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The goal of this Pursuit is to bring together a diverse team of collaborators to examine how soil health can act as a social-ecological feedback to encourage soil enhancing practices through a transdisciplinary integration of biophysical, climatic and social science data at multiple scales.
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Our team is made up of scientists and policymakers from University institutions in Oregon, Iowa, Nebraska, Iowa, Washington – as well as staff from the USDA and the NRCS.
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Our workshops are run out of the Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) – a NSF funded effort thru the University of Maryland.
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We use R, python, and Solr to organize, structure, and model data, and then use ESRI’s StoryMaps technology to describe and visualize outcomes.
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The SOIL SES Search Engine is an Apache Solr server that runs on Ubuntu using Jetty. We use Solr to meta tag and dynamically present web-accessible data for use in model construction.
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SOIL SES uses the Dublin Core metadata standard, which consists of fifteen core elements to describe a dataset. Dublin Core is one of the most basic metadata standards, and is used extensively by libraries and other multi-disciplinary groups that have a wide diversity of data types.
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Our modeling efforts use Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approaches to understand latent constructs in relationship to soil health and climate resilience.
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