Articles | Volume 16, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-4661-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-4661-2019
Ideas and perspectives
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09 Dec 2019
Ideas and perspectives |  | 09 Dec 2019

Ideas and perspectives: Proposed best practices for collaboration at cross-disciplinary observatories

Jason Philip Kaye, Susan L. Brantley, Jennifer Zan Williams, and the SSHCZO team

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Interdisciplinary teams can only capitalize on innovative ideas if members work well together through collegial and efficient use of field sites, instrumentation, samples, data, and model code. Thus, biogeoscience teams may benefit from developing a set of best practices for collaboration. We present one such example from a the Susquehanna Shale Hills critical zone observatory. Many of the themes from our example are universal, and they offer insights useful to other biogeoscience teams.
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