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Aaron M. Ellison
- Current research topics:
- Food webs in dynamic habitats
- Spatial
dimension of species interactions
- Nutrient limitation and stoichiometry of carnivorous plants
- Frank
Morton Jones and carnivorous plant research in the early 20th century
- Foundation
species in forests
- Arthropods
of the Harvard Forest
- Statistics
for ecologists
- Cyberinfrastructure
tools for ecological synthesis -
I
have a long-standing interest in the free and open exchange of data among scientists
in general and ecologists in particular. This interest dates to my serving on
the Ecological Society of America's
Committee on Communication in the Electronic Age (1994-1995). One product of this
committee was an approach to controlled archiving of ecological data (Helly
et al. 2002). This approach is incorporated in the design of Ecological
Archives, the on-line data archive journal of the Society, which Bob
Peet and I co-founded in 1997, and for which I served as the first Editor
(1998-2001).
Currently, I am involved in a collaborative project with Emery
Boose, Julian
Hadley, and David
Foster at the Harvard Forest, and Lee
Osterweil and Lori
Clarke, computer scientists at the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst, in which we are developing automated tools for
generating process metadata - precise descriptions of analytical processes used
to create scientific datasets. The first product of this collaboration is an Analytic
Web for analyzing and synthesizing eddy covariance data used to measure carbon
flux. Two papers describing the analytic web have been published (Osterweil
et al. 2005, Ellison
et al. 2006). This project is supported by ITR award 02-05575 from the U.S.
National Science Foundation.
I am also pursuing these interests through the Initiative
for Innovative Computing at Harvard. - Full
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