Thursday, February 22, 2018 || 2:00 pm || Mitchell Center, 107 Norman Smith Hall
Whether it is local, “wicked” problems that are complex, challenging, with multiple feedbacks, high uncertainty, and ambiguous solutions, or NSF’s Grand Societal Challenges, we are increasingly needing to take multi-, inter-, and trans-disciplinary team science approaches to understand and potentially solve these problems. However, such cross-disciplinary research efforts have struggled for both taskwork and teamwork reasons. An emerging science of team science is producing greater understanding of the team science phenomenon and suggestions for overcoming implementation obstacles. We have been building professional development training to build competencies among coastal and marine STEM doctoral students to be more effective in team science. This talk will provide an overview of the emerging science of team science and the strategies for improving the effectiveness of multi-, inter-, and trans-disciplinary initiatives.
** This event is free and open to all.
** Refreshments will be provided.
About Dr. Hartley:
Dr. Hartley’s current interests are in governance networks, their structure and function, and the application of governance networks in coastal and marine resource management (e.g., fisheries and ecosystem-based management), climate adaptation and resilience, and collaborative, multi-stakeholder decision-making. Further, he is interested in the broader applications of social science to improve collaboration, governance, management and policy, team science, stakeholder engagement, and collaborative, trans-disciplinary research. He employs theoretical and analytical frameworks from public policy, political science, and communication science.
Virginia Sea Grant (VASG)
Dr. Hartley also serves as Director of Virginia Sea Grant (VASG). VASG research, educational, and outreach activities promoting sustainability and resilience of coastal and marine resources and the communities that depend upon them. This Grant is part a larger national network of Sea Grant programs housed in 33 colleges and universities around the country. The National Sea Grant College Program is a state-federal, university-based partnership program, launched by Congress in 1966, with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Virginia Sea Grant is a seven-university partnership, headquartered at VIMS with William & Mary, and composed of the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, and George Mason, James Madison, Old Dominion, and Virginia Commonwealth Universities. We advance our mission through an integrated organizational network that promotes coordination and collaboration across institutional, disciplinary, and functional boundaries among staff and partners. Our strengths are in education and workforce development, graduate and post-graduate fellowships and professional development, and extension and outreach services. We work on fisheries and aquaculture, coastal community resilience, literacy, seafood safety, and sustainable community development issues. We tackle challenging coastal and marine resource problems in Virginia, the region, nation and internationally by employing cutting-edge natural, social and economic sciences, as well as legal and policy analysis.