2000 Summer Institute
Week 1

June 5 | June 6 | June 7 | June 8 | June 9

Monday, June 5

8:30 - 9:15    Emilio Moran    Woodburn 218

"Global Change Issues, Research Agenda, and Scaling Issues"

CIPEC's research strategy and methods will be introduced as part of the research agenda on the Human Dimensions of Global Change (HDGC). The lecture will discuss scaling issues in the study of global change, the integration of ideas, the interaction of institutions, population, socioeconomic processes, and environment.

Readings:

Gibson, Clark, Elinor Ostrom, and T. K. Ahn. In press. The Concept of Scale and the Human Dimensions of Global Change. Ecological Economics.

Kempton, Willett. 1991. Lay Perspectives on Global Climate Change. Global Environmental Change, June, 183-209.

National Research Council, 1998. Human Dimensions of Global Change. CH. 7 in Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade. (Prepublication manuscript.) National Academy Press. Washington, DC. (Core)

9:15 - 10:00    Elinor Ostrom    Woodburn 218

"Institutional Analysis of Global Change"

An examination of existing global change models and the need to include institutions as mediating factors between "driving forces" and "environmental" change.

Readings:

Ostrom, Elinor. 1998. The International Forestry Resources and Institutions Research Program: A Methodology for Relating Human Incentives and Actions on Forest Cover and Biodiversity. Dallmeier, F., and J. A. Comiskey, Eds. Forest Biodiversity in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean: Research and Monitoring, Man and the Biosphere Series. Vol. 21. Paris: UNESCO; New York: Parthenon, 1-28. (Core)

Ostrom, Elinor, Joanna Burger, Christopher Field, Richard B. Norgaard, and David Policansky. 1999. Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges. Science, vol. 284, April 9, pp. 278-82. (Core)

10:00 - 10:20    Break

10:20 - 12:00    Participant Introductions    Woodburn 218

12:00 - 12:30    One Participant Presentation    Woodburn 218

12:30 - 2:00    Lunch

2:00 - 3:30    Glen Green    Wylie Hall 115

"Introduction to Remote Sensing"

This lecture will cover the basic physics of light used in remote sensing and briefly outline use of the Landsat satellite system. The radiation regimes of the Sun and the Earth will be explored and the Landsat MultiSpectral Scanner (MSS) and Thematic Mapper (TM) Instruments will be described.

Readings:

Green, Glen. 1999. Introduction to Remote Sensing Notes.
Green, Glen, and Charlie Schweik. 1998. The Landsat System: A Primer.

Beck, S. 1997. Yottabytes are a lotta bytes. New York Times.

3:45 - 5:00    Tour of ACT, CIPEC, SPEA lab, and Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis.

Tuesday, June 6

8:30 - 10:00    Tom Evans    Woodburn 218

"Indiana Research Discussion"

One of the study areas in which CIPEC is examining questions of deforestation and reforestation is Monroe County, Indiana (where Bloomington is located). Specific research questions include: What are the social and spatial factors contributing to forest cover regrowth? What are the major actors affecting land cover change? What techniques can be used to model and predict areas of future land cover change? This session will address the above questions for the Monroe County study area and discuss research methods and data requirements being applied to answer these questions.

Readings:

Koontz, T., L. Carlson, and C. Schweik. 1997. The Role of Institutions in Shaping Land Use: An Exploratory Study of southern Indiana Non-Industrial Private Forests. CIPEC Working Paper.

McCracken, Stephen, Carolina A.M. Safar, and Glen Green. 1997. Deforestation and Forest Regrowth in Indiana, 1860-1990: A Socio-Demographic Perspective. CIPEC Working Paper.

10:00 - 10:20    Break

10:20 - 11:30    Clark Gibson    Woodburn 218

"Why Institutions Matter"

11:30 - 12:30    Two Participant Presentations    Woodburn 218

12:30 - 2:00    Lunch

2:00 - 2:45    Glen Green    Wylie Hall 115

Lecture: "Spatial and Temporal Satellite Image Sampling"

Remotely sensed satellite images can provide both spatial and temporal information at multiple scales for assessing and monitoring global environmental change. In just the last few years several important data sources can now be searched via the Internet. For example, the Geographic Land Information System (GLIS), found on the World Wide Web, allows the user to search for available satellite images at specific locations, evaluate quality and image price and to view color composites of the image on-line.

Readings:

NASA. 1998. Landsat Program Chronology, NASA web site: http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/sge/landsat/lpchron.html.

Velleman, P. 1998. DataDesk Quickstart Guide, Data Description Inc., Ithaca, NY.

3:00 - 5:00    Glen Green     ACT

Lab: "Spatial and Temporal Satellite Image Sampling"

This lab presents a methodology to set up a robust sampling strategy of Landsat satellite image data on the PC platform.

Wednesday, June 7

8:30 - 10:00     Eduardo Brondizio    Woodburn 218

"Brazilian Research Discussion"

Readings:

Brondizio, Eduardo, and Andrea Siqueira. 1998. From Extractivists to Forest Farmers: Changing Concepts of Caboclo Agroforestry in the Amazon Estuary. Research in Economic Anthropology 18:233–279.

McCracken, Stephen, Eduardo Brondizio, Donald Nelson, Emilio Moran, Andrea Siqueira, and Carlos Rodriguez-Pedraza. 1999. Remote Sensing and GIS at Farm Property Level: Demography and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 65(11):1311–1320.

Moran, Emilio, and Eduardo Brondizio. 1998. Land-Use Change after Deforestation in Amazonia. In People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science, ed. Emilio Moran et al., 94–120. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

10:00 - 10:20    Break

10:20 - 11:30     J. C. Randolph    Woodburn 218

"Landscape Ecology, Global Change and the Carbon Cycle"

This session will discuss the general processes of global climate change. The first topics will discuss the causes and nature of climate change, such as sources and sinks of greenhouse gases, radiative processes of greenhouse gases, and how changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere affect weather and climate. A second set of topics will discuss climate modeling and General Circulation Models (GCMs), climate data, and evidence of climate change. The third set of topics will explore possible impacts of global climate change on various landscapes, and the interactions and feedbacks between climate change and ecological processes, particularly at the landscape level.

Readings:

Aber, John D. and J.M. Melillo. 1991. Chapter 24: Terrestrial Ecosystems and Global Biogeochemistry. In Terrestrial Ecosystems. Saunders Publishing. (Core)

Reesburgh, W.S. 1997. Global Cycles of Biogeochemically Important Elements. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 78:260-267.

Vitousek, P. J., J. Aber, R. W. Howarth, G. E. Likens, P. A. Matson, D. W. Schindler, W. H. Schlesinger, and G. D. Tilman. 1997. Human Alteration of the Global Nitrogen Cycle: Causes and Consequences. Issues in Ecology 1:1-15.

11:30 - 12:30    Two Participant Presentations    Woodburn 218

12:30 - 2:00    Lunch

2:00 - 2:45    Glen Green    Wylie Hall 115

Lecture: "Exploratory Image Analysis"

Satellite images can provide essential information for identifying and monitoring important global change phenomena, but they can also overwhelm the data analyst because of their inherent data volume. For example, a single Landsat Thematic Mapper scene contains the same information content as a spreadsheet with 9 variables and about 40 million cases (nearly 300 MB of data).

Readings:

Belward, A. 1991. Spectral characteristics of vegetation, soil, and water, in the visible, near-infrared and middle-infrared wavelengths. In Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems for Resource Management in Developing Countries (Belward and Valenzuela, eds.). ECSC, EEC, EAEC, Brussels and Luxembourg, pp. 31-53.

Myers, V. 1983. Remote sensing applications in agriculture. In Manual of Remote Sensing-2nd Ed., (Colwell, Editor-in-Chief), ASPRS, pp. 2111-2155.

Green, Glen. 1998. Landsat Formats Notes.

3:00 - 5:00     Glen Green    ACT

Lab: "Exploratory Image Analysis"

This lab presents several simple techniques for examining different aspects of the satellite image "data cube". These include the use of single band, gray-tone images, color composites made of 3 individual bands, reflectance spectra, histograms, scatter-plots and unsupervised classification techniques. These methods provide the user with several rapid means to explore the information content of satellite images.

Thursday, June 8

8:30 - 10:00    J. C. Randolph    Woodburn 218

"Forest Ecology"

This session will provide an overview of important topics in forest ecology with an emphasis upon techniques used to inventory and analyze various aspects of forests. Topics will include the theoretical basis for the most important measurements and will move to specific examples of how to conduct forest inventories. Sampling techniques for soils and vegetation will be discussed. The most widely used measurements of individual trees and of forest stands will be presented in preparation for a field exercise.

Readings:

Barnes, B.V., D.R. Zak, S.R. Denton, and S.H. Spurr. 1998. Chapter 1: Concepts in Forest Ecology. In Forest Ecology (4th edition). New York: John Wiley & Sons. (Core)

Randolph, J.C. 1997. Introductory chapters in Forest Ecology and Management Laboratory and Field Manual. School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Reesburgh, W.S. 1997. Global Cycles of Biogeochemically Important Elements. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 78:260-267.

IFRI Forest Form and Guidelines. (Core)

IFRI Forest Plot Form and Guidelines. (Core)

10:00 - 10:20    Break

10:20 - 11:30    J. C. Randolph    Woodburn 218

"Forest Mensuration"

Continuation of "Forest Ecology," this morning's lecture.

11:30 - 12:30    Two Participant Presentations    Woodburn 218

12:30 - 2:00    Lunch

2:00 - 5:00     Catherine Tucker, Glen Green, and Tom Evans    Woodburn 218 and Outside

"Preparatory Field Work: Collecting Forest Data – Plot Forms and Training Sample Forms" and "Introduction to GPS"

A brief description of the CIPEC forest plot form, tools, data collected, etc., as well as a description of the CIPEC training sample form. Following will be a short discussion of GPS - how and why, and the segue into its relevance to using GIS and remote sensing to assess forest cover and conditions. The second half of this session we will be outside to put our training into practice using GPS equipment to do training samples and conducting a CIPEC forest plot.

Readings:

Avery and Berlin. 1992. GIS and Land Use and Land Cover Mapping. (Core)

Anderson, J., et al. 1976. A Land Use and Land Cover Classification System for Use With Remote Sensor Data. Geological Survey Professional Paper 964, USGS. (Core)

IFRI Forest Plot Form and Guidelines

Friday, June 9

8:30 - 5:00    Catherine Tucker, Coordinator    Griffy Lake

"Field Trip to Griffy Lake"

We put our training into practice with a trip to a forested area north of Bloomington. There we will divide into teams and take measurements of the landscape and forest using the CIPEC plot form and the CIPEC training sample form. Wear clothes appropriate to hard work in a forested environment (including comfortable shoes!).

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Last Updated: April 04, 2004
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