Documents — Executive Board

The 2026-2035 LTER Network Strategic plan focuses on identifying and prioritizing the activities that require a network. This is not a plan for site activities, nor even a plan for the Network Office. Instead, we started with the question: “What questions can we answer...

The bylaws revision was approved March 4, 2026, by affirmative vote of 24 out of 26 active lead principal investigators. Changes in this revision: Due to changes in the way that the U. S. National Science Foundation (NSF) manages the LTER Network, with more emphasis on...

Minutes of the LTER Executive Board Meeting on April 5, 2019. Discussion topics include planning for the 2019 Science Council Meeting and Lead PI Meeting, planning for science council meetings going forward, the role of conceptual models in proposals.

At the annual Science Council Meeting LTER committees submit reports of their activities for the year. Each committee report is filed individually under the appropriate committee. This page provides a set of links to the 2019 reports for the convenience of Science Counc...

Agenda LTER Network Communications (Coordination) Office Proposal update Science Council planning Approval of to sign on to the FAIR Principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) as a member of the Enabling FAIR Data Project Information Management update En...

No December meeting was planned. January meeting couldn’t be scheduled until early February. Agenda Role of the Executive Board Chair going forward NCO proposal update 40-year review information request Plans for Science Council meeting...

Agenda Plans for 2019 Science Council meeting Information Managers update Environmental Data Initiative update No plans to meet in December To discuss in January: the role of the Executive Board Chair going forward...

Agenda All Scientists’ Meeting Follow Up May Science Council (discussion deferred until November) ILTER (AccelNet plans) LTER-CZO proposal update 2019 NSF Symposium plans New Program Managers email list 40 year self-study committee...

Agenda Review All Scientists’ Meeting PI meeting agenda Nominate and approve 40-year Self-Assessment Committee Ensuring a productive discussion at the October Science Council Meeting

Discussion Topics: History of past decadal reviews How to approach 40-year self-assessment discussion Science Council Agenda at ASM EDI update IM update

Discussion Topics: ASM Plans Agenda for Science Council at ASM Letter from Dan Childers Request for a letter of commitment from ADVANCE Geo Request for a letter of commitment from Becky Irwin for a Bee Monitoring Network...

Discussion topics: Site renewals, Science Council meeting structure and purpose, All Scientists’ Meeting plans, Sexual Harassment subcommittee

Includes minutes of LTER Executive Board and Science Council meetings, May 2018 at North Temperate Lakes LTER.

NSF Symposium update, Science Council chair, ASM Social Media Policy, Comment on NSF’s proposed rule on sexual harassment?, Science Council format

Plans for All Scientists Meeting and Science Council Meeting

Discussion Topics: Affiliate site status, NSF-LTER Symposium, 2018 Science Council,  2018 All Scientists Meeting update, committee reports

Discussion topics: Network Communications Office mid-term review, LTERNET website launch, 2018 Science Council, request for affiliate status

Discussion Items for December 20, 2017 Meeting Sexual Harassment Policies (10 minutes) Science Council 2018 (20 minutes) Date: May 15-18 at NTL Recruiting suggestions for program committee We discussed many possible changes to the structure of this meeting at this year&...

No meeting of the LTER Executive Board took place in September 2017.

Agenda for 2017.03.27

 

Agenda for 2017.03.27

Approved meeting notes from executive board meeting of February 28, 2017. Agenda topics incuded:

• Science Council
• Discussion about the nature of the network
• LTER-NEON meeting
• Committee Structure

Approved notes from LTER Executive Board meeting of February 2, 2017.  Topics:   What is the Nature of Our Network,; Governance tasks to be taken on by NCO, Mini-symposium update, science council planning, EDI update 

Approved notes from LTER Executive Board meeting of December 20, 2016. 

Topics:

 

• Planning for NSF Site review discussion
• Mini-symposium
• Science Council
• EDI update
• Governance tasks that could move to NCO

Notes from EB meeting of 20 September, 2016

Resolution EB#105-R-03The RIPE NCC Executive Board approves the draft RIPE NCC Charging Scheme 2017 and tasks the Management to prepare this document for the RIPE NCC General Meeting in May 2016.

Notes from the LTER Executive Board meeting of February 15, 2016.

Notes from Executive Board meeting of March 4-5, 2015.

Notes from Executive Board meeting of January 13, 2015.

Notes from December 2014 LTER Executive Board meeting

Notes about changes in LTER RFPs – October 30, 2014.

Notes from LTER Executive Board Meeting – October 7, 2014

Notes from LTER Executive Board Meeting – September 11, 2014.

LTER Executive Board Minutes

Executive Board Minutes from 19 September 2013

Executive Board Minutes from 30 July 2013