Documents — Committee Documents

Report from the LTER Coordinating Committee Meeting Held at the Central Arizona – Phoenix LTER site April 24-25, 2001

LTER Databits – Information Management Newsletter of the LTER Network – Spring 2001- Featured in this issue: A Custom data management system, International LTER Information Management Workshop, The NASA Scientific Data Purchase Program, and Web-based data entry for dummies.

Executive Committee Meeting, April 24, 2001, Central Arizona – Phoenix

Education: Schoolyard LTER, April 2001 presentation of the Education Committee to the Coordinating Committee.

Schoolyard Education of the Long-Term Ecological Research Program (SLTER)- Report to the LTER Coordinating Committee – Spring 2001

The National Advisory Board met for the second time 7-8 February 2001 in Arlington, VA.

Minutes of the 2001 LTER National Advisory Board meeting in Arlington, VA, February 7-8, 2001.

The full LTER Technology committee, consists of one representative per LTER site. The committee met in 1999 to review in general, current technology needs across the Network. The 1999 LTER committee report contained a number of recommendations and provided the background for this meeting. In January of 2001, John Vande Castle, the committee chair, organized a subset of the committee as a working task group to revisit LTER technology issues. This report is a summary of discussions from the meeting of this group was held at Archbold Biological Station, January 7-9, 2001.

At the 2000 All Scientists Meeting, a subgroup of the education committe representing interests directly related to the Schoolyard LTER program, met and subsequently submitted a request to hold a post-ASM2000 workshop. This workshop was held Dec 1 and 2 at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Vision Statement for the LTER Climate Committee

LTER Databits – Information Management Newsletter of the LTER Network – Fall 2000 – Featured in this issue: According to most of the plenary addresses of the 2000 All Scientists Meeting in Snowbird, Utah, ecological researchers must think outside the box. Sociologists, modelers, climatologists, paleoecologists, remote sensing specialists, and science administrators all emphasized the need of ecological scientists to become comfortable with multiple disciplines and define questions that are significant in each of these fields simultaneously.

Coordinating Committee Meeting, August 3, 2000 Snowbird, Utah

August 1, 2000 LTER Executive Committee Meeting Minutes from Snowbird, Utah (all scientists meeting)

LTER Databits – Information Management Newsletter of the LTER Network – Spring 2000

List of international projects associated with your LTER

TOWARD A UNIFIED UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN ECOSYSTEMS: INTEGRATING SOCIAL SCIENCE INTO LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH In pursuit of a thorough, scientific understanding of the world around us, biological ecologists and social scientists have each worked within their own academic disciplines to develop a wide range of empirical studies, methods, and models to identify key drivers, processes, and controls that regulate human behavior and interactions with the environment.

Representatives from 20 of the 21 LTER sites attended and actively participated in the 1999 LTER Information Managers Meeting, in Spokane, Washington, August 4-6, 1999. The Cedar Creek LTER was not represented for the second year in a row.

Minutes of the Coordinating Committee Meeting Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire October 1, 1999

LTER Databits – Information Management Newsletter of the LTER Network – Fall 1999 – Featured in this issue: an overview of the recently funded NSF/KDI Biodiversity partnership plans in addition to a variety of approaches to metadata, conferencing, visualization and training. DataBits continues as a semi-annual electronic publication of the Long Term Ecological Research Network. It is designed to provide a timely, online resource for research information managers and to incorporate rotating co-editorship. Availability is through web browsing as well as hardcopy output.

The suggestion to NSF to create a special RFP for LTER education was not accepted.

First Meeting of the Committee on Scientific Initiatives (CoSI) August 9, 1999 Spokane, Washington

Announcing the First Annual Meeting of the THE NORTH AMERICAN REGIONAL LTER NETWORK to be held in conjuntion with the ESA Annual Meeting 7 August 1999 Spokane, Washington

Cooperation in Long Term Ecological Research in Central and Eastern Europe. Proceedings of the ILTER Regional Workshop 22-25 June, 1999 Budapest, Hungary. Edited by Kate Lajtha and Kristin Vanderbilt Oregon State University

The LTER Coordinating Committee held its April 22-24 meeting at the Rio Grande Plantation in Puerto Rico. Hosted by the Luquillo LTER site, this year’s spring meeting initiated a new format designed to foster increased focus on specific LTER issues and challenges.

LTER Databits – Information Management Newsletter of the LTER Network – Spring 1999

Report from the LTER Climate Committee to the LTER Coordinating Committee Meeting Luquillo, Spring 1999. Prepared by David Greenland. (April 2, 1999)Doug Goodin (KNZ) will represent the Climate Committee at the Luquillo Meeting.

The LTER Technology committee met at the San Diego Supercomputer Center on March 26 and 27, 1999 to review LTER technological developments and provide recommendations for the LTER Network on needs for current and new technologies. Recommendations for LTER Technology Development related to National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Information Technology (IT) issues, other potential funding opportunities.

Graduate Student Committee Spring 1999 Report Christy Tyler (VCR) and Greg Hoch (KNZ) — Co-chairs

Report from the Spring 1999 Education Committee Meeting

This is the report of the LTER National Advisory Board which met at the Sevilleta LTER site, New Mexico, on December 10 and 11, 1998. Membership of the Board is as follows: Ann Bartuska, U.S. Forest Service; Jim Beach, University of Kansas; Mary Firestone, University of California, Berkeley; Bill Heal, United Kingdom; Jim MacMahon, Utah State University; Bill Murdoch, University of California, Santa Barbara; Paul G. Risser (chair), Oregon State Univiversity; and Rebecca Sharitz, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory.

1998 presentation: Access to data and metadata distributed throughout collaborating national and international research sites is the focus of a development effort to support ecological research. The U.S. LTER (Long Term Ecological Research) Network informatics group is developing, along with national and international partners, a Network Information System (NIS). The mission of the working group is to design and develop a modular framework that builds on existing site functionality.

The Vision Statement for the LTER Technology Committee

The Vision Statement for the Socio Economic Research committee: LTER Network

The Vision statement for the Grad Student Committee as of 1998

Vision Statement for the Information Management group: LTER Network Ecological Informatics: Finding Answers for Long Term Ecological Research

The Vision Statement for the LTER Publications Committee, as of 1998

The Vision for International LTER Network

The Vision Statement for the LTER Education Committee

El Sistema de Informacion LTER Reda: Un Estructura para Manejo de Informacion Ecologica. Presentation by James Brunt.

November 1-6. 1998. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico -This symposium provided an excellent opportunity for interactions among U.S. LTER, Canadian, and Mexican scientists for the facilitation of a North American Regional LTER Network. Excellent papers were presented by the following LTER scientists on behalf of LTER:

MINUTES of the Long Term Ecological Research Coordinating Committee Meeting: Northern Temperate Lakes LTER Program, Madison, Wisconsin October 16-18, 1998 Chair: James Gosz Science Theme: Linking natural and socioeconomic processes: long term human interactions with the landscape. Notes of John Vande Castle, last edited 11/1/1998

LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM Spring 1998 Coordinating Committee Meeting Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado April 23-24, 1998

The annual LTER Information Managers Meeting was held July 30-August 1, 1998, hosted by the new, urban Baltimore LTER Site. Twenty of the 21 sites were represented with Cedar Creek not represented.

LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM Fall 1997 Coordinating Committee Meeting The Upham Hotel Santa Barbara, California October 24-25, 1997

Information Managers (IM’s) from the LTER Network met for a one-day annual business meeting at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, on August 7, 1997.

LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM Spring Coordinating Committee Meeting H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon April 24-25, 1997

The 1996 LTER Information Managers meeting was held at the Archbold Biological Field Station, Lake Placid, Florida, October 31 – November 3, 1996.

Notes from the Fall 1996 LTER Executive Committee Meeting

FALL 1996 LTER COORDINATING COMMITTEE MEETING Minutes

LTER Executive Committee Meeting June 6-7, 1996 LTER Network Office Seattle,Washington – Here is a short summary of the general Exec. Committee. meeting (not necessarily in the order of occurrence).