Documents — Committee Documents

Report of the LTER Technology Committee, Spring 2006 John Vande Castle, Committee Chair

LTER Network Social Science Committee Report Submitted by: Morgan Grove & Ted Gragson May 12th, 2006

LTER Network Information System Advisory Committee (NISAC) Report to the Coordinating Committee (CC) 10 May 2006 Prepared by NISAC

US-LTER International Committee Report to the LTER Coordinating Committee, Spring 2006 meeting May 15, 2006 Prepared by Patrick Bourgeron and Steve Hamburg for the US-LTER International Committee

Graduate Student Committee Report at the CC meeting, Cedar Creek, Minnesota, May 16, 2006 Submitted: May 11, 2006

Summary of Information Managers Committee (IMC) activities since LTER CC meeting at VCR, September 2005. Prepared by IMExec 8 May 2006.

Status of the NISAC committee as of May 15, 2006. Submitted by James Brunt.

List of all executive committee members and dates served.

Report of Activities of the LTER Executive Education Committee May 2006. Submitted by: M. Elser (CAP LTER), Education Committee co-chair.

Featured in this issue: Welcome to a robust issue of the Spring 2006 DataBits’!!! We had many submittals this issue and the articles really show the diversity of this group. We hope you have as much fun reading this issue as we did putting it together. As many of the LTER sites have EML documents being generated, the focus of the IM community has shifted from generating EML to working with EML. There is a series of four articles in this issue of DataBits’ that explore multiple approaches with differing timeframes that IM’s are developing that will lead to better data discovery within EML.

Minutes of the LTER Executive Committee Meeting, March 8-9, 2006 Arlington, VA

Report of the NAB from 29 September 2005 meeting, submitted by Peter Arzburger on behalf of the National Advisory Board. Report finalized October 5, 2005

Reference document for formal reviews of LTER sites. April 12, 2005. Created by LTER Information Managers Committee

James Brunt, Peter McCartney, Stuart Gage, and Don Henshaw, October 2004, in a response to a request from the LTER Network Information System Advisory Committee; Text amended April 13, 2005 to reflect approval of recommendations by the LTER CC.

The annual LTER Information Managers Meeting was held August 4-7, 2005 in Montreal, Canada and was attended by representatives from 25 of the 26 sites, members of the IT group from the LTER Network Office, and IT partners ( link to participant list). The agenda included updates on current projects (items 2-6 below), working group discussions (7-13), and election of new IMExec members (14), as well as a video conference with Henry Gholz and Liz Blood at NSF. Submitted by Wade Sheldon

Minutes of the LTER Coordinating Committee Meetings Cape Charles, VA September 19-21, 2005

Report from a meeting of LTER social science representatives in Athens, GA, August 3-5, 2005. Submitted by Ted Gragson, J. Morgan Grove, and Dan Childers.

Dates: 30-31 January 2001 Location: LTER Network Office From: K.Baker, J.Brunt, D.Henshaw This meeting was originally proposed as a post-Snowbird meeting by Baker and Henshaw, but was instead supported by the Network Office as part of the on-going IM mission.

Featured in this issue: After most of the LTER sites have produced their Ecological Metadata Language (EML) packages up to Level 3, the subject still occupies a main line in our agendas. Not only do we want to share our methods to achieve this task with other communities, but we want to study the lessons that have we learned in the process.

Education Committee Report to the Coordinating Committee. September 2005. Submitted Robert Bohanan

NISAC Report to the LTER Coordinating Committee 9 September 2005 Prepared by Don Henshaw for the Network Information System Advisory Committee

LTER Network Social Science Committee Report Morgan Grove & Ted Gragson September 12, 2005

LTER Information Managers Report to the Coordinating Committee Prepared by IMExec 10 September 2005

LTER Graduate Committee Chair Report CC meeting Fall 2005 Submitted by Chelsea Crenshaw and Tiffany Troxler Gann

Article in GRID today by Trish Barker of NCSA talks about LTER partnership in Grid Pilot Study. August 8, 2005.

Report of the LTER Technology Committee, Fall, 2005. Submitted by John Vande Castle, Committee Chair.

Draft title for series: The Schoolyard Series of NSF’s Long Term Ecological Research Network. Identifies the major LTER network themes for development in the children’s book series.

Description of how to use LTER Children’s Book Series in the classroom.

Publications Committee Report Fall 2005. Committee: Phil Robertson (chair), Alan Knapp, Dave Foster, John Magnuson, Thomas McOwiti

Climate Committee Report, 2005 Fall Coordinating Committee Meeting at VCR LTER. Submitted by Douglas G. Goodin, Committee Chair.

PDF Version of LTER Network Data Access Policy Revision 3, Data Access Requirements, and General Data Use Agreement Revised by James Brunt, Peter McCartney, Stuart Gage, and Don Henshaw, October 2004, in response to a request from the LTER Network Information System Advisory Committee, approved by the LTER Coordinating Committee April, 2005.

Minutes from Spring 2005 Coordinating Committee Meeting in Key Largo, Florida, April 6-7, 2005.

2005 Spring Coordinating Committee report, Key Largo, FL Submitted by Douglas G. Goodin, Committee Chair

This policy is retained for historical purposes. It has been replaced by 2012 and 2017 revisions to the policy.

US-LTER International Committee Report to the LTER Coordinating Committee, Spring 2005 meeting 30 March 2005 Prepared by Patrick Bourgeron for the US-LTER International Committee

LTER Information Managers Report to the Coordinating Committee Prepared by IMExec 29 March 2005 Summary of Information Managers Committee (IMC) activities since LTER CC meeting at BNZ / ARC, August 2004.

Report of the LTER Technology Committee, Spring, 2005 to the LTER Coordinating Committee John Vande Castle, Committee Chair

Graduate Student Committee Report at CC meeting, Key Largo, FL, April 6-7, 2005. Submitted: March 24, 2005

Featured in this issue: Following years of efforts in developing a Network Information System (NIS), LTER information managers report on two of its completed components: CLIMDB/HYDRODB and Network All-Site Bibliography. More recently, the LTER sites started the process of exporting their metadata databases into Ecological Metadata Language (EML), a metadata specification developed by the ecology discipline and for the ecology discipline (http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/eml/).

A process for proposing synthesis modules for the LTER Network Information System (NIS). March 18, 2005.

NISAC Report to the LTER Coordinating Committee 18 March 2005 Prepared by James Brunt for the Network Information System Advisory Committee

Presentation by Brian Kloeppel, Coweeta LTER, University of Georgia, October 15, 2004.

Presentation by Brian Kloeppel, Coweeta LTER, University of Georgia, October 14, 2004.

The annual IM meeting was held July 28-31, 2004 in Portland, Oregon and was attended by representatives from 23 of the 26 sites, members of the IT group from the LTER Network Office, and IT partners (link to participant list). The meeting agenda included presentations from recent projects (items 1-2 below), working group discussions (3-8), appointment of a new DataBits editor (9), and election of new IMExec members (10). Special emphasis was given in the meeting to the product-oriented working groups.

Linda Powell describes new IM System tools at FCE LTER. Dan Higgins and Matt Jones explain the Kepler system for scientific workflows. Teresa Valentine introduces the Watershed DB. Also, EML in Latin America and new forest service database.

Minutes from Fall 2004 Coordinating Committee Meeting in Fairbanks and Toolik Lake, Alaska, August 16-22, 2004.

The LTER Climate Committee Report to the 2004 Fall Coordinating Committee Meeting, Fairbanks, AK. Submitted by Douglas G. Goodin, Committee Chair.

The LTER Education Committee Report to the Fall 2004 Coordinating Committee meeting at Fairbanks, AK. Submitted by Robert Bohanan, Committee Chair, 18 August 2004.

Technology Committee Report from the 2004 Fall Coordinating Committee Meeting, Fairbanks, AK. Submitted by John Vande Castle, Committee Chair

The LTER Information Managers Report to the Fall 2004 Coordinating Committee meeting at Fairbanks, AK. Prepared by IMExec, 10 August 2004. Summary of activities since LTER CC meeting at SBC, April 2004.