Documents — Committee Documents

The necessity of intersite research has driven the LTER mandate since intersite workshops in the early 1980’s. Since then the LTER data managers have been focusing on facilitating this research. Recently, the maturation of environmental information management, and advances in technology provide an impetus to accomplish more effectively the long-standing goal of facilitating intersite research (Stafford, et al. 1994). Although computers have come a long way, the fundamentals of managing research information and developing an appropriate system for management have remained relatively stable.

LTER Executive Committee Meeting Notes 4/24/96 – John Vande Castle – FLED dataset issues: Kay Gross discussed the status of the FLED report – it is out and available on-line via the ESA home page.

LTER Executive Committee Meeting – Washington DC January 11, 1996 Current budget scenarios from UNM and UW were distributed and logistical information taken care of, including the need to compress the meeting agenda to one day due to the weather.

LTER Executive Committee Meeting – Cedar Creek LTER – 10/19/95

Proceedings of the 1995 LTER Data Management Workshop, Snowbird, UT.

Meeting took place June 6 and 7, 1995, at the University of Washington, College of Forest Resources. In attendance were Bruce Hayden, John Hobbie, Bob Waide, James Gosz, Jerry Franklin and John VandeCastle.

LTER Coordinating Committee Meeting Virginia Coast Reserve LTER Site April 21-22, 1995

Minutes from the April 1995 LTER Executive Committee Meeting.

LTER/EXEC Phone Conference Meeting Notes of 3/15/95 – John Vande Castle

LTER Executive Committee Notes-January 13, 1995-Washington D.C. A proposal is on the table to modify the LMER program into LTER. This will be initiated by a workshop lead by Hobbie and Hayden, to formulate a working plan.

LTER Coordinating Committee Meeting October 19-21, 1994 Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory

LTER Executive Committee Meeting – Coweeta – 10-19-94 Jerry Franklin, Bruce Hayden, Fred Swanson, John Hobbie, John Vande Castle

Proceedings of the 1994 LTER Data Management Workshop held September 21-24 in Seattle Washington.

Minutes from the June 1994 Executive committee meeting.

LTER Databits – Information Management Newsletter of the LTER Network – Spring 1994

LTER Executive and Coordinating Committee Meeting 4/21/94, Washington, DC

Minutes of January 29-30, 1994 LTER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING Washington DC

Fall 1993 LTER Coordinating Committee Meeting minutes, Estes Park, CO, September 1993

Proceedings of the 1993 LTER Data Management Workshop held July 23-31 in Madison WI.

LTER Databits – Information Management Newsletter of the LTER Network – Summer 1993

LTER Executive Meeting Notes From Washington D.C. Meeting Nov 5-7 1992

This issue has a good balance of technical and non-technical features. There are reports on the use of interactive data access and data management policies within the LTER network. There are also plenty of hints on how to better use the computers at your site, including software reviews and technical hints. Finally, there are articles on conducting GPS campaigns and some solutions to common problems in scientific information management. There have also been some superficial format changes to DATABITS. Its now created using Framemaker software on a Sun Workstation.

Proceedings of the 1992 LTER Data Management Workshop held August 7-9 in Honolulu Hawaii

LTER Executive Committee Meeting June 18-20 1992, Washington, D.C.

LTER Coordinating Committee Meeting Trout Lake Station, Boulder Creek, Wisconsin February 29 – March 1, 1992

LTER/SCEC Meeting Minutes, October 19, 1991 Hog Island, Virginia Coast Reserve and Washington, D.C.

LTER/SCEC Meeting Minutes, October 19,1991 Hog Island, Virginia Coast Reserve and Washington, D.C.

1991 LTER Data Management Meeting San Antonio, TX; 1-3 August 1991 Prepared by William Michener (NIN) and James Brunt (SEV) 25 scientists (at least one from each LTER site) attended the annual meeting.

LTER Databits – Information Management Newsletter of the LTER Network – Summer 1991

LTER Databits – Information Management Newsletter of the LTER Network – Spring 1991

LTER Coordinating Committee Meeting Minutes 4/21/91 Seattle Washington

Minutes from the Spring LTER Executive Committee Meeting, Washington, DC, February 1991

LTER Coordinating Committee Meeting Minutes September 28, 1990 Estes Park, Colorado

LTER Databits – Information Management Newsletter of the LTER Network – Fall 1990 Archival storage at LTER sites, using PC-NFS and a review of two optical disks. Reports on the LTER Data Managers Meeting(s) and the ESA Long-Term Ecological Research Section, news from the sites and two new columns: GIS corner and I learned it the hard way.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1990 LTER DATA MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP (Held in Snowbird, Utah July 26-28, 1990)

1990 Summer Databits newsletter from the LTER Information Managers. The agenda of the upcoming data manager’s meeting, a report on the most recent LTER Coordinating Committee meeting, reports from the sites and some hints on using Unix and MS-DOS.

This is the premier issue of an LTER-wide version of DATABITS. Its purpose is to disseminate information relevant to data manangement between data
managers and PI’s within the LTER network. DATABITS can only be as successful as members of the LTER community make it. If you come across a
tidbit of news, a good software package or a hardware hint that might be of some general interest, please send a paragraph or two to the editor for
inclusion in the next DATABITS.

The August 1989 LTER Data Managers’ workshop focused on developing solutions and avenues of communication to solve commonly experienced problems and meet future technological challenges.

LTER/CC Meeting Minutes April 13 – 14, 1989 Albuquerque, New Mexico

LTER/CC (Coordinating Committee) Meeting November 3-4, 1988 Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan

From minutes of the November 1988 CC meeting regarding Data Managers’ Meeting 1988 (Sacramento, CA).