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October 2008 Workshop in Washington, DC

Faculty Development Opportunity

Using Continental-scale Data to Teach Undergraduate Ecology

Workshop Dates

Oct 2-4, 2008

Where

American Association for the Advancement of ScienceWashington, DC

Workshop Objectives

  1. explore the breadth and scope of continental-scale data;
  2. reflect on the use of continental-scale approaches in the classroom and in independent undergraduate research projects;
  3. generate recommendations to inform the development of NEON’s physical and cyberinfrastructure from the point of view of education;
  4. generate recommendations to inform the development of Phase 2 that will include collaborative faculty and student activities.

Workshop Program

The workshop was organized around two grand challenges identified by NEON based on findings of the National Research Council: (1) climate change and (2) land-use change. These areas were selected based on currently available local and continental data sets since NEON infrastructure is currently being built and is not yet generating data. For the workshop, ESA worked with the data available through EcoTrends, the Forestry Inventory and Analysis data from the USDA Forest Service, and the Land-Use Analysis Package from the US Geological Survey.

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