Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON)

Coral Reef Ecological Observatory Network

(CREON)

 

Summary of Meeting: Next Steps

v.  17 June 2005

 

The purpose of this document is to summarize the next steps in building a global lake observatory. The ideas contained herein reflect discussions from a meeting held at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego campus, 7 – 9 March 2005. This meeting, Building capacity and linking infrastructure

in the lake and coral reef scientific communities, was sponsored by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the National Science Foundation.

 

In this document we identify next steps, without yet identifying who will implement them, when they will be completed, or a sense of relative priority among the tasks. A similar plan is being developed by the Coral Reef group. For completeness, we have attached an agenda of the meeting, a final list of attendees, and the original conceptual design document that was prepared for the meeting.  A survey of the data collected by the lakes is available at www.lakemetabolism.org (specific) as well as a summary of those data (see slides by Vladimir Veytser).

 

Over the course of the next few months, the Lakes Steering Committee, comprising Tim Kratz, David Hamilton, Fang-Pang Lin, and Peter Arzberger, will be responsible for creating a timeline for the next year of this activity.

 

Next Steps:

(Note that Who, When and Relative Priority steps will be developed)

(the letters after the title refer to the level in Figure 1.)

 

Science (A)

  • Define an initial set of scientific objectives to be carried out with the system
  • Write joint scientific paper with a subset of the GLEON group.

 

Deployment of sensors (D)

  • Identify lakes ready to deploy sensors AND have system to automate upload of data from sensor to database
    • Send spreadsheet out about deployment of sensors, data flow to lab, flow into database, registration of database (11 March 2005 – Tim Kratz; deadline for response 2 April 2005)
  • Determine path forward from Excel to Access to other relational database (if needed)

 

Network Interface to Data (C)

  • Harden registration page
  • Develop use cases to query interface
  • Develop / improve interface page

 

Services on Data (B)

  • Harden visualization services
  • Harden lake metabolism service

 

Modeling (B)

  • Integrate one dimensional hydrodynamic modeling with lake metabolism
    • Produce visualizations
  • Compare three-dimensional circulation models, parallelize code to improve run times

 

Policy (C)

  • Develop principle underlying assess and use policy
  • Develop access policy for network (local, internal to network, community)
    • Start with “non-controversial data”

 

Network Level Activities (C)

  • Create name of group
  • Create mail-server
  • Create web presence
  • Determine location / time of next meeting
    • Note: Very likely we’ll meet in Australia March/April 2006
  • Develop prospectus for groups to use to seek funding
    • In particular, look at funding for meetings
  • Identify other barriers to working as a group:
    • Travel? Data Access/Sharing Policies? Funding for resources?
  • Construct (collectively) basic principles / approaches / framework for using/sharing distributed resources (management)
  • Create a design document for architecture (and what others need to do to join)

 

Lakes Selected as Possible Candidates for GLEON following Meeting

 

Name of Lake

Field Station/
Institution

Location

Contributor

Participants

Trout Bog Lake

Trout Lake Station,
U Wisconsin, NTL-LTER

USA

Kratz, Tim

Meinke, Tim  MORE

Yuan Yang Lake

Academia Sinica; NCHC

Taiwan

Chou, Hsiu-Mei

Lin, Fang-Pang MORE

Lake Rotoiti

Center for Biodiversity and Ecology Research

New Zealand

Hamilton, David

Ryan, Eloise

Lake Soyang

Center for Lake Management Research
Kangwon National University

Korea

Kim, Bomchul

Esthwaite Water

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

United Kingdom

Rouen, Martin

Lake Barragorang

Centre for Water Research
U. Western Australia

Australia

Dallimore, Chris

Dorset 'A' Lakes

Dorset Environmental
Science Centre, Inland Lakes, Ontario Ministry of Environment

Canada

Peterson, Andrew

Lake Paajarvi

Lammi Field Station,
U. Helsinki

Finland

Jarvinen, Marko

Lake Kinneret

Kinneret Limnological Laboratory,
Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research Ltd,

Israel

Nishri, Ami

Salingar, Yigal

Taihu Lake

Nanjing Institute of Geography & LimnologyNanjing

China

Qin, Boqiang

 

 

Presentations are available at http://lakemetabolism.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Layers Useful for Implementation Considerations

This layered approach may be helpful in

 

Figure 1

 

Site Based Model

At each site, there are a variety of issues and challenges to be addressed. We consider these sites (administrative domains) to be controlled by individuals at the sites.

Figure 2 would represent a box in Level D (like NTL) in Figure 1.

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                                Figure 2                     

 

 

 

 

Conceptual Layers from Sensor to Database

Figure 3: Component layers of a wireless sensor network. In some cases multiple layers may be encompassed in a single device, for example sensor, field computation and communication may be packaged as in a wireless data logger with an integral temperature sensor.  (Porter et al. Biosciences 2005 Vol 55 No 7, pp561-572)

 

 

Appendices:

 

  1. Agenda for Meeting
  2. Final List of Attendees
  3. Design Considerations: Towards a Global Lake Observatory Research and Education Network, v10 January 2005

 

Additional material on lakemeteabolism.org website includes

  1. Overview of responses
  2. Summary of responses to survey on data collected on lakes

 

Material Develop After meeting

  1. Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) map