We are pleased to welcome the following members who joined our working group this quarter:

Sacha Siani, Indiana University
Sara Rzayeva, Gulf University for Science and Technology

We are pleased to share the announcement for the special issue of MDPI’s Land launched by the GLP working group on co-production on sustainable land systems on "The Transformative Potential of Transdisciplinary Research in Land Systems Science".
The idea for this special issue emerged from the working group sessions we had at the 4th GLP Open Science Meeting. We hope that you are interested in this call and will share your experiences.

The special issue is guest edited by the co-coordinators and members of the Working Group on Co-production of Sustainable Land Systems: Narcisa Pricope and Isabelle Providoli (co-coordinators), Albrecht Ehrensperger, Jean-Christophe Castella and Flurina Schneider.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 September 2021

Woodward, K.D.; Pricope, N.G.; Stevens, F.R.; Gaughan, A.E.; Kolarik, N.E.; Drake, M.D.; Salerno, J.; Cassidy, L.; Hartter, J.; Bailey, K.M.; Luwaya, H.M. Modeling Community-Scale Natural Resource Use in aTransboundary Southern African Landscape: IntegratingRemote Sensing and Participatory Mapping. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 631.

WG co-coordinator Narcisa Pricope along with colleagues demonstrate how co-produced research over several years relying on household interviews and participatory mapping can be integrated with remote sensing data to build machine learning models that spatially predict grazing, wood collection, and building pole collection activities.This study provides insights into modeling resource use activity when leveraging both remotely sensed data and proxies for human habitation in heterogeneous, spectrally mixed rural land areas.

13-17 September 2021
Online

The Call for Contributions for ITD 21 is now published. Abstract submission is possible until 18 April 2021.

The conference provides a platform for engagement, discussion, and action that links transdisciplinary research, (un)learning, and practice. Real-world labs, living labs, social innovations, Global South & Global North encounters, and transition experiments, serve as inspirations for design and implementation of this event.  As a virtual forum, the ITD Conference 2021 will bring together individuals, communities, and institutions from across the globe. The goal is to advance transdisciplinary concepts and methodologies while strengthening their potential for addressing societal challenges by connecting educators, researchers, practitioners, industry and business representatives, funding agencies, decision makers and students across sectors and disciplines.

Learn how research can contribute concretely to solving complex societal problems! A tutored run of the free Massive Open Online Course on Transdisciplinary Research started 22 February 2021, but you can still join anytime. Organised by Td-net, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences.

Second Tuesdays, 12:00-1:00 pm US Eastern Time via Zoom

Today’s research teams span many boundaries, including disciplines, social cultures, gender, race, sectors, methodologies, organizations, and more. Success is hard work! This 5-part series will introduce 8 tools that can help, plus general principles you can apply across cases. Each webinar will include two different presenters who will each describe a tool and give us some hands-on practice with it. Participants will share their experiences and questions.

Organized by Bethany Laursen, Laursen Evaluation & Design, LLC & Michigan State.

Hosted by INTEREACH: The Interdisciplinary Integration Research Careers Hub