FS 3.192: Generating and integrating interdisciplinary data

Integrated understanding of the Earth’s crucial (yet complex) mountain regions is essential for more effective science-policy dialogue and guiding decision making across multiple scales, from local to global. However, because scientific investigations in mountains are still often conducted within narrow disciplinary silos through short-term research projects, comprehensive long-term data spanning multiple components of mountain socio-ecological systems (SES) frequently remain. In particular, the practical integration of socio-economic and bio-physical data typically remains lacking, leaving key interactions and feedback mechanisms poorly understood and/or represented in predictive models. This session therefore encourages contributions from across the world’s mountain regions involving interdisciplinary, long-term approaches to the collection, assembly, and/or integration of mountain data and information (including in situ, remotely sensed, Indigenous knowledge etc.). Presentations applying or building upon the concepts of “Essential Mountain Variables” and networks of “Mountain Observatories” are especially welcomed, as are modelling studies that capitalise on existing diverse observations to inform decision-making processes, for instance via the delivery of operational services, are likewise sought. Open Science principles should be followed where applicable. The session represents a contribution to GEO Mountains. During the associated workshop, we anticipate a rich discussion on opportunities associated with working across traditional disciplinary and methodological boundaries.