INS 4: Building Belonging in Ecology: Networks as Connectors; Networks as Disruptors

Session Organizer(s)

• Marty Downs

  LTER Network Office
  Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Moderator(s)

• Marty Downs

  LTER Network Office
  Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Volunteer(s)

• Jennifer Perez

At their best, research and education networks can offer pathways into science for those who have historically been excluded from the field. They can make the customs and culture of a field visible and navigable for newcomers. They support large-scale networking and have the critical mass needed to make substantial changes to practice. But the same qualities that make them effective can present obstacles to developing a sense of belonging. Inertia develops around established practices. What feels like a close community to insiders, can look like an impassable obstacle to the uninitiated. 
Bring your success stories and your cautionary tales. What has worked and what lessons have you learned around the role of networks in building belonging in ecology?

Presentations:

• ON DEMAND

  Belonging in a network inspires research about how students sense of belonging impacts science learning in field courses
  

  Presenting Author: Kari O'Connell – Oregon State University
• ON DEMAND

  Data + Community = Action: Making the invisible, visible
  

  Presenting Author: Erin Robinson – Metadata Game Changers LLC
• ON DEMAND

  Global change research networks: Building communities without borders
  

  Presenting Author: Lindsey Rustad – USDA Forest Service
• ON DEMAND

  How “growing up” in collaborative science networks shapes your views on how science can be done
  

  Presenting Author: Lauren L. Sullivan – University of Missouri
• ON DEMAND

  Networks as a community of practice for distributed science professionals
  

  Presenting Author: Cora Baird – University of Virginia
• ON DEMAND

  The great paradox: Belonging in contradicting networks
  

  Presenting Author: Rashidah Farid, Ph.D. – Dept. Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Tuskegee University
• ON DEMAND

  The Virtual Field: From inertia to inclusion
  

  Presenting Author: Claudia Luke – Sonoma State University
• ON DEMAND

  What I’ve learned in 10 years of mentoring a new generation of ecologists
  

  Presenting Author: Frederick Abbott – Ecological Society of America