Dear Colleagues, Please consider participating in our survey to help assess the perception of long-term data in marine conservation among biologists working in the United States. We hope to include participants with diverse career experience and institutional affiliation. The survey will be published in an upcoming edited book on marine conservation paleobiology that will be part of Springers Topics in Geobiology series. Our study focuses on finding ways to integrate long-term data from paleoecology with other ecological sources in marine conservation.
In our survey, we address questions such as the following: how is long-term defined within the marine conservation community?; what types of long-term records do marine conservation biologists use?; and what are the perceived shortcomings of long-term data? Answering these types of questions will be essential: 1) to assess the conception of long-term data within marine conservation biology; 2) to identify types of long-term data that marine conservation biologists need; and, 3) to recommend corresponding outreach and research directions in conservation paleobiology that are likely to improve the integration of paleoecological and long-term ecological data into ongoing conservation and restoration practices. The survey, which has been reviewed by the Cornell University Institutional Review Board, will be open until Sunday, January 31, 2016. It will take 2530 minutes to complete and progress is saved, so respondents can leave the survey page and pick up where they left off at a later time if needed. Respondents who submit their answers will receive a link at which the survey results will be made public once the study is finished. To access the survey, please use the following link: http://longtermdataperspectives.priweb.org. You will be prompted to provide the following username and password to access the website: Username: LTDsurvey Password: ocean2015 If you have any questions, please contact Jansen Smith ([email protected]). Thank you for participating in our survey! Jansen Smith Stephen Durham Gregory Dietl
