The LTER IM GIS working group is requesting funding for an IM buy-out for the completion and implementation of a LTER network basemap and Interactive Cartographic Almanac (ICA). The GIS working group was asked by Robert Waide, LNO Executive Director, to develop a dynamic mapping tool for the creation of network-wide maps specifically for the… Read more »
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LTER Metabase Software-as-a-Service development
This proposal outlines a project to use the GCE Metabase Metadata Management System (MMS) as a foundation for developing a software-as-a-service solution that would serve the needs of LTER sites that are currently generating EML using dataset -instance-based tools such as Morpho and the needs of sites that need to rapidly ingest and upgrade their… Read more »
Leveraging PASTA and EML-based Workflow Tools for LTER Data Synthesis
Abstract The NIS PASTA framework is nearing its first production release in December 2012, and LTER sites have made great progress over the past several years in getting EML-described core data online. LTER site Information Managers and others in the eco-informatics community have also made progress in developing or adapting software to perform analytical workflows… Read more »
Atmospheric correction to LTER Landsat catalog
Goals: The goal of this project is to build on the previously funded work of Kyle Cavanaugh to complete the atmospheric corrections to the LTER Landsat catalog. Atmospheric corrections are required before any higher level data products (e.g. maps of land cover change, biomass, NDVI) can be created. The corrected scenes can then be used… Read more »
Cross site analysis and synthesis of arts and humanities engagement within LTER
Goals and Background. Engagement of arts and humanities in LTER programs has grown substantially over the past few years, to the point where now more than half of the LTER sites have operating or planned programs. This emergence has been the source of much excitement within and outside of the LTER Network. Four sites have… Read more »
A synthesis of LTER community data to test metacommunity theory under different ecological conditions
The Objectives of the effort is to: (1) Assess our new generalized metacommunity model (Fig 1b), which is based on previous work (Sokol et al. 2011), and provides a mechanism to use the axes that define metacommunity state space (Fig 1a) to predict metacommunity diversity. We will use data packages from the LTER NIS to… Read more »
Cross site analysis and synthesis of the role of vegetation, sediment supply, sea level rise and storminess on intertidal coastal geomorphology
Summary: Intertidal coastal environments are prone to changes induced by sea level rise, increase in storminess, and anthropogenic disturbances. It is unclear how changes in external drivers may affect the dynamics of low energy coastal environments because there are multiple evidences that their response might be non-linear, with thresholds and discontinuities. Process based modeling of… Read more »
Beyond the Numbers: Supporting an increasingly diverse LTER community
Mention “diversity” to most ecologists, and they start talking about species richness. Indeed, LTER leads the way investigating how biodiversity enhances ecosystem productivity, efficiency, and stability. The LTER Network has an opportunity to likewise take a prominent leadership role fostering a diverse scientific community and supporting the full inclusion and participation of all its members…. Read more »
Linking aquatic and soil organic matter across ecosystems through characterization of optical properties
Background: The range of sites within the LTER network provides an excellent opportunity to understand aquatic and soil OM (organic matter) dynamics in diverse ecosystems in order to develop overarching hypotheses about OM dynamics on a larger scale in the context of the global carbon cycle. Dissolved organic material (DOM) is a major pool of… Read more »
Coastal Wetland Ecology and Geomorphology
Goals. I propose a working group on coastal wetland ecology and geomorphology that will meet four times before April 2013 to develop and submit a Macrosystems Biology proposal to NSF. This working group proposal grew out of a working group (Modeling Wetland Processes) organized by S. Pennings and A. Burd at the 2012 LTER ASM,… Read more »