Documents — 2006 LTER All Scientist Meeting Reports

Report on Children’s Book Series workshop, 2006 Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) All Scientists Meeting, Estes Park, Co. Organizers: Monica Elser, Diane McKnight, Shelly Sommers

Workshop report on A multi-scale comparison of hydrologic and biogeochemical impacts of insect and disease outbreaks with forest harvesting, 2006 Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) All Scientists Meeting, Estes Park, Co., Saturday, 23 September 2006. Workshop Organizer(s): Brian Kloeppel (Coweeta)

Workshop Report Workshop report on Losses of foundation species and the consequences for ecosystem structure and function, 2006 Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) All Scientists Meeting, Estes Park, Co., Saturday, 23 September 2006. Workshop Organizers: Brian Kloeppel (Coweeta) and Aaron Ellison (Harvard Forest)

Working Group Report on “Bacterial diversity and dynamics: cross-site contrasts, comparisons and synthesis”, 2006 Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) All Scientists Meeting, Estes Park, Colorado, September 23, 2006 (Sessions 9-12). Working Group Organizers: Hugh Ducklow, Tim Hollibaugh, John Hobbie and George Kling.

Report on the Workshop “Powerful new molecular tools in soil microbial ecology: insights and utility for long-term studies”, 2006 Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) All Scientists Meeting, Estes Park, Colorado, September 20-23, 2006. Workshop organizers: Richard Boone, University of Alaska Fairbanks; David Myrold and Stephanie Boyle, Oregon State University; Mary Beth Leigh, University of Alaska Fairbanks; and Christopher Schadt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Environmental justice (EJ) is the principle that all people have the right to equal protection from environmental laws and the right to participate in environmental decision making. A major component of EJ is the study of environmental equity, the analysis of the spatial distribution of environmental hazards (disamenities) in

(1) What have LTER observations told us about the climate sensitivity of ecosystem processes at different time scales?; (2) What have LTER experiments told us about the climate sensitivity of ecosystem processes at different time scales?; (3) What progress has been made in bringing LTER observations and experiments to bear on improving the ability to predict the response of ecosystems to scenarios of future climate change?

Status and trends of ecosystem services: A cross-site comparison of LTER sites. A workshop summary (Disturbance and ecosystem services) and proposal for a post-ASM meeting Terry Chapin, Steve Carpenter, and Ann Kinzig

Biogeochemical cross-site intercomparison using the DayCent-chem model Working Group Organizer: Jill Baron Date of Working Group: Sept 22

Working Group 7 report by the Lotic Intersite Nitrogen EXperiment (LINX) project workshop addressing aspects of coordination and data analysis. Organizer: P. J. Mulholland

Workshop report on Chlorophyll fluorescence monitoring at selected LTER Network sites. Organizers: Richard L. Boyce (NWT, HBR) & Herman Sievering (NWT)

Report from LTER Information Managers Meeting on Information management issues and the LTER Trends project: A drawing board for making cross-site comparisons feasible. Organizers: Christine Laney – JRN, Ken Ramsey – JRN, Mark Servilla – LNO

Report of a Workshop on Linking science with arts and humanities and at LTER sites at the LTER All-Scientists Meeting, Estes Park, CO, Sept. 21-23, 2006. Conveners: Fred Swanson (AND) and Tim Kratz (NTL)

Report from the Cross-Site Synthesis of ANPP Grasslands Research – Challenges in Data Integration, ASM 2006, Working Group 8, September 23, 2006.

LTER Information Managers Meeting: Design of Query Interface to LTER Data Catalog: Controlled Vocabularies Working Group. Wed. Sept. 20, 2006. ASM, Estes Park, CO.

Report of Sept. 22, 2006 meeting at ASM, Estes Park, CO. Organizers: John Porter (VCR), Peter Arzberger, Barbara Benson (NTL), Paul Hanson (NTL), Chau Chin Lin (INT), Timothy Kratz (NTL) Key Participants: Scott Collins

The general goal of the workshop was to complete and extend our cross-site synthetic research begun in previous meetings supported by this x-site program. At the end of the workshop we decided to plan to host two additional workshops in order to (1) finish a manuscript based on our previous analysis of the ecological consequences of shrub expansion in grasslands and (2) to strategize regarding additional data collection needs to strengthen our synthetic database focused on LTER and non-LTER sites across North America.

2006 All Scientists Meeting Synthetic Paleoecology Workshop Report – submitted by James Rusak

Submitted by Theresa Valentine.

Education Section Working Group Ancillary Day ASM Meeting Sept 2006

ASM working group summary.

Report of the LTER-ASM Working Group – Toward a synthesis of LTER studies of small mammal populations and communities in arid and semiarid ecosystems, 23 Sep 2006

Report from LTER ASM Workshop entitled “Status of Emerging Environmental Observatories and Opportunities for LTER Collaboration”–September 23, 2006–Organizer(s): William Michener (LNO), Todd Crowl – LUQ

Working Group (session 6 & 7, group 1) Report from the LTER 2006 ASM. Working Group Title: The Metabolic Theory of Ecology and Stream Ecosystems. Organizers: Jennifer Follstad Shah, Chelsea Crenshaw, Alex Huryn.

Working Group (Session 5, group 10) Report for LTER 2006 ASM. Working Group Title: Effect of Nitrogen-Fixing Plants on Diversity and Species Interactions. Organizers: Jennifer Follstad Shah, Joe Fargione, Scott Collins

This is the Workshop report for sessions 11 and 12, Sat. Sept. 23. Please forward a confirmation of this arrival. Thanks, Alvin Smucker and Chuck Rice Co-organizers

Summary of workshop held during ASM 2006

This file contains a summary and participant list for an LTER All Scientists Meeting working group entitled Plant community responses to nitrogen enrichment: Results from a cross site synthesis. The working group took place on Saturday Sept. 23, 2006.

I am not sure if Morgan Grove sent this in or not, and so to be safe I am attaching a copy of the final report that came from the Disproportionality workshop held at the ASM. Thanks, Pete

This document contains notes from the LTER ASM 2006 Biogeochemical Complexity working group.

Report: Working Group – Ecosystem Response to Changes in Climate in Cold Regimes 21 Sept, 2006

list of attendees, notes from presentations and notes from discussion for workshop on Ecosystem Informatics Education and Research, which took place on Friday morning 9-12, Sept 22, 2006