Water and Integrated Cropping Systems
Date of this Version
10-24-2023
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Citation
October 24th, 2023. 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
The Graduate Hotel, 141 N. 9th St., Lincoln, NE
DOI:10.32873/unl.dc.oth.017
Abstract
The theme of this year’s WICS Conference is Moving Beyond the Ordinary with the goal of addressing Team Science. Our vision is to provide opportunities and connection points among IANR faculty to leverage their individual knowledge, skills, abilities, and passions. A tendency for land grant institutions is often to deliver information biased from a single, primary discipline and perspective. This is known as comfort zone mega bias and has been defined as “the tendency to drag a problem into our comfort zone and solve the problem that we know how to solve, rather than solving the problem that needs to be solved” (Spretzler et al., 2016). The aim of the WICS Hub is to overcome this tendency by leveraging synergies across disciplines and mission areas to solve many of the grand challenges we face. We hope that you can take advantage of the different disciplinary and mission area perspectives from today’s sessions. Our purpose is to support collaborative relationships and foster engagement to address complex issues that are important to Nebraskans by empowering communication among research, teaching, and extension experts in agricultural production and natural resource systems. Outcomes for the 2023 WICS Conference are three-fold:
• Continuing conversations across IANR’s three mission areas to move beyond theordinary.
• Providing examples and perspectives that can be modified and used across disciplinesand mission areas.
• Building a practical framework for team-science and collaboration within the WICS Hub.
Included in
Agriculture Commons, Natural Resources Management and Policy Commons, Water Resource Management Commons