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IINSIDE THIS ISSUE: Top Stories: Strategic Planning for LTER SITE NEWS: SGS Symposium; MCM -Exploring an Ecosystem Entombed in Ice Milestones; LUQ – Take a Journey to El Yunque; PAL – On-line Journaling and Data Bridges the Learning Gap to the Antarctic. NETWORKING: LTER ASM 2003; Implementing EML At LTER Sites; National Invasive Species Database; Agricultural Landscapes in Transition; Ecoinformatics Training for Field Stations; Journals Feature LTER Network; The Value of LTER Site Augmentation. EDUCATION: Education Update.

Featured in this issue: Theresa Valentine and Don Henshaw discuss their approach to the marriage of tabular and spatial data at the Andrews LTER. Barrie Collins gives his take on ArcIMS, ESRI, and his management philosophy. We are exposed to adding internet spatial visualization to environmental projects when Peter McCartney discusses three internet map applications produced by The Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University. Also in this issue a move towards maximizing the spatial aspect of the LTER Network is taken with a new Network-wide survey.

Featured in this issue: Matt Jones explains the grid computing concept and describes a major new grid computing initiative for ecologists; Bill Michener fleshes out the context of that initiative with a sketch of SEEK, a wide-reaching grant for information technology in ecology. Peter Arzberger and others give us an insider’s look at an international grid computing effort for environmental science. Chad Berkley and Peter McCartney bring us up to date on the latest tools for doing ecology on the grid.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Top Stories: Strategic Planning for LTER SITE NEWS: SGS Symposium; MCM -Exploring an Ecosystem Entombed in Ice Milestones; LUQ – Take a Journey to El Yunque; PAL – On-line Journaling and Data Bridges the Learning Gap to the Antarctic. NETWORKING: LTER ASM 2003; Implementing EML At LTER Sites; National Invasive Species Database; Agricultural Landscapes in Transition; Ecoinformatics Training for Field Stations; Journals Feature LTER Network; The Value of LTER Site Augmentation. EDUCATION: Education Update.

Featured in this issue are two articles about wireless technology, a description of a minimalist approach to creating dynamic web pages to display database content, and a discussion about the implementation of ArcIMS by a seasoned ArcIMS user. Other articles describe the innovative GCE Matlab Toolbox and the future of the All-Site Bibliography.

Inside This Issue: TOP STORIES – LTER Education Symposium At NSF, In Memorium, LTER Celebrates 20th Anniversary – SITE NEWS, HBR ‘Science Links’ BES Investigator Accepts Presidential Award, Hi-res Satellite Data, Art McKee Retires – NETWORKING – LTER Spatial Data Workbench, SDSC-LTER Collaboration, SCI2002 Conference, Engaging Local Stakeholders in Ecological Monitoring, Urban LTER Sites Gear up for Renewal Process, Microbial Research, Workshops Further Wireless Effort, Ecoinformatics Training in Mozambique, DIRT: Extending an LTER Project to ILTER, NEON Spells Opportunity, Eco-hydrology insig

Ecological Metadata Language (EML): Augmenting Research Tools and Capabilities, a quick introduction to Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT), a review of software tools for working with Extensible Markup Language (XML), an article on metadata management and what role Morpho and Metacat could play in an overall information management strategy at a LTER site, a review of several Email client applications, and an article about using the LTER LDAP Server.

LTER Symposium At NSF… Fire Research at Shortgrass Steppe… New Facility Upgrades at Coweeta… International Cooperation at McMurdo… Graduate Student Research Integral to Bonanza Creek LTER … Ecological Cascades Follow Mammalian Herbivory in Alaska… Reconsidering nitrogen cycling in high-latitude ecosystems… Whole-lake Removal of Exotic Species… All LTER Education Summit… Network Information System Progress… Ecological Metadata Language (EML) for the LTER Network… International LTER

Welcoming Sonia Ortega to the Network Office… Graduate Student Research at the Konza and Shortgrass Steppe LTER Sites… FCE Graduate Student Research in the Everglades… Central Arizona-Phoenix 200-point survey… Jornada LTER and the Chihuahuan… Desert Nature Park… Georgia Coastal Ecosystem LTER’s PILOTS Program Takes off… Luquillo LTER, Virginia Coast Reserve LTER and Konza Prairie SLTER news… Palmer LTER Outreach Program… New Project for Palmer Researcher… Information Management Training… Past, Present, and Future of Metadata in the LTER Network… ILTER Meeting Report…

DataBits: An electronic newsletter for Information Managers. 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.

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.

Newsletter of the Long-Term Ecological Research Network – A review of cross-site activities resulting from the LTER All-scientiests Meeting… Niwot Publishes Third Volume in LTER/OUP Synthesis Series… Prarie Dogs Run the Show at Shortgrass Steppe LTER… Research Activities at Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER… Eleven-site ANPP Study Demonstrates Value of Network Science… List of Cross-site Research and Synthesis Post-ASM 2000… Summary of the Schoolyard LTER Working Group Plans and Projects… International Network-to-Network Collaboration Summary of the Science Policy Forum…

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.

Newsletter of the Long-Term Ecological Research Network – The Y2K ASM Meeting… New personnel At LTER Net… Studying Rain Chemistry at LUQ… Science + Management=solutions at LUQ LTER… Formulating Arid-land Water Budgets in the Middle Rio grande Basin… Long Term Ice Breakup Study has Global Scope… The Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity… Landscape Ecology for the Rest of Us… Introducing the LTER-Hyper-SRB Project…

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

Newsletter of the Long-Term Ecological Research – Konza Prairie LTER’s Award Winning Grad. Students… Hubbard Brook LTER Begins 50-year Acid Rain Study… Palmer LTER in the News… New Tundra Cam at Niwot Ridge LTER… Introducing the New Coastal LTER Sites (Florida Coastal Evergaldes, Georgia Coastal Ecosystems, Santabarbara Coastal)…Intersite Research Among LTER’s Stream Ecologists… Remote Sensing Roundup…

Newsletter of the Long-Term Ecological Research Network – Memorial to Tom Callahan… Spy Satellite Imagery Available… ARC Scientiests Develop Test Method… Changing of the Guard at Jornada LTER… Boreal Forest Research at BNZ LTER… Proposal Writing Workshop For Education… Soil Standards Published… Graduate Committee Report… KDI Grant Funded… Graduate Student Committee Report.. Project FIRST at OBFS Sites Begins Metadata Revisited… X-Site Stream Study… Japan/US LTER Student Exchange… North American Regional Network Holds First Meeting…

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.

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

Newsletter of the Long-Term Ecological Research Network – LTER Fares Well in NAB Report… A New Format for the Coordinating Committee Meetings… Adding Outreach to the LTER Agenda… The Schoolyard LTER Project… The Mission of the New LTER Social Sciences Committee… Building Bridges-A Consortium Approach to Ecological Research… A Report from the First Meeting of the New LTER Technology Committee… NTL LTER Studies Invasive Exotic Species… New additions to the Network Office Staff Increase Computing Power… Data Standards Reach New Level… IM.NET Exchange… ILTER News…

Newsletter of the Long-Term Ecological Research Network – Hurricane George hits Luquillo… Coweeta Regionalization Study… Effects of Rising Seas on Waterbirds (VCR)… Qualifying Physical Forcing on Biological Systems (PAL)… Cross Site Soil Study… First LTER Education Workshop… Annual Information Managers Meeting… Latin American LTER IM Meeting… Development of Central European LTER… International Student Exchange… LTER Scientists Attend North American Science Symposium… Warra-The first Australian LTER Site… The Middle East Sustainable Land Initiative…

Newsletter of the Long-Term Ecological Research Network – Network Office Survives Transition… Cross Site Research From ARC and NWT… Remote Jensing From JRN… PAL Sets Sail a New Research Vessel.. Profiles of New Urban and Land Margin Sites… Biodiversity Project.. Information Management.. New Education Committee Forms.. Teacher get Hands-on Experience at MCM… LTER Teams up With the Santa Fe Institute… Asian Grad. Students Visit AND… Update of ILTER Developments… Plans for Collaborations Between ILTER and GTOS…

Perspectives on the LTER Program… Proposed LTER, LMER, and JGOFS Merger… Caroline Bledsoe: Contributions as LTER Research Coordinator… New Journal Entitled Ecological Issues… Jerry Melillo Nominated by President to Fill Environmental Position at OSTP… New Graduate Student Committee Chair… H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest… Luquillo Experimental Forest… Retention of Trifluoroacetate (TFA) in LTER Soil… Studies Initiated at Coweeta as a Result of Hurricane Opal… LTER System is the Model for Ecology Course at University of Georgia…

LTER NETWORK NEWS – Newsletter of the Long-Term Ecological Research Network Issue 19, Spring/Summer 1996. Harvard Forest, Hubbard Brook, International, Publications, Site News, Students

LTER NETWORK NEWS – Newsletter of the Long-Term Ecological Research Network Issue 18, Fall/Winter 1995-6

LTER NETWORK NEWS – newsletter of the Long Term Ecological Research Network, Issue 17 Spring/Summer 1995

Page 1 Reorganizing LTER–Jerry Franklin retires as LTER Chair Page 2 Judy Meyer Names ESA President; EPA Awards Grants for Indicator Development at LTER & LMER Sites Page 3 National Biological Survey–Ronald Pulliam; Mary C. Barber Named SBI Executive Director Page 4 Central Plains Experimental Range, Understanding the origin and sustainability of shortgrass steppe ecosystems–Deborah Coffin Page 6 Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, Examining Ecosystem Response to Disturbance in a Landscape Context–Judy L. Meyer & Wayne T.

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

Bonanza Creek, Cedar Creek, CO2 Workshop, LTER Bibliography, LTER in Hungary, LTER-NADA, Publications, Soils Survey, Students, TFA Study

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

LTER International Summit…Introducing the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis… Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems LTER/IGBP Workshop… The IGBP-BAHC Weather Generator Program… The United Kingdom Environmental Change Network… LTER-NASA Collaboration Update… Environmental Information Management and Analysis Symposium… In Memorium: John Gordon Torrey… LTER Watershed Modeling Workshop… The Long-term Decomposition Team Experiment: An Update… The Virginia Coast Reserve LTER Site… The Jornada Experimental Range LTER Site… NSF Funds New Antarctic LTER Site… 100-Year Flood Eve

Freshwater Initiative… A LTER Office Year… SBI Implementation Plan… LTER Network Support System… CERN-LTER Collaboration Advances… KNZ-HBR Collaborative Study… VCR Sustainability Workshop… 1993 LTER All Scientists Meeting… Gordon Conference… Arctic Tundra LTER… BNZ Early Winter… AND Linking Pattern… LUQ Disturbance Impacts… Recent Publications… Calendar

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.

Synthesis in LTER… NSF Reorganizes Biology Directorate… LTERnet Access On the Road… LTER Data Management Survey… Electronic Discussion Lists… Watershed Modeling Workshop… Sevilleta LTER-Khoros Group Collaboration… Regional Climate Centers… LTER Climate Committee Activities Summary… Long-term Ecological Research in Israel… Kellogg Biological Station LTER Site… Konza Prairie LTER Site… Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

U.S.-China Exchange: Laying the foundations for collaboration… In Memoriam: William Eugene Odum… Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute… Harvard Forest LTER Site… Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest LTER Site…LIDET Update… The ESA-Long-term Studies Section Collaboration… GPS Workshop and Field Campaign… LMER Program Meeting… New LMER Site Competition… SCS-LTER Collaboration

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

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

Arctic site, All Scientists Meeting, Calendar, LTERNET Expansion, New RS/GIS Laboratory, Publications

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.

LTER-USGS Program Proposed… Data Management in LTER… The LTER All Scientists Meeting… The HJ Andrews Experimental Forest LTER… North Temperate Lakes LTER Site… The Sevilleta LTER Site… USFS Forest Health Monitoring Program… The Land Margin Ecosystem Research Program…

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.

Hurricane Hugo: Rebuilding and Research at Two LTER Sites… North Inlet Marsh-Estuary LTER Site… The Role of LTER Sites in Global Change Research… Possible Antarctic LTER Site by September 1990… The UNESCO/MAB Global Change Meeting… Data Management Update… John Vande Castle Joins LTER Network Office… The Coweeta LTER Site… The Niwot Ridge/Green Lakes Valley LTER Site… The Jornada Experimental Range… The Evolution of a Network… GIS Workshop… International LTER Teleconference… HBR and HFR Fieldtrip Notes… An Earthquake at the SEV LTER Site… Introducing the New Pacific Northwest Natural Resourc

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.

Intersite Models, Central Plains site, Hubbard Brook site, W.K. Kellogg site, New Mexico Field Trips, Calendar

Developing a Functional LTER Network… News from ARC VCR and BNZ LTER Sites… ENSO and Climate-1989… Upcoming Workshop on Tree mortality… Are Deserts More Variable Than Lakes… EPA Plans for Initiatives in Ecological Research… The Six-year Review and Renewal Process… Funding Opportunities for Long-term Research…

Introducing Three New LTER Sites: LUQ HFR and SEV… News from HJA LTER Site… North Inlet Site… Cedar Creek LTER Site… LTER Network in the People’s Republic of China… The Issue of Scaling Up… Data Managers Workshop… Climate Committee News

Konza Prairie LTER Site… Experimental Lake Acidification at North Temperate Lakes LTER Site… Regional Modeling of Grassland Biogeochemistry… News from Niwot Ridge/Green Lakes Valley LTER Site… The Jornada LTER Site… The Coweeta LTER Site… The LTER Network… Meeting on Global Vegetation Change… Variability in North American Ecosystems…

LTER Network and Major Biomes… Introducing New LTER Sites: ARC BNZ HBR KBS VCR… The NASA FIFE Research Program on the Kansas State University LTER Site… Long-term Studies Section for the ESA… Cary Conference

LTER NETWORK NEWS – What is LTER?… Perspectives on LTER… News From The Sites… CDR CPR (SGS) CWT HJA JRN KNZ Large River LTER Program NWT North Inlet NTL