The Tribal Lands Collaboratory: Building partnerships and developing tools to support local Tribal community response to climate change.

The Tribal Lands Collaboratory: Building partnerships and developing tools to support local tribal community response to climate change

PRESENTATION AVAILABLE AT: https://prezi.com/15iwgoxuel-5/2015-12-11-tlc-v01-demo/

Tribal Lands Collaboratory v0.1 Demo: An ODE to Phenology

Brian Wee, NEON

• Collaboration born out of conversation with ESRI leadership

• Adaptation to large-scale changes due to climate change, land use, invasive species, etc.

• Target use case: tribes in Seattle area

• Tribal lands collaboratory is integration of existing technologies, essentially a voluntary activity by the folks who are heading it up

• What’s going on, and what problem are we trying to solve?

  • US Global Change Research Program

    • every four years has to produce an analysis of how changes are affecting our ecosystem services

  • Native American traditional ecological knowledge often relies on phenology, which is changing…

• Tribes collect information about plants and put in database (for now, only widespread species bc not considered sensitive info) -- thinking about starting to collect phenological data

  • lots of support from Northwest Indian Colleges (three locations in western Washington state)

• Framework for understanding change

  • social-ecological system (ecological and social processes are intricately linked)

    • processes (social AND ecological) operate in different realms, at different speeds, and at different scales

    • any problem you are trying to solved is linked to a number of other things operating at different time and spatial scales, different locations, etc.

    • In order to forecast trajectory of Earth system, have to grapple with these challenges; observation systems like NEON attempt to help with this

  • NEON

    • observes large-scale, slow processes over entire US; data is freely-accessible

    • NEON doesn’t ANALYZE the data or turn it into knowledge

  • Socio-ecological indicators developed and approved by White House to indicate the state of the environment (as GDP is for economy) -- many countries have adopted these

  • data → tools/models → indicators → publications, assessments, value-added data products

• Why web-based collaboratories?

  • Born out of the Earth Science Collaboratory at ESIP

  • Multidisciplinary, complex challenges

  • Geographically distributed teams

  • Community building, establishes sense of the bigger picture

  • desired collaboratory capabilities

    • supports traceability/reproducibility

      • want to be able to step back in time and see how someone created a data product

    • persistent identifier support to enable citability

      • ability to cite certain steps in a workflow

    • access rights management

    • repurposibility

    • scalibility

      • to multiple parties/users (or tribes)

    • looking for a suite of tools that will support all of this

• So, what is the Tribal Lands Collaboratory?

  • indigenous knowledge web:

    • center = sprituality core

    • then stories, then ceremonies, then environmental knowledge, then (at the very edge) are Western science tools

  • encourage collection of data using standard protocols, even if won’t be shared with everyone

  • tribal observation data + analysis and visualization via GIS, statistical tools, models → workflow (captured explicitly) → narrative of findings (e.g. through Esri story maps)

  • strategy (designed to be able to scale)

    • tribal lands collaboratory

      • phenology collab (now)

        • one site, one year (now)

          • different methods below this

        • many sites, one year (later)

      • water quality collab (later)

      • coastal green infrastructure collab (later)

• open science framework (OSF)

  • multiple collaborators can edit the wiki

  • can attach files

PRESENTATION AVAILABLE AT: https://prezi.com/15iwgoxuel-5/2015-12-11-tlc-v01-demo/