SATURDAY, September 18 LTER 2000--PAST & FUTURE
AFTERNOON: Arrivals, Registrants Check-in (Chapel)
EVENING:
5-6 PM Graduate Student Mixer (Chapel)
6-7 DINNER (Dining hall)
PRESENTATIONS (Auditorium)
7:30-8:30
James T. Callahan HOW THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY & THE NATIONAL SCIENCE
Env. Bio. FOUNDATION (NSF) CREATED THE LTER NETWORK: 1965-1993
NSF
Jerry F. Franklin LTER 2000--THE NEXT DECADE
LTER Coordinating
Committee Chair
8:30-9:30 MIXER (Chapel)
SUNDAY, September 19 INTERSITE & SYNTHETIC RESEARCH
7-8 AM BREAKFAST (Dining hall)
MORNING SESSION: (Auditorium, 8:00 AM-12:00 PM)
Co-Chairs: John Hobbie (Arctic Tundra LTER) &
Janet Fischer (North Temperate Lakes LTER)
PRESENTATIONS
8-8:15 Jerry Franklin (LTER Coordinating Committee Chair)
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
8:20-9 Bruce Hayden (Virginia Coast Reserve LTER)
ECOSYSTEM CONTROLS ON CLIMATE & ATMOSPHERIC LINKAGES
BETWEEN ECOSYSTEMS
9-9:40 Susan Stafford (H.J. Andrews LTER)
INTEGRATION OF SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION MANAGEMENT &
LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH
9:40-10:20 Mark Harmon (H.J. Andrews LTER) & the LIDET Team
LONG-TERM DECOMPOSITION EXPERIMENTS (LIDET)
10:20-10:40 BREAK (East & West Auditorium foyers)
10:40-11:20 James Brown (Sevilleta LTER)
INTERSITE COMPARISONS FOCUSING ON ANIMAL SPECIES,
GUILDS & FUNCTIONAL GROUPS
11:20-12PM SITE BITE PRESENTATIONS--ANTARCTIC & ARCTIC SITES
McMurdo Dry Valleys: Robert Wharton
Palmer Station: Robin Ross
Arctic Tundra: John Hobbie
Bonanza Creek: Roger Ruess
12-1 LUNCH (Dinning hall)
Graduate Student Lunch Discussions
AFTERNOON & EVENING
1-4 PM POSTER SESSION (Chapel)
NETWORKING RESOURCES DEMONSTRATIONS (including LTER
Long-Term Data Catalog, Bibliographic Database,
Gophers, Interactive "Collage" Software)
4-6 PM FREE TIME
CLIMATE COMMITTEE MEETING (Auditorium break-out room,
to be posted)
INFORMAL PRESS MIXER
Invited presenters, designated site representatives
and press representatives. (Location to be announced)
6-7 PM DINNER (Dining hall)
7-9 PM WORKSHOP (Auditorium)
DEVELOPMENT OF COMMONALITY IN LONG-TERM DATASETS
MONDAY, September 20 INTERSITE & SYNTHETIC RESEARCH
7-8 AM BREAKFAST (Dinning hall)
MORNING SESSION: (Auditorium, 8 AM-12 PM)
Co-Chairs: David Foster (Harvard Forest LTER) &
Win Everham (Luquillo LTER)
PRESENTATIONS
8-8:40 William Parton (Central Plains LTER)
SIMULATING CLIMATIC CHANGE IMPACTS FOR THE
TERRESTRIAL LTER SITES; THE CENTURY MODEL RESULTS
8:40-9:20 Edward Rastetter (Arctic Tundra LTER)
RECONSTRUCTING HISTORICAL CHANGES IN CARBON STORAGE
IN TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS: USING A GENERAL
ECOSYSTEM MODEL TO COMPARE LTER SITES.
9:20-10 Jack Webster (Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory LTER)
ORGANIC MATTER PROCESSES IN STREAMS IN THE
UNITED STATES
10-10:30 BREAK (East & West Auditorium foyers)
10:30-11:10 John Moore (Central Plains LTER)
BIODIVERSITY WITHIN SOIL FOOD WEBS
11:10-12 PM SITE BITE PRESENTATIONS--TEMPERATE FOREST SITES
Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest: Tim Fahey
Harvard Forest: Richard Boone
Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory: Judy Meyer
H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest: Art McKee
Luquillo Experimental Forest: Robert Waide
12-1 LUNCH (Dining hall)
AFTERNOON & EVENING
1-4 PM WORKSHOPS: (Auditorium break-out rooms; locations
to be announced & posted daily)
ROOTS: TURNOVER, LONGEVITY AND MINIRHIZOTRON
TECHNIQUES
ORGANIC MATTER IN STREAMS
EL NINO
FOREST CANOPY RESEARCH
CENTURY--GEM MODELING COMPARISONS
AD-HOC Workshops to be announced & posted.
4-6 FREE TIME
5-6 SOCIAL (Chapel)
6-7 DINNER (Dining hall)
7-9 COMMITTEE MEETINGS & WORKSHOPS (Auditorium break-out
rooms; locations to be announced)
DATA MANAGERS COMMITTEE
GRADUATE STUDENT COMMITTEE
AD-HOC Workshops to be announced & posted
TUESDAY, September 21 LTER--NEW DIRECTIONS
7-8 AM BREAKFAST (Dining hall)
MORNING SESSION: (Auditorium, 8 AM-12 PM)
PRESENTATIONS
8-8:20 Jerry Franklin (LTER Coordinating Committee Chair)
INTRODUCTION TO LTER 2000
8:20-9 Richard Berk (Department of Sociology, University
of California at Los Angeles)
URBAN ECOSYSTEMS & THE HUMANS IN THEM
9:-9:40 Robert Costanza (Chesapeake Bay Land-Margin Ecosystem
Research Program site)
ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
9:40-10:20 Penny Firth (National Science Foundation)
COORDINATION OF FEDERAL AND EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCES RESEARCH: LESSONS AND OUTLOOK
10:40-11:20 William Rees (Community & Regional Planning,
University of British Columbia)
ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS & HUMAN CARRYING CAPACITY:
MEASURING THE SUSTAINABILITY GAP
11:20-12:10PM SITE BITE PRESENTATIONS--AGRICULTURAL, COASTAL,
LAKES, ALPINE SITES
Kellogg Biological Station: Kay Gross
North Inlet: James Morris
Virginia Coast Reserve: Bruce Hayden
North Temperate Lakes: John Magnuson
Niwot Ridge: Tim Seastedt
12:10-1 LUNCH (Dining hall)
AFTERNOON & EVENING
1-4 PM WORKSHOPS (Auditorium break-out rooms; location to be
announced & posted)
SOIL BIODIVERSITY
ALKALINITY BUDGETS
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DISTURBANCE
LTER & NASA/EOS COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH
CROSS-SITE STUDIES OF FOOD WEBBS IN THE LTER NETWORK
LITTER DECOMPOSITION
AD-HOC Workshops to be announced & posted
4-6 FREE TIME
5-6 SOCIAL (Chapel)
6-7 PRIME-RIB DINNER (Vegetarian selection available,
Dining hall)
8:30 LTER Coordinating Committee Meeting (Auditorium,
CLOSED SESSION)
WEDNESDAY, September 22 LTER--EXPANDING PERSPECTIVES
7-8 AM BREAKFAST (Dining hall)
MORNING SESSION: (Auditorium, 8 AM-12 PM)
Co-chair: Diana Freckman (McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER) &
Steve Wondzell (H.J. Andrews LTER)
PRESENTATIONS
8-8:40 Hank H. Shugart, Jr. (Virginia Coast Reserve)
ECOSYSTEM MODELS: LTER--INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS
8:40-9:20 Elizabeth Holland (Niwot Ridge LTER)
BUILDING A TRACE GAS NETWORK FOR THE UNITED STATES
9:20-10 John Magnuson (North Temperate Lakes LTER)
COMPARATIVE LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY OF DISPARATE LTER
ECOSYSTEMS: SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY IN GREENNESS FROM
FULL LANDSAT SCENES
10-10:30 BREAK (East & West Auditorium foyer)
10:30-11:10 David Kingsbury (Human Genome Project, Johns Hopkins
University)
A MODEL OF SHARED INFORMATION SERVICES FOR A
DISTRIBUTED RESEARCH COMMUNITY
11:10-12 PM SITE BITE PRESENTATIONS--DESERT & GRASSLAND SITES
Jornada: William Schlesinger
Sevilleta: Bruce Milne
Central Plains: Ingrid Burke
Konza Prairie: Alan Knapp
Cedar Creek: David Tilman
12-12:15 Mary Clutter (Acting Deputy Director & Assistant
Director, BIO Directorate National Science
Foundation)
THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES DIRECTORATE
THE ROLE OF LTER
INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS
THE CURRENT BUDGET ENVIRONMENT
12:15-1 LUNCH
AFTERNOON & EVENING
1-4 PM WORKSHOPS (Auditorium break-out rooms; locations to be
announced & posted)
REGIONAL RESEARCH
TRACE GAS FLUXES NETWORK
CARBON DYNAMICS IN AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS: CONTINENTAL-
SCALE PATTERNS AND LANDSCAPE-SCALE PROCESSES
USING WIDE-AREA INFORMATION SERVICES
MAPPING SOIL PROPERTIES AT LARGE SPATIAL SCALES
AD-HOC Workshops to be announced & posted
4-5 FREE TIME
5-6 SOCIAL (Chapel)
6-7 DINNER (Dining hall)
7:30-9 Workshop Reports & Summaries (Auditorium)
Timothy Seastedt (Niwot Ridge LTER), Moderator
THURSDAY, September 23 DEPARTURES, All Scientists Meeting participants
INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT begins (Location to be announced)
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