The LTER Network has grown from a handful of independent sites to a true network with cross-site experiments, synthetic science, coordinated data management, and standard community practices. LTER community members managed a great deal of that growth, with modest financial support from the LTER Network Office in the form of working group funds. The record of past working groups is – in many ways – a record of the focus and priorities of the LTER Network through time.

Working Group TitlePrincipal InvestigatorTypeAward YearFinal Report
Defining the Schoolyard LTER Program: Priorities, Infrastructure, and Communications2000
LTER-based Tropical Coastal Research Across the Caribbean Basin, 2000
Ecological Network Analysis for Cross Site Comparisons: Developing the Network of Users, 2000Final Report (PDF)
Sense-of-Place Attitudes in the World’s Temperate Lake DistrictsRichard Lathrop, 2000Final Report (PDF)
A Cross-Site Synthesis of Biotic and Abiotic Agents of Decomposition and SOM Dynamics in LTER Sites, 2000Final Report (PDF)
East Asia-Pacific Organic Matter Decomposition Processes WorkshopEun-Shik Kim, 2000Final Report (PDF)