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Team Science at ESIIL

Welcome to the ESIIL team science repository, part of the Environmental Data Science Innovation and Impact Lab (ESIIL). This repository serves as the central hub for our team science research at ESIIL as well as resources for our different working group cohorts.

Advancing Innovation, Discovery and Collaboration of EDS & Synthesis Teams

Our team science work examines how interdisciplinary environmental data science and synthesis teams form, collaborate, and produce innovative science. To date, our efforts have been focused on three different projects.

Across a meta-analysis of team science literature, an observational study of ESIIL working groups, and cross-synthesis work with NSF synthesis centers, our projects investigate the social, organizational, and methodological conditions that enable effective collaboration across disciplines, institutions, career stages, and ways of knowing.

Synthesis and environmental data science increasingly depend on complex teams working together to integrate increasingly complex data and expertise, yet the processes that support successful collaboration are often not directly studied (e.g., live teams) or treated as secondary to tracking scientific outputs. By identifying patterns, barriers, and best practices across synthesis teams, our projects aim to improve how collaborative research is designed, supported, facilitated, and evaluated.

Collaborators

  • Kayleigh Ward, Team Science Postdoctoral Associate
  • John Parker, ESIIL Team Science Lead
  • Susan Sullivan, Community Care Lead
  • Jennifer Balch, ESIIL Director

Contributing to our Projects and SciTS Resources, Trainings & Explainers

At this time we only welcome contributions from ESIIL affiliated staff and working groups. Please contact Kayleigh Ward directly. If you are just exploring team science at ESIIL we also recommend checking out our all-star working groups.