sesync at a glance jan2015
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serving the research community to
accelerate discovery of solutions to socio-environmental problems
National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center
Annapolis, Maryland
www.SESYNC.org
NATIONAL SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL SYNTHESIS CENTER
• National Science Foundation funded ($6M/yr)
• University of Maryland is the host institution (ca. $1M/yr)
• Inaugural opening in January 2012
• Located in historic Annapolis, Maryland
1 Park Place, Annapolis, MD< 1 mile from City Dock and State Houses
SESYNC goals
Accelerate discovery and actionable science on S-E problems
Building new communities
Building capacity
Fostering the synthesis process: the center as experiment
Synthesis teams: natural and social science scholars & “k-
users”
Life Sciences
30%
Geosciences
11%Computer Science
9%
Engineering4%
Social Sciences
30%
Public Health
1%
Planning2%
Business1%
Public Policy
9%
Education3%
N = 241
Scholars
58%
Knowledge Users…
Theme 3 Participants
Epistemological
SESYNC challenge
We are all in agreement
then.
MAY INVOLVE:• Facilitating group process (development of shared cognitive frameworks, etc.)
• Assistance with integration and analysis of data sets (qual, quant, spatially explicit scale diff.)
• Teaching/advising new methods (e.g., critical analysis to evaluating textual or oral arguments)
Thematic rfp Team meetings
Priming webinar
Final Proposal
xteam PI meeting
Proposal to panel
Proposal input
Planning Agendas
Other support (funding, match-making)
Meeting facilitation
Check-in webinars /
meeting
Computational support
Products
the SESYNC processSESYNC leadership engagement
TEAM work
Core Programs
WorkshopsThematic Pursuits
Grad &
Undergrad
Researchers
Postdoctoral
FellowsShort Courses
Research
Fellows
Foundations in
S-E Synthesis
Ventures
Themes for Current Projects
Ecological Wealth and Changing Human Populations
Globalization and Environmental Change
Assessment and Modeling Of Ecosystem Services
Water, People, and Ecosystems
Learning to Integrate Across Natural & Social Sciences
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Data Intensive Analysis & Modeling of S-E Systems
Themes for Graduate Students
The Practice of SES Involves:
Education
Overall VisionAccelerate pedagogy and build capacity to train students in S-E synthesis
Knowledge
Ventures: “Pedagogy Study”, “Learning to
Integrate
across Disciplines” , “State
Policies”
Short Courses: “Case Studies in SES”
Individuals
Interdisciplina
ry Teams
Undergraduate Programs Graduate
Programs
Postdoctoral
Fellows
Skills
Data-Intensive Analysis and Modeling for
Socio-Environmental Systems
Theoretical and Computational Research –
Postdoctoral Program
Open
continuously
New programs
Postdoctoral Socio-environmental Immersion Program
Theme for 2014-15: Ecological systems, Social systems &
Environmental change
Applications due October 15, 2014
New programs
• Discovery / knowledge generation
• Preparation for inter- trans- disciplinary S-E research
• Build new S-E communities
• Advance theory
DEVELOPING
Water-Food Systems Resilience
SESYNC-USDA-USGS Collaboration:
“Data to Motivate Synthesis”
Young Scholars Program • Discovery / knowledge generation
• Build new S-E communities
• Build computational capacity
• Advancing Synthesis
Venture Projects (examples)
Land Use Change and Infectious Disease (Dobson,
Bharti, Bonds)
Microbial Ecosystem Services (Febria, Beman, de la
Reyes)
Linking Local Consumption to Global Impacts (Hubacek,
Feng)
Macroevolution of Ecosystem Services (Cavendar-Bares,
Polasky)
Human Risk Perception of Global Climate Change &
Examples – Workshops & Foundations
Workshops
Visualization technologies to support socio-environmental researchJaJa, Shelley, Smorul
Learning Exchanges for Conservation: Lessons LearnedJenkins, Peckham
Foundations:
Ecological vs. Political Time Scales: Human Response & Management Alan Hastings (UC-Davis), Lynn Maguire (Duke University)
Environmental Psychology Methods, Theories & S-E SystemsSusan Clayton (College of Wooster), Patrick Devine Wright (Univ Manchester)