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This supplemental request by the Andrews Forest LTER is being made to advance long-term environmental science through the broader and more consistent applications of internet connectivity. Although a T-1 (1.54Mb/s) is considered to be the minimum speed for effective data communication to field sites, our site has only had access to basic telephone service that allows data communications at a maximum rate of 56Kb/s.

Submitted to the National Science Foundation March 11, 1999 Central Arizona – Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Project Nancy B. Grimm, Co-Project Director, Charles L. Redman, Co-Project Director SUMMARY OF PROPOSED EFFORT The establishment of the Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER introduces many new opportunities and as many new challenges to the extant LTER network.

Current Status of Internet Access for Coweeta Schoolyard LTER Program— Our experiences in this first year (1998-99) of our Coweeta Schoolyard initiative were quite positive. All five teachers involved (3 at 6th grade, 1 at high school, and 1 at community college) gave positive reviews of the activities and had overwhelmingly positive responses from the students involved.

Over the last ten years the Harvard Forest has developed an integrated and cross-disciplinary research and educational program involving researchers and students from across the northeastern U.S. that focuses on the response of forest ecosystems to disturbance and stress resulting from natural and anthropogenic processes.