Grand challenges in Earth science: research toward a sustainable environment

Acocella, Valerio

doi:10.3389/feart.2015.00068

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“…Human activities are now a dominant geological Earth and Space Science 10.1002/2015EA000155 force on the Earth; therefore, public communication and societal engagement is an important aspect of geoscience research [Stewart, 2016;Buytaert et al, 2014]. GPF improves research transparency, which provides valuable information for decision makers and build public confidence in supporting geosciences [Acocella, 2015].…”

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Open science in practice: Learning integrated modeling of coupled surface‐subsurface flow processes from scratch

Duffy

Rousseau

et al. 2016

Earth and Space Science

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Integrated modeling of coupled surface-subsurface flow and ensuing role in diverse Earth system processes is of current research interest to characterize nonlinear rainfall-runoff response and also to understand land surface energy balances, biogeochemical processes, geomorphological dynamics, etc. A growing number of complex models have been developed for water-related research, and many of these are made available to the Earth science community. However, relatively few resources have been made accessible to the potentially large group of Earth science and engineering users. New users have to invest an extraordinary effort to study the models. To provide a stimulating experience focusing on the learning curve of integrated modeling of coupled surface-subsurface flow, we describe use cases of an open source model, the Penn State Integrated Hydrologic Model, PIHM. New users were guided through data processing and model application by reproducing a numerical benchmark problem and a real-world watershed simulation. Specifically, we document the PIHM application and its computational workflow to enable intuitive understanding of coupled surface-subsurface flow processes. In addition, we describe the user experience as important evidence of the significance of reusability. The interaction shows that documentation of data, software, and computational workflow in research papers is a promising method to foster open scientific collaboration and reuse. This study demonstrates how open science practice in research papers would promote the utility of open source software. Addressing such open science practice in publications would promote the utility of journal papers. Further, popularization of such practice will require coordination among research communities, funding agencies, and journals.

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Open science in practice: Learning integrated modeling of coupled surface‐subsurface flow processes from scratch

Duffy

Rousseau

et al. 2016

Earth and Space Science

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“…These meetings are typically about more than scientific content and facilitate the identification of research gaps and opportunities (Kochetkov et al., 2020; Oester et al., 2017). In some respects, coming together also helps us decide how we feel about the global grand challenges that we face environmentally and as a species (Acocella, 2015). We build collective strength and cohesion.…”

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Online conferences for better learning

Lortie

2020

Ecology and Evolution

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A crisis is never welcomed, and we must now rally to innovate how we do science. We need to work harder to make conferences better and not only address the immediate challenges but tackle pre-existing limitations associated with conferences and meetings. Conferences are a profoundly useful mechanism to enable scientific progress as a community. These conventions provide the opportunity to network, collaborate, communicate, connect early-career researchers with new (and established) collaborators, and most importantly co-learn and build community. Ecologists and evolutionary biologists are scientists, citizens, educators, and a collective that can affect social good. Hence, conferences allow us to convene and share and learn in different and extended ways (Cooke et al., 2017). These meetings are typically about more than scientific content and facilitate the identification of research gaps and opportunities (Kochetkov et al., 2020; Oester et al., 2017). In some respects, coming together also helps us decide how we feel about the global grand challenges that we face environmentally and as a species (Acocella, 2015). We build collective strength and cohesion. Conferences in ecology and evolution are also incredibly frequent. A brief search on sites that compile conference listings for ecology and evolution including the Nature Ecology and Evolution website, relevant society sites, and The World Academy of Science, Engineering, and Technology (filtered using the key term "ecology") suggest that there were approximately 400 meetings scheduled for the calendar year of 2020 (Lortie, 2020c). However, as citizens, we have a moral responsibility to flatten the curve of a pandemic through reduced in-person interactions, smaller conventions only for critical needs, and much less travel to mitigate spread and reduce risks for everyone (Khoo & Lantos, 2020; Verma et al., 2020). More broadly, we can reconsider the carbon costs and other impacts including accessibility and the equity of costs to convene exclusively through faceto-face meetings (Julsrud et al., 2014; Neugebauer et al., 2020). In doing so, we have an opportunity to promote equity, diversity, and inclusivity through different planning, by reducing some of the financial costs, and by sharing our insights to wider, more varied com

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“…An environmental management challenge is a problem presented in scientific literature or society that, when redefined and reviewed using these principles, can result in a solution to the original problem. Typically, a challenge is ethical, legal, social, or derived from implications associated with research and evidence of change or anthropogenic stress (Acocella 2015). Grand challenges for the environment in particular are ones that necessitate connections between disciplines and require evidence from potential studies that examine different components of the environment such as climate, ecology, species biology, or research from any number of levels (Macpherson and Segarra 2017).…”

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Simple principles for engineering reproducible solutions to environmental management challenges.

Lortie

Owen

2018

Preprint

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An environmental management challenge is an opportunity to use fundamental science to inform evidence-based decisions for environmental stakeholders and conservationists. Contemporary science is embracing open science and increasingly conscious of reproduciblility. Synergistically, applying these two paradigms in concert advances our capacity to move beyond context dependency and singlular thinking to reverse engineer solutions from published scientific evidence associated with one challenge to many. Herein, we provide a short list of principles that can guide those that seek solutions to address environmental management through primary scientific literature.

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Grand challenges in Earth science: research toward a sustainable environment

Cited by 20 publications

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Open science in practice: Learning integrated modeling of coupled surface‐subsurface flow processes from scratch

Open science in practice: Learning integrated modeling of coupled surface‐subsurface flow processes from scratch

Online conferences for better learning

Simple principles for engineering reproducible solutions to environmental management challenges.

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