Working Group Type: Research

We request funding to complete a peer-reviewed manuscript establishing a framework for successful graduate student cross-site socio-ecological research. This manuscript will build upon ideas generated at the LTER 2009 All Scientists Meeting in Estes Park, CO.

We propose two workshops to synthesize data from four coastal LTER sites (PIE, VCR, GCE, FCE) and from four non-LTER sites with the goal of developing a proposal to validate the Morris et al. (2002) model describing tidal marsh response to sea level rise.

MIRADA-LTERS is an NSF-funded cross-site comparative microbial inventory project that seeks to document, describe and discover baseline and novel diversity in the bacterial, archaeal and eukaryal domains of life across 13 of the aquatic LTER sites. We request funds to bring 10 data managers/collaborators together to attend a 2 day workshop in Woods Hole sometime… Read more »

I would like to propose a 2-day meeting in 2010 bringing together scientists from any and all LTER sites interested in comparative soil organic matter analysis. One day would be devoted entirely to planning cross-site comparative analyses and potential publications, and the other day would be devoted to discussions of the various tools and techniques… Read more »

A follow up workshop for a synthesis and modeling paper that builds on a workshop held at the LTER ASM 2009 meeting in Estes Park, CO (“Quantifying carbon and nutrient transformations in aquatic ecosystems at regional to continental scales in response to environmental change”).

We propose to use existing LTER data to create a synthesis paper addressing how intra-annual rainfall variability affects productivity and relative abundance of plant species in communities across the range of ecosystems in the LTER.