Biodiversity and Ecosystem ServicesInternational Research Opportunity
Origins of the Joint Program
• SESYNC and UFZ had early interest in collaboration (Karin Frank, Bill Fagan, Margaret Palmer etc.)
• Clear overlap with UFZ, sDiv and SESYNC Themes (Ecosystem Services)
• Many discussions and development of a shared agenda and understanding of roles
• Shared RFP developed • Mechanisms to facilitate program discussed and
developed
Program Structure
• Joint Review Panel (US and German) leading to shared decisions on projects
• Small Teams (5-10) working for ~12 months• Team meetings alternate between SESYNC, UFZ
and sDiv – per year one meeting in Germany• Computational Support offered by SESYNC• All Team Leads and Members meet together at
SESYNC at the start (Feb. 2014).• All Team Leads and Members meet at SESYNC at
the conclusion (Dec. 2015)
Leads Pursuit Title
Christoph KuefferETH ZurichDavid Richardson Stellenbosch University
Anticipatory governance and societal feedbacks in socioenvironmentaltransitions: multi-continental Acaciainvasions as a model system
Ralf SeppeltMartin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (UFZ)Sandra Lavorel Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)Peter VerburgIVM Institute for Environmental
Studies
Effects of land use on the trade-off
between biodiversity and provisioning
ecosystem
Myla AronsonRutgers University Charles NilonUniversity of Missouri
Ecological and social linkages among biodiversity, ESS, and environmental policy and management in the world’s cities
Project Leads Title
Maja SchlüterStockholm Resilience CentreMarco Janssen Arizona State University
Synthesis of micro-scale human decision making to mitigate risks to ecosystem services
David Moreno MateosCentre D’Ecologie Fonctionnelle & EvolutiveHolly Jones Northern Illinois University
Feedbacks between biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services during the recovery process of restored ecosystems after anthropogenic disturbance
Seeta SistlaUniversity of CA, IrvineDaniel Kramer Michigan State University
Playing dominoes with tipping points? Exploring the linkages between anthropogenically-driven shifts in marine and terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services in a rapidly globalizing coastal region within the Mesoamerica Biodiversity Hotspot
Team Members
USA (23) Germany (12)
South Africa (4) United Kingdom (4)
Sweden (3) Portugal (3)
Netherlands (3) Spain (2)
Australia (2) Switzerland (2)
Canada(1) Chile (1)
Mexico (1) Nicaragua (1)
Opportunities and Challenges
• Opportunities– Linking Projects (Theme meetings and Check-in
Video Conference)
– Opportunities to Engage Postdocs
– Other Educational Opportunities
• Challenges– Timing and scheduling
– Travel and Reimbursement
– Remote participants (by Video-Conference)
Opportunities and Challenges
• Opportunities– Including local researchers (@ SESYNC, UFZ, iDiv) –
that have not been part of the core team but very influential/helpful (e.g. local PhD’s, iDIv Ecosystem Service Professor etc)
– @sDiv & @UFZ – each group gave public seminars with great success and possibilities to interact with workshop people afterwards
– One group organizes a Summershool after their UFZ meeting near Leipzig:„How to model human decision making in social-ecological agent-based models”
Opportunities and Challenges
• Opportunities
Opportunities and Challenges
• Opportunities– Including local researchers (@ SESYNC, UFZ, iDiv) –
that have not been part of the core team but very influential/helpful (e.g. local PhD’s, iDIv Ecosystem Service Professor etc)
Opportunities and Challenges
• Opportunities– Including local researchers (@ SESYNC, UFZ, iDiv) –
that have not been part of the core team but very influential/helpful (e.g. local PhD’s, iDIv Ecosystem Service Professor etc)
– @sDiv & @UFZ – each group gave public seminars with great success and possibilities to interact with workshop people afterwards
Opportunities and Challenges
• Opportunities– Including local researchers (@ SESYNC, UFZ, iDiv) –
that have not been part of the core team but very influential/helpful (e.g. local PhD’s, iDIv Ecosystem Service Professor etc)
– @sDiv & @UFZ – each group gave public seminars with great success and possibilities to interact with workshop people afterwards
– One group organizes a Summershool after their UFZ meeting near Leipzig:
Opportunities and Challenges
• Opportunities– Including local researchers (@ SESYNC, UFZ, iDiv) –
that have not been part of the core team but very influential/helpful (e.g. local PhD’s, iDIv Ecosystem Service Professor etc)
– @sDiv & @UFZ – each group gave public seminars with great success and possibilities to interact with workshop people afterwards
– One group organizes a Summershool after their UFZ meeting near Leipzig:„How to model human decision making in social-ecological agent-based models”
Opportunities and Challenges
• Challenges
Opportunities and Challenges
• Challenges
– sDiv does not book travel (but we had governmental participants)
Opportunities and Challenges
• Challenges
– sDiv does not book travel (but we had governmental participants)
– Including iDiv Researchers – timing
Opportunities and Challenges
• Challenges
– sDiv does not book travel (but we had governmental participants)
– Including iDiv Researchers – timing
– Foresee budget allocation in an already small budget
Opportunities and Challenges
• Challenges
– sDiv does not book travel (but we had governmental participants)
– Including iDiv Researchers – timing
– Foresee budget allocation in an already small budget
– Plans for an anticipated across-working group synthesis might be to ambitious...
Results & Future
sDiv would like to do similar collaborationsagain!
• Visibility of our centres increased in the different research communities
• sDiv staff (including me) learned a lot fromSESYNC staff -> Thanks!!!!
• First promising scientific outcomes are on their way
Thanks!