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NASA’s carbon monitoring system (CMS) and arctic-boreal vulnerability experiment (ABoVE) social network and community of practice
- Source :
- Environmental Research Letters
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- IOP Publishing, 2020.
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Abstract
- The NASA Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) and Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) have been planned and funded by the NASA Earth Science Division. Both programs have a focus on engaging stakeholders and developing science useful for decision making. The resulting programs have funded significant scientific output and advancements in understanding how satellite remote sensing observations can be used to not just study how the Earth is changing, but also create data products that are of high utility to stakeholders and decisions makers. In this paper we focus on documenting thematic diversity of research themes and methods used, and how the CMS and ABoVE themes are related. We do this through developing a Correlated Topic Model on the 521 papers produced by the two programs and plotting the results in a network diagram. Through analysis of the themes in these papers, we document the relationships between researchers and institutions participating in CMS and ABoVE programs and the benefits from sustained engagement with stakeholders due to recurring funding. We note an absence of policy engagement in the papers and conclude that funded researchers need to be more ambitious and explicit in drawing the connection between their research and carbon policy implications in order to meet the stated goals of the CMS and ABoVE programs.
- Subjects :
- Topic model
GE
Knowledge management
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Social network
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Vulnerability
Monitoring system
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Community of practice
Arctic
Order (exchange)
Political science
business
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
General Environmental Science
Diversity (politics)
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17489326
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environmental Research Letters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....167a314d0db2ed47658fd47a40b091cd