[LTER-im] Fwd: LTER role definitions

[Marty Downs]

Dear LTER PI's and IM's--

Gary asks a question below which suggests we need some additional
clarification on personnel spreadsheets for the 40 year review data. The
"LTER role" field should be interpreted as "role with respect to your LTER
site" (as opposed to a university-conferred title). Please include under
"investigator," everyone doing research at the site who isn't listed in
another more specific category--whether funded by LTER or not.

The LTER-funded field is intended to capture some modest indication of the
funding relationship (full, partial, none) -- since those are also quite
complex.

"Interested Party" was intended to capture people who may be important to
the site, but who aren't doing research. At the Network level, that would
be the leadership of related networks or organizations (Teresa Mourad, who
runs the SEEDS program at ESA or Tim White who directs the  CZO Network,
for example). At your site, it might be resource managers or education
partners who you consider to be associated with the site, but who aren't
doing research (and who wouldn't, therefore, fit under the other
categories).

Thanks, Marty

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Gary Lovett <lovettg at caryinstitute.org>
Date: Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 10:32 AM
Subject: LTER role definitions
To: Marty Downs <downs at nceas.ucsb.edu>


Hi Marty:



We are working on sending out an information request to our HBR people for
the 40-y review.  At one point in the your instructions you mention that
you are interested in capturing the number of “LTER investigators” that are
not actually funded by the LTER. We have a lot of those people at HBR.
That brings up a question about your “LTER role” category.  If someone is a
researcher or student at the site but is not funded by the LTER, do you
want them to be just an “interested party”, or do you want another category
of “non-funded investigator”?



There is a separate question about whether the person is LTER funded.  So
if you captured all investigators (not just LTER ones) in the question
about LTER role, you could use both pieces of information to figure out how
many investigators are LTER funded and how many are not.



Thanks,



Gary



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