Documents — Planning Documents

Statement of Task: The overall goal of the Task Force was to develop findings and recommendations pertinent to the Next Generation of the LTER Network Office (NG-LNO), with particular attention to potential future developments in information technology. The specific objectives were to: 1) Consider the potential range of network-level services and activities and recommend general... Read more »

University of Washington 1989 Strategic Plan

Report of the 2010 External Advisory Panel review of the Operational Plan CI components

LTER Strategic Communication Plan

The 2011 Strategic and Implementation Plan resulted from an extensive planning process that ran concurrently with the 30-year review of the Network. The attached document summarizes and then details a set of Network strategies for building on past successes. It prioritized activities in five key areas: Research, Education, Communication, Information Management, and Coordination with other... Read more »

The Strategic and Implementation Plan (SIP) for the Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER): Research and Education 2011. This document summarizes and then details strategies for building on past success to realize the vision of the LTER. Activities are prioritized in five key areas: Research, Education, Communication, Information Management, and Coordination with other Networks. The time frame for this plan is five years, to be updated annually.

LTER Synthesis Portfolio October 2009

ISSE Summary Brochure

The final release of the Decadal Plan for LTER – reformatted for book publication with citation as LTER Network Publication #24.

First public release of The Decadal Plan for LTER.

Integrative Science for Society and Environment: A Strategic Research Initiative – Final Version

LTER Cyberinfrastructure Strategic Plan version 4.2 – Version to be approved by the LTER Executive Board in August 2007.

This is Version 4 of the LTER Cyberinfrastructure Strategic Plan released for general comments from the community on May 10, 2007 and representing the completed work of the Cyberinfrastructure Supplement to the Planning Grant.

Presentation of LTER Network Office Strategic Plan. March 1, 2005.

Presentation of LTER Network Office Implementation for Strategic Plan. March 1, 2005.

The US LTER network has grown rapidly over the past 20 years, both in size and in the scope of its activities. This growth is generally welcomed and is viewed overall as a mark of the success of the network and its individual sites and investigators. From an initial group of 6 LTER sites and a few dozen investigators in 1980, the network has grown to 24 sites in 2001, involving the work of hundreds of scientists, students, and teachers from scores of institutions at all levels of research and education. The LTER enterprise is unique in the ecological community.

Executive Summary – Beginning in 1998, the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network formally expanded its education efforts to include K-12 students and teachers mainly through the Schoolyard (SLTER) program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Each LTER site designed its own program in relation to the ecological research conducted at the site and the particular need and resources of its local school district and community.

The Vision statement for Microbial Ecology in LTER

Executive Summary – Beginning in 1998, the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network formally expanded its education efforts to include K-12 students and teachers mainly through the Schoolyard (SLTER) program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Each LTER site designed its own program in relation to the ecological research conducted at the site and the particular need and resources of its local school district and community.

This report follows the Shugart Committee Report which identified the scientific issues being addressed by the LTER sites and made recommendations for network-wide capabilities to address those issues. The following is a summary of those issues and recommendations to lead to the charge given to the Technology Committee (TC).

The Vision Statement for the LTER Education Committee

The Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program is a highly successful endeavor in the collection and analysis of scientific data on ecological processes, especially over longer temporal and larger spatial scales. The LTER Network currently consists of 18 site-based projects that span a broad array of ecosystems, and a collective, multi-site program in data collection and sharing, experimentation, and synthesis.

1990s Global Change Action Plan. 1990. In recognition of the critical importance of ecological research in understanding, predicting and ameliorating global change, a group of scientists representing 25 research sites met in November 1989 to consider how a network of ecological sites might contribute to research on global change. Network Office Publication Number 4. 1990s Global Change Action Plan: Utilizing a Network of Ecological Research Sites. November 1989, Colorado.

This documents the Strategic Planning Exercise practiced by the LTER Network in 1989

REPORT OF THE NSF ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL PLANNING FOR LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROJECTS – (The “Shugart Report”)