[LTER-investigators] Identifying LTER data relevant to "anthropause" effects

[Bill Fraser]

Hello Everybody,

Following up on Alice's comments, I work with Antarctic seabird 
populations at Palmer Station, but I doubt very much our data 
would reflect in any way the "pause" in human activity due to 
COVID, the main reason being that there are so few of us humans 
seasonally interacting with these species in the first place.  If 
there are any other ideas about whether our data may be useful, 
however, I would be happy to hear them.

Best Wishes,

Bill

On 8/18/2020 11:23 AM, Alice Boyle wrote:
> Hello Marty and others,
> 
> I work on bird populations at Konza. This summer we were able to 
> continue the long-term surveys of unmarked individuals on roughly 
> half the watersheds at the site, and we also conducted a somewhat 
> restricted field season focusing on demography of 
> individually-marked Grasshopper Sparrows, Eastern Meadowlarks, 
> and Dickcissels. If you think any of these efforts might be 
> useful to you in this effort, I am happy to share.
> 
> Alice
> 
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> *From:*investigators <investigators-bounces at lists.lternet.edu> 
> *On Behalf Of *Marty Downs
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 12 August, 2020 11:26 AM
> *To:* investigators at lternet.edu
> *Cc:* Sydne Record <srecord at brynmawr.edu>
> *Subject:* [LTER-investigators] Identifying LTER data relevant to 
> "anthropause" effects
> 
> Dear LTER investigators,
> A group of researchers -- led by Evelyn Gaiser, John Kominoski 
> and Diane McKnight -- is hard at work on a paper examining the 
> ecological implications of what we're calling the "anthropause," 
> the broad-scale reduction and relocation of human activities 
> during the pandemic.
> 
> The angle we are pursuing emphasizes the importance of long term 
> ecological networks in understanding how such a disturbance might 
> reorganize human-ecological systems to make them more (or less) 
> resilient. We are combining case studies with remote sensing and 
> referencing available datasets from LTERs and other networks and 
> sources to describe hypotheses about how we expect things might 
> change and identify how they could be tested in the future.
> 
> We expect to complete the manuscript within the month and are 
> putting out a last call for any additional LTER data that might 
> be relevant to the focus areas of
> 
>  1. air, water, and soil biogeochemistry (section lead: Will
>     Wollheim);
>  2. presence, movements, and populations of organisms, esp.
>     wildlife (section leads: Christie Bahlai and Sydney Record);
>  3. human-ecosystem service interactions (section lead: Chingwen
>     Cheng.
> 
> *Examples* of such data that may have been collected during the 
> shutdown include the following, but we are soliciting any types 
> of data that may be relevant.:
> 
>   * Camera trap data
>   * Data about ambient sound and light
>   * Ecosystem service assessments
> 
> To contribute, please email a brief description of the dataset 
> and its relevance to the cc: list on this email, which includes 
> section leads. One of us will follow up to get details and access 
> if appropriate.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Marty, Evelyn, John, Diane
> 
> -- 
> 
> Marty Downs (she/her/hers) ORCID 
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