PAL/CCE LTER and CIP ParticipationLTER Social Science Workshop

August 3-5, 2005, Athens, GAOrganizers: Ted Gragson (CWT), Morgan Grove (BES);

Charles Redman (CAP); Dan Childers (FCE)23 of 26 LTER sites represented

Vision: The LTER Planning effort envisions ecologists and socialscientists working as equal partners in the LTER Network of the future.

Goal: Prepare NSF presentation for September 2005.

Tasks:-site survey to assess the existing social science disciplinary capacitywithin the Network and to determine the long-term goals and criteria forsuccess -consider guidelines for social science inquiry in the LTER presented byRedman, Grove and Kuby intended to parallel the core biophysicalresearch guidelines used at LTER sites since the beginning of the program

-consider social science in the LTER Network of the future

- consider social science questions for a research agenda

Participant Ongoing Interests: historicalimperatives and decision making; land-use change;emerging diseases; landscape ethnography; sociallandscape; recreational land-use; social survey ofcommunity; mobile people land claims; sociology ofscience and collaboration; social informatics;effectiveness of international agreements;anthropology; stakeholder identification; water usesurveys; survey research -public perceptions; policyanalysis; technical transfer to policy; environmentalplace narratives; residence surveys; recreational usemapping; conflict research

PAL/CCE LTER and Comparative Interoperability Project ParticipationRepresentative: Karen BakerArea of Interest: Sociotechnical InformaticsSuggested Question: What are the processes by which local knowledge isrepresented in LTER data?