Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Research at Coweeta LTER

This poster explains some of the graduate research efforts at the Coweeta LTER that attempt to integrate social and ecological elements into research. Though there have been broader site-wide attempts to do integrative work, some individual graduate students' projects are situated explicitly at this divide. Our topics include local environmental policy; residents' valuation and use of streams; bird watching community group participation in scientific research; and the development of a regionally specific, land owner-friendly stream evaluation tool. Our research highlights the importance, challenges, and potential of place-based interdisciplinary research.