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| Posted on Friday, August 01, 2008 - 10:52 AM |
| In October 2007 the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF) our decadal plan, in which we laid out goals for the Network in three major areas: research, education, and cyberinfrastructure (http://www.lternet.edu/dp). The plan’s goals are ambitious but realistic, forward-looking, and directed towards taking the Network to the next level of synthetic science. Three years of meetings, workshops, and collaborative writing went into the plan, and its delivery to NSF marked a milestone in providing the larger scientific community our vision of where LTER science is headed. |
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| Posted on Friday, August 01, 2008 - 10:47 AM |
| The LTER Network Office (LNO) exists primarily to support the objectives of the LTER Network. As the objectives of the LTER Network evolve through the decadal planning process, the support activities of the LNO must also evolve and grow to meet new expectations. To assure that the LNO successfully adapts to evolving Network goals, the LTER Executive Board (EB) conducts an annual evaluation of the performance of the LNO. Part of this evaluation involves a survey that is administered to representatives of the 26 LTER sites. |
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| Posted on Friday, August 01, 2008 - 10:34 AM |
| Although it is widely recognized that the Earth’s environment is changing, and that long-term data are needed to assess the rate and direction of change, to distinguish directional trends from short-term variability, and to forecast future responses, the accessibility of long-term data beyond the original user has historically been limited. The EcoTrends project, now nearing completion of an important step in its development, is a network-level resource that will allow cross-site and network-wide comparisons that are critical to addressing ecological problems relevant to the LTER Decadal Plan. |
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| Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 05:01 PM |
| Over three years of effort by hundreds of LTER scientists went into the new Decadal Science Plan, submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF) October 1 and released to the public early December. The plan maps out the Network’s science agenda for the next 10 years. Entitled “Integrative Science for Society and the Environment: A Plan for Research, Education, and Cyberinfrastructure in the U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research Network,” it makes an ambitious call for research that extends the Network’s foundational strength in ecology and environmental biology to also embrace the social sciences relevant to human-environment interactions. |
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| Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 - 05:00 PM |
| When world famous adventurer Steve Fossett’s plane disappeared in the maze of peaks and valleys of the Nevada desert, the world was watching. To search the 17,000 square mile area where the plane is believed to have disappeared, multiple satellites combined with an online database allowed the public to examine photographic surveys for evidence of the crash. This unprecedented effort presents a new direction for wireless technology, and related applications are being used to help LTER researchers address large-scale ecological questions. |
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| Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 - 02:48 PM |
| An innovative new seminar titled Cyberinfrastructure in Science was taught this spring at the LTER Network Office (LNO) at the University of New Mexico (UNM). The virtual seminar was funded by the National Science Foundation’s Office of Cyberinfrastructure and taught at three institutions in New Mexico and Arizona using videoconferencing technologies. The three institutions UNM and the Universities of Arizona (UA) and Northern Arizona (NAU) offered the course for credit to graduate students, but a broader group of faculty and researchers also participated just to learn the information. |
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| Posted on Thursday, December 14, 2006 - 12:59 PM |
| Governance is not a topic that most people think about often. For more than a year, however, it was the subject of the Governance Working Group (GWG), a diverse team of LTER and non-LTER researchers brought together to study this critical issue as part of LTER Planning Grant activities. The goal of the planning effort is to create a framework to increase the scale and scope of activity needed to address the ecological “Grand Challenges” identified by LTER (Collins, 2004). |
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| Posted on Thursday, December 14, 2006 - 12:28 PM |
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| Posted on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 - 04:53 PM |
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| Posted on Thursday, May 04, 2006 - 03:39 PM |
| The Ecological Society of America’s (ESA) Strategies for Ecology Education, Development and Sustainability (SEEDS) Program provides a variety of opportunities—campus chapters, research fellowships, meeting travel awards, and field trips—to stimulate and nurture the interest of minority undergraduates in ecology. Established in 1996, over the last decade the program has made great strides in increasing the representation of minorities in ecology. Since 2003, the LTER network has had a growing role in this success. |
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