{"id":25061,"date":"2019-08-16T07:58:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T11:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencescosmaincms.cm.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=25061"},"modified":"2020-02-13T11:45:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T16:45:09","slug":"conference-promotes-cross-discipline-approach-to-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/conference-promotes-cross-discipline-approach-to-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Promotes Cross-Discipline Approach To Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-25062 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Jacopo-Baggio-IV-1-of-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Jacopo-Baggio-IV-1-of-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Jacopo-Baggio-IV-1-of-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Jacopo-Baggio-IV-1-of-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Jacopo-Baggio-IV-1-of-1-299x199.jpg 299w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/08\/Jacopo-Baggio-IV-1-of-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Big problems require big answers.<\/p>\n<p>But often scientists are narrowly focusing on their own fields of research, or, as Jacopo Baggio, Ph.D., puts it, \u201cHunting for vertical solutions to horizontal problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baggio, an assistant professor in the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs, <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabilitycommunity.nature.com\/channels\/1385-behind-the-paper\/posts\/48832-improving-network-approaches-to-explain-complex-social-ecological-interdependencies\">recently collaborated<\/a> with \u00adanother researcher in Sweden, \u00d6rjan Bodin, to host an international workshop on how to assess social-ecological systems from a structural perspective. The workshop drew scientists across multiple disciplines and around the world to develop a framework for creating practical responses to global problems, and led to two high-profile papers published in <em>Nature Sustainability<\/em> and <em>Environmental Research Letters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlending together all these disciplines transcends individual talents and synthesizes knowledge in novel ways,\u201d Baggio explained.<\/p>\n<p>Baggio points to the Indian River Lagoon east of Orlando as an example. The interconnectedness of Florida\u2019s waterways and aquifer means changes in Orlando or other areas connected ecologically to the Indian River Lagoon can impact the economic and environmental future of Brevard County miles away.\u00a0 It takes biologists, chemists, ecologists, social scientists, economists and psychologists working together with political and social scientists to find solutions to this problem, Baggio said.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists are also dependent on a &#8220;boots on the ground&#8221; perspective. A commercial fisher, for example, might not use classic research methods like mechanistic models to measure their daily catch. But their anecdotal evidence is still a valuable tool for gaining scientific understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis type of knowledge is a crucial piece of a bigger web,\u201d Baggio said.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest obstacles researchers face in an undertaking this big are scale and funding. Grants rarely exceed four years and this can create issues when assessing if policy changes impacted an ecosystem. To add to this, working on a global and regional level requires transcending cultural differences, language barriers and distance. Still, Baggio is encouraged. He\u2019s seen the eagerness of researchers ready to contribute what time and resources they have.<\/p>\n<p>Baggio ascribes to the philosophies of Karl Popper, a 20<sup>th<\/sup> century scientist who analyzed and categorized the differences between scientific theories and metaphysical and mythological claims.<\/p>\n<p>Baggio\u2019s takeaway from Popper: \u201cMore people are realizing we are not students of single disciplines. Problems transcend issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big problems require big answers. But often scientists are narrowly focusing on their own fields of research, or, as Jacopo Baggio, Ph.D., puts it, \u201cHunting for vertical solutions to horizontal problems.\u201d Baggio, an assistant professor in the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs, recently collaborated with \u00adanother researcher in Sweden, \u00d6rjan Bodin, to host [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":25062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[39,5377,16,28,5944],"tags":[6008,6106,5970,5971],"class_list":["post-25061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news","category-research","category-political-science-departments","category-top-news","category-ucf-coastal","tag-and-international-affairs","tag-dr-jacopo-baggio","tag-school-of-politics","tag-security"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Conference Promotes Cross-Discipline Approach To Research - College of Sciences News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/conference-promotes-cross-discipline-approach-to-research\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Conference Promotes Cross-Discipline Approach To Research - College of Sciences News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Big problems require big answers. 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