Awards

The Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program has transformed itself from a loosely affiliated collection of sites to an integrated network. Recent accomplishments include: development of an effective electronic communication system; creation of data catalogs and shared data sets, including comprehensive satellite imagery for the network of sites; stimulation of cross-site syntheses and experiments; and linking… Read more »

9634135 Gosz This project will support the Network Office for the Long-term Ecological Research Network to continue critical activities including communication, data management, data dissemination, and technological advances. The Network Office will form a consortium with the San Diego Supercomputer Center, the Santa Fe Institute, the Center for Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University, and… Read more »

The LTER Network Office (NET) was transferred to the University of New Mexico in 1997. NET objectives have been to provide basic services to LTER, facilitate communication among LTER sites and between LTER and the broader environmental sciences community, promote new technologies, and provide leadership in data and information management. Since NET moved to Albuquerque,… Read more »

The Long-Term Ecological Research Network Office, or LNO, provides critical services in support of the research and education goals of the LTER network of 26 field research projects, represents the network in its interactions with other scientific networks and centers, facilitates the operation of the network as a cohesive research entity, and fosters new, broadly-based… Read more »

The Georgia Coastal Ecosystems (GCE) LTER program, located on the central Georgia coast, was established in 2000. The study domain encompasses three adjacent sounds (Altamaha, Doboy, Sapelo) and includes upland (mainland, barrier islands, marsh hammocks), intertidal (fresh, brackish and salt marsh) and submerged (river, estuary, continental shelf) habitats. Patterns and processes in this complex landscape… Read more »

Intellectual Merit The Georgia Coastal Ecosystems (GCE) LTER is located along three adjacent sounds on the Atlantic coast and includes both intertidal marshes and estuaries. Long-term drivers of climate change, sea level rise and human alterations of the landscape will cause transitions in dominant habitat types (state changes) within the GCE domain by changing the… Read more »

The Georgia Coastal Ecosystems (GCE) Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program, based at the University of Georgia Marine Institute on Sapelo Island, Georgia, was established in 2000 to study long-term change in coastal ecosystems. Estuaries (places where salt water from the ocean mixes with fresh water from the land) and their adjacent marshes provide food… Read more »

This project will continue the research activities of the Hubbard Brook Long-term Ecological Research project (HBR-LTER), expanding upon the original theme, the effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on the structure and function of northern hardwood forest ecosystem. Through an integrated program of monitoring and process-level studies the investigators will examine four principal categories of… Read more »

9810221 Fahey This project will continue the Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in an effort to improve general understanding of the mutual influences of environment, disturbance, biological activity and the flows of energy and materials in forest landscapes. This integrated program of long-term monitoring and process-level studies at Hubbard Brook… Read more »

With its half-century history of ecological research, the Hubbard Brook (HBR) site has evolved into a model LTER gathering unique and extremely valuable records of long-term biogeochemical cycling in forested watershed ecosystems. The overarching goal of HBR is to increase understanding of the ecological patterns and processes that characterize forested landscapes in the northeastern USA,… Read more »