2022 LTER All Scientists' Meeting

Understanding pulse dynamics is important to improving prediction in ecology. Climate change is altering hydrologic regimes, but the degree to which ecological responses are coupled to hydrologic pulses likely varies among ecosystems. A pulse is an abrupt change in system variables. Pulses may be isolated, when caused by single disturbances, or recur over variable time scales, including daily to seasonal.

This third and final workshop will begin with more lightning talks of de novo time-series analyses of long-term data from the ‘data jam’ breakouts from the second workshop. Following these presentations, we will have a discussion of product development opportunities that consider best-practice analytical approaches to long-term data, integration of long-term data from multiple networks within and outside the US LTER, and how to compare long-term data from different temporal and spatial scales. Finally, this workshop will end with six strategic breakout groups working on (i) troubleshooting data generated from the three-day workshop, (ii) site and climate data, (iii) pulse metrics and methods, (iv) manuscript conceptual development, (v) figures & cross-site results, and (vi) synthesis proposal development.

Google Drive of Tutorials and Metrics Outputs:
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1BgUdBmG7pYesBapZX5zhipXH20_DeuX2

Pulse Metrics Database here

Agenda
1:30-2:00 PM Lightning Talks
2:00-2:20 PM Brainstorming, Data Synthesis & Emerging Themes
2:20-3:00 PM Breakout Groups (recruit 3 additional leaders from Day 2)
1. Model Troubleshooting
2. Tables and text of Site Data & Climate Data
3. Metric Variables & Methods
4. Manuscript Introduction & Background
5. Figures & Cross-Site results
6. Proposal development (12 in-person groups) - October 12 deadline