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2002 Summer Institute
Week 1

May 13 | May 14| May 15 | May 16 | May 17



Monday, May 13

7:30     Melissa Strickland

Escort Summer Institute participants to Woodburn Hall. Meet in the main lobby of Campus View housing.

8:00     Teena Freeman, administrative items -- Woodburn 218

8:30 - 10:00    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:

National Research Council. 1998. Human Dimensions of Global Change. Ch. 7 in Global Environmental Change: Pathways for the Next Decade (prepublication manuscript). Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. (Core)

Gibson, Clark, E. Ostrom, and T. K. Ahn. 2000. The Concept of Scale and the Human Dimensions of Global Change: A Survey. Ecological Economics 32(2):217-239.

Kempton, Willett. 1991. Lay Perspectives on Global Climate Change. Global Environmental Change (June):183–208.

9:30 - 10:00     Jon Unruh, Participant Introductions -- Woodburn 218

10:00 - 10:20    Break

10:20 - 12:30    Elinor Ostrom, T.K. Ahn, Abby York -- Woodburn 218

"A Common-Pool Resource Experiment"

Readings:

Gardner, Roy, M. R. Moore, and J. M. Walker. 1997. Governing a Groundwater Commons: A Strategic and Laboratory Analysis of Western Water Law. Economic Inquiry 35(April):218-234.

Ostrom, Elinor, and J. M. Walker. 1997. Neither Markets nor States: Linking Transformation Processes in Collective Action Arenas. In Perspectives on Public Choice: A Handbook, ed. Dennis C. Mueller, 35-72 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schmitt, Pamela, K. Swope, and J. M. Walker. 2000. Collective Action with Incomplete Commitment: Experimental Evidence. Southern Economic Journal 66(4):829-854.

12:30 - 2:00    Lunch

2:00 - 4:30    Elinor Ostrom, T.K. Ahn, Abby York -- Woodburn 218

"Discussion of Common-Pool Resource Experiment"

4:30 - 5:30    Bruce Boucek

Walking Tour of ACT lab (Student Building - SB331), UITS lab (SB221), Franklin Hall (vending), CIPEC, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, SPEA.

 
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Tuesday, May 14

8:30 - 10:00    Emilio Moran -- Woodburn 218

"Brazilian Research Discussion"

Readings:

Brondizio, Eduardo, and A. 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, E. Brondizio, D. Nelson, E. Moran, A. Siqueira, and C. 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 E. 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    Glen Green -- Woodburn Hall 218

Lecture: "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), Thematic Mapper (TM), and Enhanced Thematic Mapper + (ETM+) instruments will be described.
Readings:

Green, Glen. 1999. Introduction to Remote Sensing Notes. (Core)

Green, Glen, and C. Schweik. 1998. The Landsat System: A Primer.

Beck, S. 1997. Yottabytes Are a Lotta Bytes. New York Times.

NASA. 2001. Landsat 7 Science Data Users Handbook. NASA web site: http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/IAS/handbook/handbook_toc.html.

NASA. 2000. Landsat 7 Gateway. NASA web site: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov.

11:30 - 12:30    Participant Presentations (2) -- Woodburn Hall 218

12:30 - 2:00    Lunch

2:00 - 2:45    Glen Green -- Student Building 221

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, and several important data sources can now be searched via the Internet. For example, the EROS Data Center (EDC) of the USGS has developed "Earth Explorer," found on the World Wide Web, which allows the user to search for available satellite images at specific locations, evaluate quality, and view color composites of the images on line.
Readings:

USGS. 2001. Earth Explorer web site. http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/EarthExplorer/

Velleman, P. 1998. DataDesk Quickstart Guide. Ithaca, N.Y.: Data Description.

3:00 - 5:00    Glen Green -- Student Building 221
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.

5:30-ish Pizza Party at CIPEC


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Wednesday, May 15

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   J. C. Randolph -- Woodburn 218

"The Global Carbon Cycle"
Readings:

Houghton, R. A., and D. L. Skole. 1993. Carbon. Ch. 23 in The Earth As Transformed by Human Action, ed. B. L. Turner II, W. L. Clark, R. K. Kates, J. F. Richards, J. T. Mathews, and W. B. Meyer, 393-408. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Core)

Aber, J. A., and J. M. Mellilo. 1991. Terrestrial Ecosystems and Global Biogeochemistry. Ch. 24 in Terrestrial Ecosystems. Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders College Publishing.

Barnes, B. V., D. R. Zak, S. R. Denton, and S. H. Spurr. 1998. Carbon Balance of Trees and Ecosystems. Ch. 18 in Forest Ecology, 4th ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

11:30 - 12:30    Participant Presentations (2) -- Woodburn 218

12:30 - 2:00    Lunch

2:00 - 2:45    Glen Green -- Student Building 221

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 nine variables and about 40 million cases (nearly 300 MB of data).
Readings:

Green, Glen. 1998. Landsat Formats Notes.

Jensen, John R. 2000. Remote Sensing of the Environment: An Earth Resource Perspective. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall.

Ch. 10: Remote Sensing of Vegetation

Ch. 11: Remote Sensing of Water

Ch. 13: Remote Sensing of Soils, Minerals, and Geomorphology

3:00 - 5:00    Glen Green -- Student Building 221

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 three 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.

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Thursday, May 16

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 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. Forest Ecology, 4th ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons. (Core)

Ch. 1: Concepts of Forest Ecology

Ch. 2: Landscape Ecosystems at Multiple Spatial Scales

IFRI Forest Form and Guidelines. (Core)

IFRI Forest Plot Form and Guidelines. (Core)

10:00 - 10:20    Break

10:20 - 11:50    Participant Presentations (3) -- Woodburn 218

11:50 - 12:20    Mr. Eren Zink

"Funding Opportunities"
Mr. Zink is the Project Secretary for the Social Sciences Programme of the International Foundation for Science (IFS), Sweden, URL: http://www.ifs.se

12:20    Group Picture of Institute Participants Showalter Fountain

12:30 - 2:00    Lunch

2:00 - 2:45     Darla Munroe -- Student Building 221

GIS Lecture #1: "Introduction to GIS"
This session introduces basic GIS concepts to bring everyone to a common foundation. Specific elements of this session include map projections and coordinate systems, data structures (raster, vector), GIS software and hardware, and sources of spatially referenced data.
Readings:

Ormsby, T., E. Napoleon, R. Burker, C. Groessl, and L. Feaster 2001. Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop. Redlands, Calif.: ESRI Press. (Core)

Ch. 1: Introducing GIS.

Ch. 2: Introducing ArcGIS Desktop.

3:00 - 5:00     Darla Munroe -- Student Building 221
GIS Lab #1: "Introduction to GIS"

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Friday, May 17

8:30 - 10:00    Leah VanWey -- Woodburn 218

"Theories of Demography"
This session will introduce participants to the history of world population and to selected demographic theories of population change. We will examine past changes in the size, distribution, and composition of the human population at the global level, and then current population characteristics at the global and regional levels. We will consider theories of fertility and mortality decline in the context of understanding demographic transition theory. We will then focus more attention on recent theories of migration, because of the close relationship between migration and environmental change.
Readings:

Kirk, Dudley. 1996. Demographic Transition Theory. Population Studies 50:361-87.

Massey, Douglas S., Joaquín Arango, Graeme Hugo, Ali Kouaouci, Adela Pellegrino, and J. Edward Taylor. 1993. Theories of International Migration: A Review and Appraisal. Population and Development Review 19:431-66.

Mason, K. O. 1997. Explaining Fertility Transitions. Demography 34:443-54.

10:00 - 10:20   Break

10:20 - 12:30    Participant Presentations (4) -- Woodburn 218

12:30 - 2:00   Lunch

2:00 - 2:45    Darla Munroe -- Student Building 221

GIS Lecture #2: "GIS Database Construction"
This session discusses methods of getting your data into a GIS. In particular, data formats, data import/export, secondary data sources, and pre-processing of primary data are discussed. The goal of this session is to provide participants with the information necessary to evaluate what data are appropriate for spatial representation and the sources of error involved with GIS database construction. Participants are encouraged to discuss specific elements of their research to assess the utility of a spatial component to their work (if lacking).
Readings:

DeMers, M. N. 1997. Cartographic and GIS Data Structures. Ch. 4 in Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems. New York: John Wiley & Sons. (Core)

Worboys, M. F. 1997. Fundamental Database Concepts. Ch. 2 in GIS: A Computing Perspective. Bristol, Pa.: Taylor and Francis.

3:00 - 5:00    Darla Munroe -- Student Building 221
GIS Lab #2: "GIS Database Construction"


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