Transcript Governance-Why Bother?

Governance
Why Bother?
How do we fulfill our vision
• Vision:
– Lakes around the world
• Equipped with sensors
• Sending data to each other and the world
– Researchers
• Sharing expertise, people, resources
• Conducting joint experiments or synthesis
• Training the next generation of researchers and
public
• Understanding and predicting response of lake
ecosystems to natural processes and human
activities at regional, continental, and global scales
Looking Forward
• SIL 2007
– Special Session – organized by GLEON
– What we might expect to:
• What is GLEON?
• Who is involved?
• What does it take to be involved?
– Is this a private club?
• Who makes decisions?
• RCN and other community activities
– What is the relationship between RCN and GLEON?
• Building a Global Network
– How do we coordinate / communication?
– How do we keep moving forward?
– How do find resources to make the next steps?
Rationale for (Some) Structure
To address these questions:
• What is GLEON?
– This defines what we do.
• Who is part of GLEON?
– This allows us to present ourselves in public.
• What are the principles and practices for
decision making?
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How do we fulfill our mission?
Who decides what we do?
Who is a member?
How does one become a member?
What is expected of a member?
Where and when do we meet?
Bluntly: What is our framework for
marketing and recruiting?
• Articulate responsibility of being a member.
• State how one becomes a member
– State what it takes to be a member
• Provide sense of shared ownership of
process
• Obtain funds
What Principles Should Guide GLEON?
Some might be:
• Open acknowledgement and attribution of the contributions of
members
• Sharing of data, software, resources
• Decision process open, decisions by consensus whenever
possible
• Not-legally binding – IP (intellectual property) addressed at local
level [we don’t want to spend time with lawyers, not because they
are bad, but it will derail our focus from doing science]
• Participants fund their own participation (decentralized funding,
grass-roots approach) [However, having a structure should assist
each site in gaining funding.]
• Organization support participants to gain funding
• Organizational Framework Principle – enough structure to make
decisions; but flexible to address unforeseen is
Mission
• Do we have a mission?
• Should we try to craft one at this meeting?
• Options:
– Build a scalable, persistent network of lake ecology
observatories
– Understand key limnological processes such as the effects of
climate and landuse change on lake function, the role of episodic
events such as typhoons in resetting lake dynamics, and carbon
cycling within lakes
– Gain understanding of role of lakes in large (global, continental)
socio-environmental processes
– Build community of researchers to understand role of lakes in
socio-environmental processes
– GLEON aims to understand and predict response of lake
ecosystems to natural processes and human activities at
regional, continental, and global scales.
• Add “through information technology and in situ sensing” (bringing
together IT and Lake scientists)
Mission
– Build a scalable, persistent network of lake ecology observatories
– Understand key limnological processes such as the effects of climate
and landuse change on lake function, the role of episodic events such as
typhoons in resetting lake dynamics, and carbon cycling within lakes
– Gain understanding of role of lakes in large (global, continental) socioenvironmental processes
– Build community of researchers to understand role of lakes in socioenvironmental processes
– GLEON aims to understand and predict response of lake ecosystems to
natural processes and human activities at regional, continental, and
global scales.
• Add “through information technology and in situ sensing” (bringing together IT
and Lake scientists)
• Some comments from Discussion on 3 March, for consideration
– Add aspect of “capacity building / human development / training /
graduate students / next generation / education
– Add services to society / humanity
– Consider addition (or leaving opening to) groundwater, rivers, streams.
Key words/concepts
Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network
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Lakes or more
IT/CI / Database / Data resource
Scientific Understanding …
Network/federation / collaboratory
Training (students / outreach)
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Social Utility / Relevance
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Ecological
Long-term, high-frequency observation
Community
Persistence
Multiple scales
Automatic
Sensors
In situ
(Role and response) / Sentinel
Future conduct of research
Insight / foresight
What we will measure or tackle: e.g. Lake metabolism, global change
Key words/concepts
Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network
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Lakes or more – (allow open to other activities in the future)
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Comment: Lakes and reservoirs; rivers/ streams / groundwater / terrestrial
Lake ecosystem
IT/CI / Database / Data resource
Scientific Understanding …
Network/federation / collaboratory
Training (students / outreach)
Link
Social Utility / Relevance
International ..
Ecological
Long-term, high-frequency observation
Community
Persistence
Multiple scales: local to global (lake and catchment, lake and atmosphere)
Automatic
Sensors
In situ
(Role and response) / Sentinel
Future conduct of research
Insight / foresight
What we will measure or tackle: e.g. Lake metabolism, global change
Mission statement activity
• Circulate list of words to all (present and
not present) (Marilyn)
• Optional (anyone) send draft mission to
Marilyn [email protected]
– BY Saturday 10 March 2007
• Steering Committee and other volunteers
will review, synthesize, circulate
Other Things to Do
• SIL
– Saturday before
– Hotel rooms, meeting rooms, agenda
• Meeting beyond SIL
– Jan – March 2008
– How it relates to RCN
• Means of communications
– Wiki; e-mail;
– GLEON … mailing list established by NCHC
• [email protected]
– Web site update
Membership
• Rule of thumb for involvement: Participants will
actively contribute to GLEON’s mission, either
data, resources, labor, models, modeling
– More than coming to meetings – necessary, but not
sufficient
• Process to become member should educate
new member on practicies and principles and
ensure a sense of quality and contribution to
GLEON
Steering Structure
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Composition in a steering structure:
– Representative rather that having all parties involve (having all parties does not
scale, and is logistic nightmare with schedules; also not nimble)
– Reflect geographical diversity
– Reflect mixture of expertise and members: GLEON nodes; modelers,
infrastructure developers, users of data
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Rotation:
– Members of Steering Group should rotate (although membership can be
renewable
– Membership on Steering Group is a service
– Rotation allows for graceful transition
– Terms should be stated up front
– Criteria for membership?
– Vote for new slots by all members!
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Responsibilities
– Membership in GLEON: Decide to accept or not membership applications. This
would provide a transparent process, and ensure some level of quality on
applications
– Workshop Locations:
– Obtain funding for GLEON
– PR, including Web site, brochures, sessions at meetings (this could be delegated)
PRAGMA Experience
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PREAMBLE
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Paragraph 1 DEFINITIONS …………………………………
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Paragraph 2 UNDERSTANDINGS ……………………………. 6
Paragraph 3 OBJECTIVES ………………………………7
Paragraph 4 THE STEERING COMMITTEE ……… …. 9
Paragraph 5 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ………… 13
Paragraph 6 FINANCE AND HOSTING …………
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Paragraph 7 ADDING, WITHDRAWAL, OR REMOVING
PARTICIPANTS …… …………….15
• Paragraph 8 OTHER MATTERS …………… ………………18
Annex
• Annex I
LISTING OF FOUNDING INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERS
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• Annex II
LISTING OF INITIAL MEMBERS OF STEERING
COMMITTEE……………………
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• Annex III
LIST OF CURRENT MEMBERS AND
PARNTERSHIPS…………………………… .21
• Annex IV
PARTICIPATION PROPOSITIONS …………… 23
• Annex V
PROCEDURE FOR SELECTION OF PRAGMA
MEETING HOST SITE ……………………… 28
• Annex VI
GUIDELINES TO SUPPORT WORKSHOPS OR
CONFERENCES …………………………
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• Annex VII
GUIDELINES TO SUPPORT PROPOSALS
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• Annex VIII APPLICATION PROCEDURE FOR INDUSTRY
AFFILIATES ………………………………… 33
• Annex IX
WORKING GROUPS AND LEADS
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Recommendation for this meeting
• Review Mission [Breakout groups]
• Discuss what a member should do; how
one becomes a member.
• Identify (principles for creating) initial
members
• Give homework assignments to a
subgroup
Some Proposed Membership
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Attend meetings
“Work” between meetings
Share data, expertise, models
Collaborate
Follow-principles
Initial Membership
• Start by declaring something like: All
individuals who have been in at least 2 (or
1) GLEON meetings and/or part of RCN
are “provisionally in”
– Should create draft mission, set of
responsibilities, … and get commitment (in
form of e-mail)!
Final Recommendation
• Identify writing team to draft proposal, which includes:
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Mission statement
Responsibility of members
Process to become a member
Steering Mechanism (likely representative) and Responsibilities
of Steering “group”
– Initial membership
– Benefits of membership
• Identify group to act on behalf of GLEON (provisional
steering committee)
– Regional Diversity
– Time to Commit
• Have draft completed by June, circulate
– “Vote” on this at SIL