-Cymerman, J., Gragson, T., Chamblee, J. and Pontius Jr, R.G. “Sensitivity of land cover analysis to category aggregation”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010.

    2) Xiang, W., Pontius Jr., R.G., Onsted, J.A. “The Markov matrix versus the Duration, Category and Transition (DCT) matrix: a case study of land change in the Florida Coastal Ecosystems” Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010

    3) Meng, F. “Method to Show the Level of Stationarity of a Land Change Process along a Gradient: Forest Regrowth at Hubbard Brook”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010.

    4) Meng, F. “Land Change Process along Ecological Gradients: Forest Regrowth at Hubbard Brook, NH”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010.

    5) Alpern, J. “Can Observed Differences Between Maps of Two Times be Explained by Error?”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010.

    6) Si, K., McCune, M., Pontius Jr., R.G., Gosnell, H., “Land Change intensity analysis on Andrews, Oregon”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010

    7) Si, K., McCune, M., Pontius Jr., R.G., Gosnell, H., “Land Change Intensity Analysis for H.J.Andrews, Oregon”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010.

    8) Heburn, T. “Jornada LTER Site: Three Level Analysis of Land Category Change”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010.

    9) Heburn, T. “Jornada Basin Long Term Ecological Research Site: Conversion of Grassland to Shrubland”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010.

    10) Wilson, N., Brandão Jr., A., Pontius Jr., R.G. “Konza Long Term Environmental Research Site: A Characterization of Land Change from 1990-2009”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010.

    11) Zhang, E. “Assessment of Land Change Around Forest Conservation Areas in Luquillo, Puerto Rico”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010

    12) Zhang, Y. “Analysis of Trends in Land Category Transitions for More Than Three Points in Time”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010

    13) Zhang, Y. “Do Builders Consistently Target Forest from 1971 to 1999?”.Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010

    14) Yao, Y. “Reconciling inconsistencies of maps that were created with different methods for 1999 and 2005”. Presented in Washington DC at the Association of American Geographers. April 2010.

Start Date: November 30, 2009
Meeting Dates:
  • October 7, 2010 - October 10, 2010: ,
Synthesis Products:
Participants:
  • The proposed workshop will take place at the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus andinvolve between 22 and 32 scientists (assuming two per site and less-than-totalparticipation from the unfunded collaborators).
Sites Represented:
  • Potentially all Sites plus sites in Scotland, France and Switzerland