Award Abstract # 1920938
RII Track-2 FEC: Resilience Informatics for the Convergence of Critical Capacities to Address Regional-scale Environmental Change
NSF Org: |
OIA
OIA-Office of Integrative Activities
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Recipient: |
BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
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Initial Amendment Date: |
August 9, 2019 |
Latest Amendment Date: |
August 9, 2022 |
Award Number: |
1920938 |
Award Instrument: |
Cooperative Agreement |
Program Manager: |
Benjamin J. McCall
bjmccall@nsf.gov
(703)292-7916
OIA
OIA-Office of Integrative Activities
O/D
Office Of The Director
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Start Date: |
August 1, 2019 |
End Date: |
July 31, 2024 (Estimated) |
Total Intended Award Amount: |
$3,953,265.00 |
Total Awarded Amount to Date: |
$3,953,265.00 |
Funds Obligated to Date: |
FY 2019 = $1,964,386.00
FY 2021 = $996,501.00
FY 2022 = $992,378.00
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History of Investigator: |
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Craig
Allen
(Principal Investigator)
allencr@unl.edu
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Theresa
Floyd
(Co-Principal Investigator)
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Brian
Chaffin
(Co-Principal Investigator)
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Simanti
Banerjee
(Co-Principal Investigator)
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Dirac
Twidwell
(Co-Principal Investigator)
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Dirac
Twidwell
(Former Principal Investigator)
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Craig
Allen
(Former Co-Principal Investigator)
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Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2200 VINE ST
LINCOLN
NE
US
68503-2427
(402)472-3171
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Sponsor Congressional District: |
01
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Primary Place of Performance: |
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
279 PLSH
Lincoln
NE
US
68583-0915
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Primary Place of Performance Congressional District: |
01
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Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): |
HTQ6K6NJFHA6
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Parent UEI: |
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NSF Program(s): |
EPSCoR RII Track-2 FEC, EPSCoR Research Infrastructure
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Primary Program Source: |
01002223DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
01001920DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
01002122DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
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Program Reference Code(s): |
9150
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Program Element Code(s): |
194Y00,
721700
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Award Agency Code: |
4900
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Fund Agency Code: |
4900
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Assistance Listing Number(s): |
47.083
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ABSTRACT
Major advancements in technology, data computation power, and theory are converging in the ecological profession at a time of great uncertainty for humanity. Many ecosystems are experiencing rapid and sudden collapses and transitioning to less productive ecosystem states, threatening fundamental ecosystem services upon which humanity relies. Food and water security, rural economies, water rights, wildfire disaster avoidance, even funding for public school education are all threatened as a result of simple transitions in vegetation occurring at a rate and geographic scope that is unmatched during the lives of previous generations. This project will build critical expertise and leverage technology in new ways to confront the grand challenge of management to avoid large, regional-scale transitions in vegetation. Resilience theory and the formal study of regime shifts in nature have been foundational science pursuits for nearly 50 years in of ecology, and technology and computational power are now at a point that allows launch of the next level of analysis in the study and application of resilience science. This project will develop resilience informatics screening tools for more advanced and earlier detection of vegetation transitions. The project will create critical capacities to explore this new and transformative informatics approach into social governance structures and thus improve options for avoiding critical transitions in social-ecological systems.
Tracking and predicting large-scale ecosystem transitions are of national and international importance and key to securing the future livelihoods, personal security, food security, and water security of diverse populations in a changing world. This research converges faculty from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Montana with a shared vision - to build sufficient capacity to address the grand challenge of avoiding undesirable transitions in ecological systems that are so severe that their consequences go beyond the traditions of any one individual investigator's disciplinary expertise. We propose a spatial informatics approach that links recent advances in resilience theory with a state-of-the-art rangeland landcover and analysis dataset, and a powerful cloud-computing platform, as screening tools for more advanced and earlier detection of regime shifts across ecosystems. At the same time, we propose basic social science research to better understand the barriers and opportunities to applying innovative technological approaches to build resilience across working lands. We will leverage emerging, big-data approaches to social and behavioral data analysis to pioneer an approach for rapid and strategic identification of individuals and social groups with increased willingness and capacity to address future regime shifts and other environmental challenges of national priority. Our collaboration of social and biophysical science faculty will engage with collaborative landscape governance processes in Nebraska and Montana, include groups of resource users and managers, and translate this knowledge into proactive strategies for addressing various scales of ecological change before it occurs, through adaptation and resilience-building processes. This collaboration is built on five key convergence points which establish: a platform for sustaining research productivity through recruitment and training of early-career faculty; a nationally-recognized resilience-science education program; and greater access to cyberinfrastructure among public and private stakeholders.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH
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Naugle, David E and Allred, Brady W and Jones, Matthew O and Twidwell, Dirac D and Maestas, Jeremy
"Coproducing Science to Inform Working Lands: The Next Frontier in Nature Conservation"
BioScience
, v.70
, 2019
10.1093/biosci/biz144
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Roberts, Caleb P. and Donovan, Victoria M. and Nodskov, Sarah M. and Keele, Emma B. and Allen, Craig R. and Wedin, David A. and Twidwell, Dirac
"Fire legacies, heterogeneity, and the importance of mixed-severity fire in ponderosa pine savannas"
Forest Ecology and Management
, v.459
, 2020
10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117853
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Uden, Daniel R. and Twidwell, Dirac and Allen, Craig R. and Jones, Matthew O. and Naugle, David E. and Maestas, Jeremy D. and Allred, Brady W.
"Spatial Imaging and Screening for Regime Shifts"
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
, v.7
, 2019
10.3389/fevo.2019.00407
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Donovan, Victoria M. and Wonkka, Carissa L. and Wedin, David A. and Twidwell, Dirac
"Land-Use Type as a Driver of Large Wildfire Occurrence in the U.S. Great Plains"
Remote Sensing
, v.12
, 2020
10.3390/rs12111869
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Scholtz, Rheinhardt and Prentice, Jayson and Tang, Yao and Twidwell, Dirac
"Improving on MODIS MCD64A1 Burned Area Estimates in Grassland Systems: A Case Study in Kansas Flint Hills Tall Grass Prairie"
Remote Sensing
, v.12
, 2020
10.3390/rs12132168
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Jones, Matthew O. and Naugle, David E. and Twidwell, Dirac and Uden, Daniel R. and Maestas, Jeremy D. and Allred, Brady W.
"Beyond Inventories: Emergence of a New Era in Rangeland Monitoring"
Rangeland Ecology & Management
, 2020
10.1016/j.rama.2020.06.009
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Starns, Heath D. and Fuhlendorf, Samuel D. and Elmore, Robert D. and Twidwell, Dirac and Thacker, Eric T. and Hovick, Torre J. and Luttbeg, Barney and Davis, Mark A.
"Effects of pyric herbivory on prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus spp) habitat"
PLOS ONE
, v.15
, 2020
10.1371/journal.pone.0234983
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Roberts, Caleb P. and Uden, Daniel R. and Allen, Craig R. and Angeler, David G. and Powell, Larkin A. and Allred, Brady W. and Jones, Matthew O. and Maestas, Jeremy D. and Twidwell, Dirac
"Tracking spatial regimes in animal communities: Implications for resilience-based management"
Ecological Indicators
, v.136
, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108567
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Jones, Kristal and Abrams, Jesse and Belote, R Travis and Beltrán, Bray J and Brandt, Jodi and Carter, Neil and Castro, Antonio J and Chaffin, Brian C and Metcalf, Alexander L and Roesch-McNally, Gabrielle and Wallen, Kenneth E and Williamson, Matthew A
"The American West as a social-ecological region: drivers, dynamics and implications for nested social-ecological systems"
Environmental Research Letters
, v.14
, 2019
10.1088/1748-9326/ab4562
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Angeler, David G. and Chaffin, Brian C. and Sundstrom, Shana M. and Garmestani, Ahjond and Pope, Kevin L. and Uden, Daniel R. and Twidwell, Dirac and Allen, Craig R.
"Coerced regimes: management challenges in the Anthropocene"
Ecology and Society
, v.25
, 2020
10.5751/ES-11286-250104
Citation Details
Vallury, Sechindra and Leonard, Bryan
"Canals, climate, and corruption: The provisioning of public infrastructure under uncertainty"
Economics & Politics
, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.12196
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Fogarty, Dillon T. and Roberts, Caleb P. and Uden, Daniel R. and Donovan, Victoria M. and Allen, Craig R. and Naugle, David E. and Jones, Matthew O. and Allred, Brady W. and Twidwell, Dirac
"Woody Plant Encroachment and the Sustainability of Priority Conservation Areas"
Sustainability
, v.12
, 2020
https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208321
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Angeler, D. G. and Allen, C. R. and Carnaval, A.
"Adaptive capacity in ecosystems"
Advances in ecological research
, v.60
, 2020
10.1016/bs.aecr.2019.02.001
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Vallury, Sechindra and Smith, Ada P. and Chaffin, Brian C. and Nesbitt, Holly K. and Lohani, Sapana and Gulab, Sabrina and Banerjee, Simanti and Floyd, Theresa M. and Metcalf, Alexander L. and Metcalf, Elizabeth C. and Twidwell, Dirac and Uden, Daniel R.
"Adaptive capacity beyond the household: a systematic review of empirical social-ecological research"
Environmental Research Letters
, v.17
, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac68fb
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Donovan, Victoria M. and Twidwell, Dirac and Uden, Daniel R. and Tadesse, Tsegaye and Wardlow, Brian D. and Bielski, Christine H. and Jones, Matthew O. and Allred, Brady W. and Naugle, David E. and Allen, Craig R.
"Resilience to Large, ?Catastrophic? Wildfires in North America's Grassland Biome"
Earth's Future
, v.8
, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001487
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Hogan, Katharine F. and Fogarty, Dillon T. and Ellerman, Hugh and Fill, Christopher T. and Morales, D. and Seguin, Baxter and Uden, Daniel R. and Allen, Craig R.
"Rangelands in a fragmented grass-dominated landscape are vulnerable to tree invasion from roadsides"
Biological Invasions
, v.24
, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-022-02869-5
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Keele, Emma C. and Donovan, Victoria M. and Roberts, Caleb P. and Nodskov, Sarah M. and Wonkka, Carissa L. and Allen, Craig R. and Powell, Larkin A. and Wedin, David A. and Angeler, David G. and Twidwell, Dirac
"Relationships between Wildfire Burn Severity, Cavity-Nesting Bird Assemblages, and Habitat in an Eastern Ponderosa Pine Forest"
The American Midland Naturalist
, v.181
, 2019
10.1674/0003-0031-181.1.1
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Chaffin, Brian C. and Floyd, Theresa M. and Albro, Sandra L. and Zia, Asim
"Leadership in informal stormwater governance networks"
PLOS ONE
, v.14
, 2019
10.1371/journal.pone.0222434
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Donovan, Victoria and Roberts, Caleb and Wonkka, Carissa and Wedin, David and Twidwell, Dirac
"Ponderosa Pine Regeneration, Wildland Fuels Management, and Habitat Conservation: Identifying Trade-Offs Following Wildfire"
Forests
, v.10
, 2019
10.3390/f10030286
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Garmestani, Ahjond and Allen, Craig R and Angeler, David G and Gunderson, Lance and Ruhl, J B
"Multiscale adaptive management of social?ecological systems"
BioScience
, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad096
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Roberts, Caleb P. and Uden, Daniel R. and Cady, Samantha M. and Allred, Brady and Fuhlendorf, Samuel and Jones, Matthew O. and Maestas, Jeremy D. and Naugle, David and Olsen, Andrew C. and Smith, Joseph and Tack, Jason and Twidwell, Dirac
"Tracking spatial regimes as an early warning for a species of conservation concern"
Ecological Applications
, v.32
, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2480
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Hogan, Katharine F. and Fowler, Julie A. and Barnes, Conor D. and Ludwig, Alison K. and Cristiano, Dominic J. and Morales, Daniel and Quiñones, Rubi and Twidwell, Dirac and Dauer, Jenny M.
"New multimedia resources for ecological resilience education in modern university classrooms"
Ecosphere
, v.13
, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4245
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Vallury, Sechindra and Shin, Hoon C. and Janssen, Marco A. and Meinzen-Dick, Ruth and Kandikuppa, Sandeep and Rao, Kaushalendra R. and Chaturvedi, Rahul
"Assessing the institutional foundations of adaptive water governance in South India"
Ecology and Society
, v.27
, 2022
https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12957-270118
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Arterburn, Jack R. and Twidwell, Dirac and Wonkka, Carissa L. and Schacht, Walter H. and Wedin, David A.
"Restoring Fire-Grazer Interactions to Pursue Heterogeneity in Sandhills Prairie"
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
, v.7
, 2019
10.3389/fevo.2019.00365
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Starns, H. D. and Wonkka, C. L. and Lodge, A. G. and Twidwell, D. and Treadwell, M. L. and Kavanagh, K. L. and Dickinson, M. B. and Tolleson, D. R. and Rogers, W. E.
"Effects of Fire Intensity and Abiotic Factors on Persistence of an Encroaching Woody Species"
Proceedings of the Albuquerque Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference
, 2019
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Garmestani, Ahjond and Twidwell, Dirac and Angeler, David G and Sundstrom, Shana and Barichievy, Chris and Chaffin, Brian C and Eason, Tarsha and Graham, Nick and Granholm, Dean and Gunderson, Lance and Knutson, Melinda and Nash, Kirsty L and Nelson, R Jo
"Panarchy: opportunities and challenges for ecosystem management"
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
, v.18
, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2264
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Donovan, Victoria M. and Wonkka, Carissa L. and Wedin, David A. and and Twidwell, Dirac.
"Land-Use Type as a Driver of Large Wildfire Occurrence in the U.S. Great Plains"
Remote sensing
, v.12
, 2020
https://doi.org/
Citation Details
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